Three terror suspects were Islam converts

AT least three of the men arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a series of transatlantic flights were converts to Islam, it emerged yesterday.

One, Ibrahim Savant, from Walthamstow, east London, changed his name from Oliver when he became a Muslim, according to neighbours.

The 25-year-old student, whose Muslim wife is reportedly pregnant, was arrested at his parents’ home in Folkestone Road.

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