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Last updated on March 5th, 2018 at 01:45 pm

So much for poverty causing terrorism:

A suicide bomber who killed eight people at Aldgate Tube station on July 7 left £121,000.

The origins of Shehzad Tanweer’s riches are unknown as the 22-year-old terrorist worked part time at his family’s chip shop in Beeston, Leeds.

That’s around $A285,000. The little bastard killed people as they were on their way to work.

UPDATE from an English government insider:

I don’t believe that Shehzad Tanweer ever had assets of over £120,000.

This is just a guess, but what probably happened was that the senior members of the family will have bought two or three terrace houses in Beeston or Holbeck or Wortley or wherever and registered them in the name of Shehzad Tanweer at the Land Registry. This sort of manoeuvre means that the “beneficial owners” can hide behind the “legal ownership” of whoever is on the register.

This is useful for tax purposes and also for fiddling Housing Benefit payments where members of the same extended family rent each other’s houses (although I am certainly not suggesting this happened in this case). This normally works well but if the “legal owner” unexpectedly vaporises himself the “beneficial owners” have to go to the inconvenience and expense of going to the Probate Court to get their hands back on their property.

Despite Beeston being near the bottom end of the Leeds housing market, terrace properties can still sell for around £90,000.

Posted by Tim B. on 01/05/2006 at 09:34 PM
    1. Clearly, though, fish and chips are a root cause of terrorism.

      Posted by PW on 2006 01 05 at 11:25 PM • permalink

 

    1. That’s, what, about $200,000 American?  Are fish and chips the new crack or something?

      Posted by Achillea on 2006 01 05 at 11:37 PM • permalink

 

    1. “little bastard”?  Isn’t that a little insensitive?

      Posted by HisHineness on 2006 01 05 at 11:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. Who said he was little?

      Posted by waussie on 2006 01 06 at 12:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. You see?  You see?  If it hadn’t been for work all those people would have been home safe!  It all comes down to capitalism!Someone get Bob Ellis on this!

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 06 at 12:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Drugs.

      Muslims are tremendously ‘flexible’ toward those drug dealers who happen to be fellow Muslims.

      Heroin out of the Bekaa Valley has financed Hizbollah for decades.

      Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 01 06 at 12:20 AM • permalink

 

    1. Is it possible for this cash to be soaked up by his victims in civil suits?  The turd’s familiy should be left with just a stale cracker afterwards by all rights.

      Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 01 06 at 12:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. Jesus saves but Mohammed invests …

      Posted by Stevo on 2006 01 06 at 12:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. #7 I agree…at the very least they should freeze he’s assets and investigate it.

      Posted by Anthony_ on 2006 01 06 at 12:55 AM • permalink

 

    1. In the U.S., the law suit would be a lay down hand.  The 120,000 pounds would go in a minute.  If he were living at home, you might get a plaintiffs’ shark to file on the parents for negligent supervision, i.e., failure to stop their little hell-spawn.  Serve them right.

      Posted by stuartfullerton on 2006 01 06 at 12:58 AM • permalink

 

    1. Sure, he had a lot of money, but he could have been poor.  He was probably saving up to buy a dirty bomb.

      Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 01 06 at 01:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hussein used to pay the Palestinian suicide bombers US$25,000; that’s about £14,200.  Looks like the price for a good suicide bomber has gone up.  Is that due to a lack of supply, or higher quality recruits?

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 06 at 01:45 AM • permalink

 

    1. Maybe these ‘martyrs’ get paid in advance for their filthy work. Remember Saddam used to hand over much lucre to the families of suicide bombers.
      Perhaps it is the custom and the rat’s families should have to prove where that money came from.
      Then be stripped of everything they own and sent back to their homeland.

      Posted by waussie on 2006 01 06 at 01:49 AM • permalink

 

    1. He might have been an Islamic scholar.  Over at Radio Japan on Thursday, in a conversation of two cultural diplomacy professors, one asked how to deal with Islamic scholars if Japan is to be a mediator between Islam and the West, when they’re such loud pig-headed morons at conferences, and the other seemed to flail around for a while and then settled on more tea ceremonies and cameras. http://rhhardin.home.mindspring.com/japancut.diplomacy.ram

      The loud pig-headed moron effect causes terrorism.

      Posted by rhhardin on 2006 01 06 at 04:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. That’s some chip shop. Maybe they expanded operations into catering for a niche market abroad. And then decided to focus on their core business.

      Posted by geoff on 2006 01 06 at 04:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. Suicide bomber are paid money? Does this surprise anyone? The Israelis have known this for a year, that’s why they destroy suicide bombers’ houses. They are often the biggest due to the payout the family receives. Another way to stop the suicide bombers is to stop the flow of cash, some want attack until the family is taken care of.

      Posted by cjblair on 2006 01 06 at 05:29 AM • permalink

 

    1. Whats the bet the little turd spent his last few days drinking and whoring because soon hed be a “martyr”.
      Similar to the 9/11 scum.
      Be worth a few brothels, nightclubs and pubs in their area checking their old secuiry tape in the 2 weeks leading up to the bombings.

      Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 01 06 at 05:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. PIMF bah!

      Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 01 06 at 05:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. Terrorists have a word for the amount of cash supplied to the local financier to fund destructive activities. Can’t remember it right now, but $A285,000 is a shaheed load of money!

      Posted by blogstrop on 2006 01 06 at 05:37 AM • permalink

 

    1. Not as much fun, but ahs anyone stopped to think whether or not this this the cash value of say, his share in the family chip shop?  Not exactly realisable in that case.

      Posted by entropy on 2006 01 06 at 05:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. Money and education are root causes of terrorism. Right?

      Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 01 06 at 06:28 AM • permalink

 

    1. Education * Islam = Terrorism.

      Why?  Education teaches (is supposed to) you about reality.  Islam teaches you about how the world should be a paradise for Muslims.

      Islamist Terrorists are merely motivated by Faith to destroy the evidence that Islam only creates shitholes on earth by attempting to remove civilisation.

      Posted by Rob Read on 2006 01 06 at 07:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hey they’re not stupid and neither are the Labor/Greens/Democrats.They know the best way to undermine Western democrat society is via drugs.
      BTW the Democrats as a party in Tassy ceased to exist two days ago.Any survivors must campaign as an independent.

      Posted by crash on 2006 01 06 at 07:15 AM • permalink

 

    1. o/t sadly,Ariel Sharon has been taken back to theatre for more surgery according to the 7.30(biased and dirty)report on aunty.
      It seems to me that he could be slipping away.
      Aunty abc begins with a Palestinian view “he is an evil man who doesn’t want peace..he is a war criminal.”
      To Israeli bloggers- what a tragic day.
      Here is a man who has literally given his life for his country…

      Posted by crash on 2006 01 06 at 07:37 AM • permalink

 

    1. Poverty, occupation and oppression can all be dismissed as ‘root causes’ simply by pointing to all of the impoverished, occupied or oppressed people who do not and would not blow themselves up.

      For example, Aboriginals and Tibetans.
      Similarly, the Mongolians have been impoverished, occupied and oppressed simultaneously over time, and not blown themselves up.

      The easiest way to dismiss the ‘root cause’ (and dispel root-cause myths about Israeli treatment of Palestinians as well) is to acknowledge that not one Christian Palestinian has ever blown himself up.

      Ever.

      Muslims on the other hand, are carrying out thousands of such attacks in Israel and worldwide.

      Rich, poor, oppressed or liberated, black, white or brown, Middle Eastern, English or even Thai, the one thing they all have in common is which way they face when praying.

      Fixed. Use Preview, please. -The Mgmt.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 01 06 at 08:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Sorry… Fixed the link above:

      Poverty, occupation and oppression can all be dismissed as ‘root causes’ simply by pointing to all of the impoverished, occupied or oppressed people who do not and would not blow themselves up.

      For example, Aboriginals and Tibetans.
      Similarly, the Mongolians have been impoverished, occupied and oppressed simultaneously over time, and not blown themselves up.

      The easiest way to dismiss the ‘root cause’ (and dispel root-cause myths about Israeli treatment of Palestinians as well) is to acknowledge that not one Christian Palestinian has ever blown himself up.

      Ever.

      Muslims on the other hand, are carrying out thousands of such attacks in Israel and worldwide.

      Rich, poor, oppressed or liberated, black, white or brown, Middle Eastern, English or even Thai, the one thing they all have in common is which way they face when praying.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 01 06 at 08:14 AM • permalink

 

    1. The money could have been the funds for the attack; perhaps he “forgot” to return the excess?

      Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 01 06 at 09:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. mummy & daddy evading tax & claiming benefit, plus a donation from hizbollah, is my bet

      Posted by KK on 2006 01 06 at 10:49 AM • permalink

 

    1. If this is the explanation, you got to give it to him for covering all bases. First he screws the government with this tax and welfare dodge. Then he screws his family by killing himself, leaving them to untangle the mess. Finally he screws the public by killing them.

      Is there anyone he won’t toss over to get to his 72 virgins? Was he that desperate for a date?

      Posted by tim maguire on 2006 01 06 at 11:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. Runaway link in post #25!

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 06 at 11:29 AM • permalink

 

    1. I fixed it. Remember, folks: PIYF.

      Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 01 06 at 11:47 AM • permalink

 

    1. Re: #25. Just a suggestion, but Mr. Lewis should try http://TinyURL.com. It resolves his format-destroying URL to:

      http://tinyurl.com/9uzrv

      Posted by ErnieG on 2006 01 06 at 11:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. British Government Insider please.

      Posted by Rob Read on 2006 01 06 at 12:02 PM • permalink

 

    1. Normally I don’t advocate lawsuits, but in this case, I agree with #7.  Sue the little bastard’s estate until every last penny has been handed over to the survivors and families, and/or their lawyers.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 01 06 at 01:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. One for the lawyers.

      Is it possible to bring an action for damages, pain and suffering etc against a dead person’s estate?

      Seems wrong that his rellies should inherit all this hard to explain wealth.

      Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 01 07 at 01:00 AM • permalink

 

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