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Terror backers face treason charges By Geneviève Roberts Published: 08 August 2005 Islamic extremists who have voiced support for terror could be charged with treason, the Attorney General's Office has said. The Crown Prosecution Service's head of anti-terrorism will meet senior officers at Scotland Yard this week, the attorney general's office confirmed. They will discuss possible charges against Omar Bakri Mohammed, who has said he would not inform police if he knew Muslims were plotting a bomb attack, Abu Izzadeen, who told Newsnight the 7 July bombs will make people "wake up and smell the coffee" and Abu Uzair, who called the attacks of 11 September "magnificent". Prosecutors may also seek access to tapes made by the undercover Sunday Times reporter who recorded members of the radical Saviour Sect praising the 7 July bombers as "the fantastic four". Possible charges which will be considered include the common-law offences of treason, incitement to treason, solicitation of murder and incitement to withhold information known to be of use to police. Muslim representatives responded angrily. Shaykh Muhammad Umar, the chairman of the Ramadhan Foundation, which addresses the educational needs of Muslims in the UK, said: "The solution is not to ban these organisations, it is to engage with them. We need to have dialogue with these groups, not alienate them. If you start banning them and putting them in prison we're not going to get anywhere." Criticising the ban on two radical Islamist groups, Hizb-ut-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun, Ramadhan Foundation spokesman Mohammed Shafiq said: "Banning the more radical views from this country will simply send those groups underground; it won't get rid of them". He was speaking at the Muslim Unity Convention 2005, held at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hlk8ekp/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123497844/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
