UK: New details emerge about how Liverpool jihad suicide bomber lied to stay in the country

“The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.’” (Bukhari 4.52.269)

“Liverpool bomber lied to stay in UK, documents released to BBC show,” by Dominic Casciani, BBC, January 23, 2022:

New details have emerged about the Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen’s failed asylum attempts – and the false information he used to make his cases.

A previously confidential 2015 asylum judgment, released to the BBC, reveals how his claim of being a Syrian refugee lacked basic facts.

Al Swealmeen, an Iraqi, lost that case but the Home Office did not remove him before he tried again under a new name.

The Home Office will not comment on his case and no review has been announced.

It is not clear whether officials spotted his second application from checking his fingerprint records.

But the papers raise further questions about why he was not removed from the UK before the attack.

Al Swealmeen, 32, was killed when his bomb went off inside a taxi at Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday in November.

The driver escaped seconds before the vehicle was engulfed in flames and was taken to hospital, but did not suffer life-threatening injuries. Nobody else was hurt.

The fresh details about Al Swealmeen’s asylum claim are in the 2015 judgment from the tribunal that rules on appeals against Home Office immigration decisions.

It shows how he told obvious lies in an attempt to stay in the UK, and that his application lacked basic facts about his home and the danger he faced.

According to the documents, released after legal representations from BBC News, Al Swealmeen arrived in the UK on 30 April 2014 and claimed asylum six days later.

He claimed to be fleeing from his native Syria, which was then in the grip of a worsening civil war.

But it was all untrue.

During his interview with a Home Office assessor, Al Swealmeen confirmed he had been living in the United Arab Emirates for 14 years and gave a vague account about returning to Syria to visit family, despite the raging conflict.

He said he had then left out of fear for his life, returned to the UAE and flown on to the UK to claim asylum.

That flight, on a genuine Jordanian passport, came four months after he had already applied for a UK visa – meaning that British immigration officials had a copy of his fingerprints before he arrived.

When a Home Office asylum case worker questioned Al Swealmeen closely about his travels, he couldn’t explain why he had been in danger or describe his purported family’s situation in Syria – such as basic facts about the geography of where they lived.

An expert in Arabic also analysed Al Swealmeen’s speech and concluded he was almost certainly Iraqi….