Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, issued the warning after it emerged on Tuesday that two men living in Birmingham handed thousands in wrongly-paid state handouts to Brussels terrorism suspect ‘The Man in the Hat’. The cash was obtained from welfare payments given in error to Anouar Haddouchi, another Belgian who had already been fighting for IS in Syria for a year.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds of British housing and child welfare payments have been used to fund Islamic terrorism in recent years, a former watchdog head claims.
Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, issued the warning after it emerged on Tuesday that two men living in Birmingham handed thousands in wrongly-paid state handouts to Brussels terrorism suspect ‘The Man in the Hat’.
Carlile told the Times that “several hundred thousand pounds in small remittances have been used to fund terrorism…
