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Mixed Messages from CagePrisoners

This is a cross-post of an article by Alexander-Meleagrou Hitchens **** In yesterday’s Sunday Times, CagePrisoners (CP) was criticised for promoting al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki on their site. The group’s head, Moazzam Begg, responded by saying that ‘I don’t consider anybody a terrorist until they have been charged and convicted of terrorism.’ The only problem [...]
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Anwar al-Awlaki and his British Friends

A shortened version of this article has been published on Comment is Free **** It is now clear US Army Major Nidal Hasan had a series of connections to the Islamist cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki . For those of us who have studied, with increasing concern, the extreme teachings of this cleric, this tragedy is the inevitable consequence [...]
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Legal Charity to Employ Jihad Supporter

For the last few years, Asim Qureshi has been working for Cageprisoners as a senior researcher. Tomorrow, he says, he will finish working at Cageprisoners and, in the new year, will start work at Reprieve, a legal charity which uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners. You will remember that, back in August, [...]
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A Beginning

The Spittoon recently brought you the disturbing news that, on the 30th of this month, Kensington Town Hall was planning to host a fundraiser for Cageprisoners at which a video message from Anwar al-Awlaki would be broadcast. If you were concerned by this then you will find that today’s Observer contains some good news. An Islamist [...]
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Kensington Welcomes Jihadi Preacher

Anwal al-Awlaki is an American extremist based in Yemen. This is his website. Note the picture of a man with AK47 which, very appropriately, Awlaki uses to represent his website. It also distributes a video of British and American troops suffering in Afghanistan, suffering which is celebrated. On his website, Awlaki publishes a leaflet called 44 [...]
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