Britain arrests 2 after top preacher held

British police on Friday said they had arrested two more suspects in an investigation into “Islamist-related terrorism,” a day after nine were detained including a top radical preacher.

September 26, 2014

 


 


LONDON — British police on Friday said they had arrested two more suspects in an investigation into “Islamist-related terrorism,” a day after nine were detained including a top radical preacher. The two men “were arrested in the early hours of this morning in a vehicle on the M6 motorway,” which runs between central and northern England, police said in a statement. One of them, aged 33, was arrested for “encouraging terrorism” and “being a member of a proscribed organization,” while the other, 42, was held for “assisting an offender.” The nine arrested on Thursday are also suspected of links to a banned organization, reportedly the extremist Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun. It was co-founded by one of the detained, Anjem Choudary, who is regularly quoted in British tabloids for his controversial views on Islam and the Middle East. – AFP


September 26, 2014
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