Combat 786 is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 gang

Gang

A gang is a group of people who, through the organization, formation, and establishment of an assemblage, share a common identity. In current usage it typically denotes a criminal organization or else a criminal affiliation. In early usage, the word gang referred to a group of workmen...

 with some Islamic theme operating in Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

 and Oldham

Oldham

Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of the city of Manchester...

. It views itself as an organisation to protect Muslims from attacks by neo-Nazis

Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....

 and skinheads and its name is a response to that of Combat 18

Combat 18

Combat 18 is a violent neo-Nazi organisation associated with Blood and Honour. It originated in the United Kingdom, but has since spread to other countries. Members of Combat 18 have been suspected in numerous deaths of immigrants, non-whites, and other C18 members...

, the gang it sees as its main enemy. 786

786 (number)

786 is the integer coming after 785 and before 787.-In mathematics:786 is a sphenic number. 50 can be partitioned into powers of two in 786 different ways ....

 is the numerical value of the Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 phrase at the beginning of the Noble Qur'an

Qur'an

The Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...

, Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim

Basmala

Basmala or Bismillah is an Arabic noun used as a collective name for the whole of the recurring Islamic phrase b-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi, It is sometimes translated as "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful"...

, meaning "In the name of God

Allah

Allah is a word for God used in the context of Islam. In Arabic, the word means simply "God". It is used primarily by Muslims and Bahá'ís, and often, albeit not exclusively, used by Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic Christians, Maltese Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Mizrahi Jews and...

, the most gracious, the most merciful".

Founded	1960–Present
In	Herts, Beds & Bucks, East London, Bradford, Manchester Birmingham
Ethnicity	Asian Bengali, Pakistani, Arabs, Turkish
Membership	2800+
Criminal activities	Protection, Racketeering, conspiracy, loansharking, money laundering, murder, extortion, gambling, hijacking, cigarette smuggling, counterfeiting and fraud.
Allies	Arifs (gang) Arifs (gang) The Arifs are a South East London-based Turkish Cypriot criminal organization heavily involved in armed robbery, contract killing, drug trafficking and other racketeering-related activities within London's underworld since the late 1960s... , 14K Triad 14K Triad The 14K is a Triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally. It is the second largest Triad group in the world with around 20,000 members split into thirty subgroups. They are the main rival of the Sun Yee On, which is the largest Triad. The 14K are responsible for large-scale drug... , Black Cobra (gang) Black Cobra (gang) Black Cobra is one of the largest criminal networks in Denmark and is represented in most major Danish cities, with approximately 100 members. The gang is also active in Sweden, having established itself in the Malmö district Rosengård and the Stockholm suburbs of Tensta and Rinkeby. They also... , Bandidos Bandidos The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is a "one-percenter" motorcycle gang and organized crime syndicate with a worldwide membership. The club was formed in 1966 by Don Chambers in Texas. Its slogan is We are the people our parents warned us about. It is estimated to have... , 36 Boys 36 Boys The 36 Boys were a gang of primarily Turkish immigrants from Berlin-Kreuzberg.The gang was active from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Besides Turkish, other nationalities were also represented in the 300–400 members of the large gang... , Ndrangheta, ((Neutral with Black gangs))
Rival	Black Panthers, Nazis, Skinheads, Warriors, Sun Yee On and Shui Fong, Comancheros, Hells Angels, Sons of Silence and Original Rebels Gangsters

External links

• The Guardian: "Far Right plot to provoke race riots"