In terms of his importance to the (extremist) cause...he was a facilitator and agitator.

There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

He's an agitator and if you let him get to you then he's effective. But we've got agitators too, we just didn't happen to have our agitators going that night I guess.

There are two real targets for intelligence: the Islamic world and China. It's pretty clear that the types of people who are going to be high on their recruitment list are going to be Asian-looking, Asian-language- speaking Brits.

It's a recruitment pitch, it's a call to arms, it's telling the Muslim community to get more active.

It would, in effect, be an instant press conference if they were to do something,