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Tanweer, Mohammad Sidique Khan’s right-hand man in the bomb plot, was open about his support for the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, saying he regarded the hijackers as martyrs.
A British national of Pakistani descent, he lived with his parents in a semi-detached house in Beeston. He was a student until 2004 and worked as an assistant in the family fish and chip shop for a few hours a week.
Despite this, he reportedly had an estate valued at £121,000 after taxes and debts.
(from The Guardian July 6th.2006)

Hip Hop founder gets prison time

NEW YORK, July 6 (UPI) — 1970s black consciousness activist, Gil Scott-Heron, was sentenced to two to four years in Queens Supreme Court for violating a plea deal on a drug charge.

Heron violated the deal by leaving the drug treatment center he was placed in, the New York Post reported Thursday.

The 56-year-old musician, poet and singer, regarded as a founding father of Hip Hop, stirred the political pot with his 1970s hit songs “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” “Johannesburg,” about apartheid in South Africa, and “The Bottle.”

Heron said the in-patient rehab clinic stopped giving him his HIV medication and since Heron is HIV positive, he left. The prosecution noted Heron once left treatment for an appearance with singer Alicia Keys.

thanks to David Meltzer