A day after London Bridge attack that claimed lives of seven pedestrians and injured 50 other; the cops have identified the attackers as Khurram Shahzad Butt , A 27-year-old Pakistan-born British national, who was shot dead by police after the London attack, was a brainwashed follower of a banned extremist group and Rachid Redouane. Police today identified the third attacker as Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Italian of Moroccan descent .
Mastermind of London Bridge attack Khurram Shehzad Butt campaigned against the state of Pakistan frequently and called for the overthrow of democratic system.
Butt became a member of banned organisation al-Muhajiroun headed by Anjem Choudary. Choudary is suspected to have recruited more than 100 volunteers for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS). Butt was married to a local woman and is the father of two children.
Working under the banner of Al-Muhajiroun and its offshoots (Al Ghurabaa, The Saviour Sect, Islam4UK), Khurram Butt took part in demonstrations held outside Pakistan High Commission, Regent’s Park Mosque and at venues in Southall, East London and Luton.
Al-Muhajiroun has been linked to half of all terror plots by British nationals in the United Kingdom and overseas over the last two decades, according to research published in 2015 by Raffaello Pantucci, a terrorism analyst at the Royal United Services Institute.
Khurram Butt was a trusted follower of Anjem Choudary when the Al-Muhajiroun leader announced in November 2012 that he will hold a conference in Islamabad’s Red (Lal) Mosque to formally launch movement for the implementation of Shariah. For that purpose Anjem Choudary and his followers, including Khurram Butt, had set up a website called Sharia4Pakistan. Anjem Choudary was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 for calling on Muslims in the United Kingdom to support ISIS.