Libyan man goaded officer to shoot him

A Libyan-born man who once featured on the UN’s al Qaeda “terror list” has avoided jail after a court heard he confronted a Garda Special Detective Unit officer and goaded her to shoot him.

Father of six Ibrahim Buisir, 50 was given a two-month suspended sentence and a €300 fine at Dublin District Court yesterday, which heard he became aggressive after refusing to tell an SDU officer the name of a person seen in his car.

Buisir, a naturalised Irish citizen, appeared before Judge William Hamill to answer summons issued by two gardaí attached to SDU, the section tasked with investigating threats to state security, which he claims is harassing him.