Lamine Adam, Cerie Bullivant and Ibrahim Adam were subjected to Britain's controversial "control orders" but it has been announced that all three have now escaped. Brothers Lamine Adam (26) and Ibrahim Adam (20) are related to one recently convicted terrorist. Cerie Bullivant (24) is an associate of the two brothers.
Lamine Adam was mentioned in the Operation Crevice trial, which concluded on April 30. Five people, members of the Al Muhajiroun group, were given life sentences on this date for plotting to blow up planes, trains, pubs, nightclubs and a shopping mall in Kent. The convicted men had been arrested in March 2004 after 600 kilograms of explosive fertilizer, ammonium phosphate, was deposited at a storage depot in Hanwell, west London.
One of those sentenced to life imprisonment on April 30 was 24-year old Anthony Garcia (born Rahman Adam) who is a brother to two of the fugitive suspects. During this trial, Mohammed Junaid Babar gave evidence. This US national turned Islamist supergrass, said at the trial that a plotter from the Crevice cell had wanted "to do something with someone else, as far as making a bomb and hitting a nightclub." When asked who was intended for this, Babar replied: "Garcia's older brother Lamine."
While the Crevice group was making its plans, Lamine Adam had been working as a train driver for the London Underground. He was granted a year's leave of absence. He was banned under his control order from driving on London Underground without written permission from the government. In April, Cerie Bullivant had appeared at the Old Bailey, charged with breaching thirteen of the conditions of his control order.
The Home Secretary, John Reid, made the unprecedented step of releasing details of the three men along with their pictures, after consultations with Scotland Yard. One third of all people who were subjected to the controversial "control orders" are now fugitives. There are three other individuals who are on the run. In October last year, the somewhat censored details of two of these absconders were revealed. 17 control orders have been issued since 2005.
Peter Clarke, head of Terrorism Command for the Metropolitan Police, said: "We know that Lamine Adam, Ibrahim Adam and Cerie Bullivant are associates and may well be together. It is possible the public can help us trace them."
Two of the three men were placed under control orders during the Crevice Trial. Lamine and Ibrahim Adam were given their control orders in February 2007, and Bullivant was issued with such an order in July last year. There are suspicions that they may have been plotting to attack UK troops abroad. They may already have left the country. Algerian-born Lamine and Ibrahim Adam should have reported to a "monitoring company" (not the police) on Monday evening, but did not appear. Cerie Bullivant failed to appear before police on Tuesday. He has since cut his hair short.
John Reid has said today in Parliament: "They are dangerous. We can take nothing for granted, even though the security services assessment is they do not pose a direct threat to the public in the UK. I've never hidden from the house there are limitations in the legislative framework in which we operate. I have consistently made clear control orders are not the best option. They are not in my view even the second best system for tackling terrorist suspects. Under the existing laws control orders are as far as we can go. This is particularly the case for British citizens who want to travel abroad."
Reid promised to introduce new measures against terrorism in a counter-terrorism bill, and also revealed that he is considering removing Britain's obligations to fol
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