Life goes on in a vibrant Greater Manchester neighbourhood after a plan for an attack was thwarted
“They tried to kill us. They failed. Let’s eat,” Andrew Walters said.
It is an old Jewish joke that’s as relevant as ever in Greater Manchester in the face of today’s threats.
For Walters, the independent councillor for Kersal and Broughton Park, Salford, the joke encapsulates the good-humoured resilience that is a defining feature of his Orthodox Jewish community.
This vibrant neighbourhood was identified as a target by an Islamic State sleeper cell, whose plot to “kill as many Jews as possible” in a marauding firearms attack was thwarted. Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein were both been found guilty on Tuesday of terrorism offences.
