In the article was a map showing the incidents and links to these areas by radical Muslims.
The article goes on to list arrests and reports of Islamic Extremism in the City since 2010;
* June 2014: Reyaad Khan, Nasser Muthana and Aseel Muthana appear in a recruitment video for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
* June 2014: A Muslim student who posted a series of links to extremist videos on his Facebook and Twitter pages under the pseudonym ‘Father of Terrorism’ appeared in court. Cardiff man Khuram Iqbal, 21, placed articles and other material which glorified terrorism up for sale on six different Facebook pages.
* July 2012: A Cardiff jihadist who applied to work at the Millennium Stadium during the Olympic Games was jailed for nine months. Norman Idris Faridi, 32, of Pen-y-Wain, Roath, was found to have a “terrorist’s manual”, 39 Ways To Serve And Proceed In Jihad, on his external hard drive.
* July 2012: The sister of one of the would-be London Stock Exchange bombers, Ruksana Begum, 22, of Ninian Park Road, Riverside, is jailed for a year for having al-Qaeda terrorist material in her mobile phone .
* January 2012: Specialist anti-terror police swoop on Canton Community Hall on Leckwith Road after concerns were raised that local Muslims, claiming to be affiliated with a banned extremist group, were holding secret meetings. Mohammed Abdin, 21, of Clare Road, Grangetown, was later jailed for four months for telling police: “I’m going to chop your head off.”
* October 2011: Two teenage boys from Cardiff suspected of having links with Islamist group Al Sha-baab are arrested on their return to the UK after being deported from Kenya. The 18-year-olds were detained by the Metropolitan Police under the Terrorism Act before being released without charge.
* December 2010: Three would-be terrorists are arrested after police foil their plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and even launch a “Mumbai-style” atrocity. Cardiff brothers Abdul Miah, 25, of Ninian Park Road, Riverside, and Gurukanth Desai, 30, of Albert Street, Riverside, planned their Al Qaeda-inspired attacks on walks around Roath Park. They were eventually jailed for a total of nearly 40 years. Omar Sharif Latif, 28, of Riverside, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of attending the meetings with the intention of assisting others to prepare or commit acts of terrorism.
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