Radical Muslim youth who aspired to be UK's first suicide bombers

Last week's atrocities confirm emergence of 'home-grown terrorists' ready to die for cause

Ewen MacAskill and Vikram Dodd
Wednesday July 13, 2005
The Guardian

Britain has produced a handful of would-be suicide bombers over the last five years but, until last Thursday, only one who successfully completed a mission. That bomber was Asif Hanif, 21, from London, who walked into Mike's Bar, a blues bar on the seafront at Tel Aviv, in 2003 and blew himself up, killing two musicians and a waitress, and injuring more than 40 others.

He was acting on behalf of the the Palestinian group Hamas, responsible for most of the suicide bomb attacks on Israel.