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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Terrorists receiving government welfare is a common theme discovered in   
   many post-terror attack investigations.   
      
      
   London’s Westminster Terrorist Received Government Welfare Before Engaging   
   In His Attack   
      
      
   Khalid Masood, the radical ISIS terrorist responsible for London’s   
   Westminster terror attack, did not have a job and was receiving   
   government benefits before engaging in his attack.   
      
   Masood, 52, was unemployed and living in Birmingham before he killed four   
   people and injured approximately 40 others in Wednesday’s attack. He was   
   also reportedly receiving government benefits, according to The Telegraph.   
      
   Born Adrian Ajao, Masood had a violent criminal history, including several   
   knife attacks. He had not previously been convicted for terrorism-related   
   activities, but he was investigated by MI5, the U.K.’s domestic intelligence   
   service, for his part in a    
   terrorist bombing plot in 2010.   
      
   Known as a partier in his youth, Masood enjoyed playing soccer while in   
   school. He was the father of four children, two daughters from a relationship   
   in the 1990s, and a daughter and a son with his most recent partner. Masood is   
   also believed to have    
   been married to a Muslim woman at some point in 2004.   
      
      
   Masood’s employment history is spotty, though he is known to have taught   
   English to foreigners. He spent two stints living in Saudi Arabia, the first   
   of which occurred in 2005. Masood claimed to have a degree in economics,   
   according to his resume, as    
   well as a career in sales at a British chemical company.   
      
   Terrorists receiving government welfare is a common theme discovered in many   
   post-terror attack investigations.   
      
   Anis Amri, the terrorist who killed 12 and injured 48 at a Christmas market in   
   Berlin in December, was under investigation for committing welfare fraud under   
   several different identities before carrying out his attack. Several of the   
   plotters of the    
   Paris and Brussels terror attacks, including Paris mastermind Salah Abdeslam,   
   are also known to have collected government welfare. The Danish government   
   reported last year that 36 ISIS members had received welfare benefits prior to   
   traveling to Iraq and    
   Syria.   
      
   In some cases, these radicals use welfare schemes to fund their terrorist   
   activities. The Paris and Brussels attackers collected a total of $56,000 in   
   welfare, but spent only $37,000 to carry out the attacks.   
      
      
   Masood is known to have lived under various pseudonyms, including Adrian Elms,   
   though it is unclear if he engaged in welfare fraud.   
      
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