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Fanatic Who Trained 7/7 Bomber Set Up Islamic Primary School In Britain

2014-03-31

A terror suspect who trained the ringleader of the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London has been allowed to set up an Islamic primary school, teaching children as young as three, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

As a member of a banned extremist group, Sajeel Shahid, 38, called for violence against British troops and ran a training camp in Pakistan where known terrorists learned how to make bombs and fire rocket- propelled grenades.

One of his 'graduates' was Mohammed Siddique Khan, who led the gang of four suicide bombers on the deadliest terrorist attack ever committed in Britain, killing 52 people on the London Underground and a bus on July 7, 2005.

Shahid also allegedly trained four convicted terrorists who tried to blow up the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent and London's Ministry of Sound nightclub in a foiled plot.

The jihadist -- who was raised in Britain but spent years in Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks -- was detained for three months in 2005 by the Pakistani security forces over his suspected links to Al Qaeda. He had been running the Pakistan branch of the banned British extremist group Al-Muhajiroun. After his detention he was expelled from the country.

So even though he repudiates everything Britain stands for, the Brits took him back after the Paks said he was too crazy for them...

But despite being known to British security services, on his return to the UK he was given permission to set up an independent primary school, where he taught lessons and employed his brother -- who also has a history of extremism -- as head of IT.

The Department for Education said last night it was 'urgently' looking into Shahid's case, which critics said exposed the lack of checks on potentially dangerous individuals who set up schools in the UK.

They're now looking into after letting him back into the country in 2005?

Lord Carlile, the Government's former adviser on counter-terrorism, said: 'It is a matter of real concern that somebody should be able to slip through the net and run a school where there has been substantial concern about his activities in the past.

'People who have been involved in terrorist activity anywhere in the world should not be allowed to run schools, unless there is the clearest evidence they have rejected the views that made them turn towards terrorism.'

Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee which is investigating terrorism, including extremism in schools, said: 'It's extremely worrying a person with such a history, which should be of concern to the relevant authorities, should be in such a position. The DfE needs to look into this urgently.'

How about expelling the man to Mauritania?

Documents seen by The Mail on Sunday show Shahid was registered as director and proprietor of the Ad-Deen Primary School in Ilford, Essex, which teaches 54 pupils aged three to 11. He is thought to have founded the Â2,000-a-year school in 2009, where, using the pseudonym Abu Ibrahim, he taught children to recite the Koran. He was able to operate his school for five years, despite the DfE launching a Due Diligence and Counter-Extremism Unit in 2010 to prevent individuals with a history of extremist beliefs running schools.

A cursory internet check on Shahid reveals his past as a terror suspect, as he even has a profile on Wikipedia stating his involvement with Al-Muhajiroun, the group founded by Omar Bakri Mohammed.

In 2001, Bakri sent Shahid and his elder brother Adeel, 39, also a member of Al-Muhajiroun, to Pakistan to set up a branch of the group there. In December 2001, Shahid gave an interview to a British newspaper. He said: 'We say the Pakistan army, navy and air-force should be fighting US and British forces which are killing our Islamic brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. We see the US and British governments as the biggest terrorists in the world.'
He also called on Muslims to rise up and 'throw out their rulers implementing kufr [infidel] laws to be replaced by the Islamic law and order,' adding, 'jihad was the only solution for Muslim lands under occupation.'

More of Shahid's history at the link.

Posted by:Steve White

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