"Jihadi John" is just one of several Islamist extremists to emerge from the west London district where he grew up, according to intelligence agencies. Mohammed Emwazi, 26-year-old college graduate, may be the most notorious terrorist from Ladbroke Grove but not the only one. Court documents show M15 linking him to Bilal el-Berjawi, a senior al Shabab figure who grew up less than a mile away from Emwazi. Also a few streets away from Emwazi was a man arrested in October with three others and charged with an ISIS-inspired plot to shoot police or military personnel on the streets of London. Tarik Hassane, a 21-year-old medical student nicknamed "The Surgeon," was arrested at his home in Ladbroke Grove on October 7 and is due to stand trial in June charged with intending to commit acts of terrorism, or assisting others to commit such acts, last summer. The area was the scene of a dramatic terror arrest — captured on video — of two of those responsible for attempting to bomb London's transit system in July 2005, just two weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 commuters in the city. Muktar Said Ibrahim and Ramzi Mohammed, later jailed for life for their role in the failed attacks, emerged from their Ladbroke Grove apartment surrounded by armed police.
