Undercover: Exposing a Terror Plot

In May 2024, Walid Saadaoui is stopped by police in a hotel car park in Bolton. Inside his car, are automatic guns and hundreds of bullets.

Walid Saadaoui and his co-conspirators Amar Hussein and a man named Farouk intended to launch an antisemitic gun attack on Jewish people living in the UK.

They planned to target a peaceful march, before taking their killing spree to an area of north Manchester packed with synagogues, schools, nurseries and care homes.

In phone calls, Saadaoui said he was inspired by the extreme Islamist ideology of the so-called Islamic State group and that he wanted to kill Jewish men, women and even children.

Police say it could potentially have been the deadliest-ever terror attack on UK soil.

Except, there was a vital flaw in their plan: Farouk was an undercover police operative. And his team were tailing and filming the men every step of the way.

We draw back the curtain on the covert police operation that led to Walid Saadaoui's arrest in a hotel car park, and hear from Jewish people living in the community who could have been targeted.

In the wake of the Israel-Gaza conflict, antisemitic terror attacks have hit headlines around the world - including here in the UK.

Jewish communities are building walls around their schools, community hubs and places of worship.

But, one prominent member of the community in Manchester asks: is building the walls ever-higher the real answer?