(BBC) Two men who plotted to attack Jews in Greater Manchester in what could have been “the UK’s most deadly terrorist attack” were caught by an undercover operative who put himself in “significant danger,” police said.
Walid Saadaoui, 38, arranged to smuggle four AK-47 assault rifles, two handguns and 900 rounds of ammunition into the country.
Saadaoui worked together with 52-year-old Amar Hussein, and another man called Farouk, whom they believed shared the same extreme ideology.
But Farouk was actually an undercover operative.
Who was the operative?
Farouk was authorised to make contact with Saadaoui after detectives linked several Facebook pages he had set up using [fake] names to spread Islamic extremist views, Greater Manchester Police said.
