Word: qatada
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...mosque. But the fact that would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...
...mosque. But the fact that would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...
Another name wearyingly familiar to European investigators also figures in Garzón?s indictment: that of Abu Qatada, the Palestinian-born cleric whose fundamentalist sermons appear to have been a must-do item for al-Qaeda activists passing through London. Yarkas is alleged to have visited Qatada on at least one of his estimated 20 trips to London since 1996, and to have transferred money to him as well. Jacquard calls Qatada "the one person who invariably has had contact with everyone and anyone of stature in the radical Islamist world...
Jordanian government spokesman Saleh al-Qallab told Time last week that Amman has sought Qatada?s extradition from Britain for alleged terrorist activities and provided evidence against him years ago. Though his assets have been frozen by the U.S. and his welfare benefits taken away by the U.K., Qatada still lives freely in London...
...citizenship in 1985, and his mosque in Finsbury Park, tucked among Victorian row houses one tube stop from Arsenal's soccer stadium, has become famous worldwide for preaching jihad. Moussaoui, the Courtailler brothers and Beghal all attended prayers there. Beghal is said also to be a follower of Abu Qatada, a radical who preached jihad from a community center on Baker Street and whose bank account, allegedly with $270,000 in it, was frozen by the Bank of England in mid-October...