Is it ? Reporting from The Guardiannews 2016 nov 25 m i s p a i d h o u s i n g b e n e f i t f undisisterrorcellHeadline 5 , 000 in mispaid housing benefit ' used to fund Isis terror cell ' Court hears two men withdrew cash from bank account of Birmingham couple and gave it to Brussels attack suspectMore than 5 , 000 in mispaid housing benefit was used to fund an Islamic State terror cell linked to the Paris and Brussels attacks , a court has heard . Belgian national Anaour Haddouchi left Birmingham to join the terrorist organisation in Syria in the summer of 2014 , and was joined by his Belgian wife a few months later , lawyers said . Kingston crown court heard that Haddouchi and his wife let their home in Small Heath through an agency called Golden Estates when they left the country . It was claimed the letting agent wrote to Birmingham city council on 12 January last year to say that Haddouchi had left the property three weeks earlier and asked to cancel the council tax liability .