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divdiv class=story-body readability=53 span class=story-date#13; span class=date5 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time19:02 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; span class=byline byline-photo img src=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64915000/jpg/_64915761_64915760.jpg alt=Frank Gardner/span class=byline-nameBy Frank Gardner/span span class=byline-titleBBC security correspondent/span /span #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1A taskforce has been assembled to try to locate and catch a terror suspect who escaped from his government minders by disguising himself in a burka. /p#13; pMohammed Ahmed Mohamed, 27, who was subject to an order restricting his movements, left a London mosque on Friday with his face and body covered. /p#13; pThe Met Police's Counter Terrorism Command, MI5 and the UK Border Agency are now joining forces to find him./p#13; pHe is the second terror suspect under a so-called TPim order to go missing. /p#13; pThe terrorism prevention and investigation measures (TPim) have come under intense scrutiny since the Briton, who is of Somali origin, absconded from the mosque in Acton, west London./p#13; pHis disappearance has caused acute embarrassment to the home secretary, who introduced the measures./p#13; span class=cross-headThree escape options/span#13; pMr Mohamed is believed to have close links to al-Shabab, the Somali insurgent group that raided Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall in September, resulting in 67 deaths, but officials say there was not enough evidence to bring a criminal case against him in court. /p#13; pWithin hours of Mr Mohamed's disappearance, an alert to ports notice was issued. /p#13; pAlong with his photograph, it placed him on a Warnings Index Database. /p#13; #13; pAs UK Border Agency officers at Britain's ports and airports are told to look out for the suspect, intelligence officers are working closely with the police to try to second-guess where he would be likely to go. /p#13; pAssuming he is not planning to hand himself in, this is thought likely to come down to three broad choices./p#13; pFirst, it is thought he could lie low and stay in Britain. /p#13; pInvestigators are considering the probability that he will make contact with elements of the criminal underworld, although he may be wary of exploiting existing links. /p#13; pTo stay out of custody he will need a new, forged identity, but he still risks being recognised and having his whereabouts phoned in to the police by the public./p#13; pA second choice he has would be to flee Britain for East Africa. /p#13; pIf he can make it to Kenya there is a well-established secret pipeline used by al-Shabab associates to pass through the country on their way from Europe and the US to Somalia. /p#13; pThe Kenyan authorities may be able to apprehend him, but plenty of jihadist volunteers have used the porous Kenya-Somali border to slip through the net and join al-Shabab. /p#13; pThe UK government estimates there are still around 50 British jihadists training and fighting with al-Shabab in Somalia. That number is dwarfed by those heading to Syria to join al-Qaeda-linked groups there./p#13; pThe third potential option under consideration is that Mr Mohamed could flee to Europe. /p#13; pIf he can assume a new identity then he may be able to assimilate himself into the Somali diaspora in a European country with a sizeable community, such as Norway. /p#13; pBut most Somalis do not want to be associated with al-Shabab and, with his picture so widely circulated, he could again be easily recognised./p#13; span class=cross-headArrested if caught/span#13; pThe open judgement handed down by the High Court on his case last year said the security service assessed him as being linked to a group of six British nationals who received terrorist training from al-Qaeda operatives in Somalia in 2006. /p#13; pThe judgement says he also fought on the front line in Somalia in support of al-Shabab, and between 2008 and 2010 was engaged in procuring weapons for use in furthering his terrorism-related activity./p#13; pA Home Office spokesman confirmed that if the police do succeed in catching him, Mr Mohammed will be arrested, as breaching a TPim order is classed as a criminal offence. /p#13; pThe other TPim absconder, named as Ibrahim Magag, escaped in a taxi on Boxing Day in 2012. He has never been caught. /p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center