Word: bakri
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...According to an online report by FORTUNE, one of the men Williams was following was Zacarias Mustapha Soubra, a Lebanese student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Williams thought some of the men might have links to al Muhajiroun (the Immigrant), a hard-line Islamic-extremist group headed by Omar Bakri, a London-based Islamic fundamentalist leader. In Britain, al Muhajiroun, whose political goal is the establishment of a worldwide Islamic caliphate, has been accused of recruiting young Muslims for jihad in Afghanistan. Originally from Syria, Bakri says he is careful to stay one step ahead...
British police also opened an investigation into the activities of Omar Bakri Muhammad, a Syrian-born judge who has preached militancy since arrriving in Britain in 1986. He founded the group al-Muhajiroun, which he claims has 7,000 members, and is dedicated to establishing a worldwide Islamic state with, in the words of an aide, "the black flag of Islam flying over Downing Street...
...Bakri, who has raised funds for Hamas and Hizballah, was banned from university campuses but otherwise left undisturbed. In the days after Sept. 11, al-Muhajiroun issued leaflets welcoming the attacks, but interviewed last week at his office in a modern north London business park, Bakri was moderate in tone. He condemned the terrorist attacks and said he had never met bin Laden, and did not even always agree with his views...