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The Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism squad have arrested radical Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary following series of tweets denouncing U.S. led airstrikes against militants of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Choudary, 47, was held hours after an early morning Twitter rant with tweets claiming Britain will never be able to “defeat Islamic State by bombs from the air” while accusing the U.S. and U.K. of waging war on Islam.
According to Scotland Yard, the London-based cleric’s capture was among the nine arrests made by Scotland Yard on Thursday as a “part of on-going inquiry into the Islamist-related terrorism and are not in response to any immediate public safety risk”.
The nine suspects aged between 22 and 51 were arrested on suspicion of being members or the supporters of a banned organisation, Al-Muhajiroun – a British-based Islamic terrorist group who were proscribed in 2010 under the U.K. Terrorism Act.
A Met statement says that the suspects are being held “on suspicion of being a member of a proscribed organisation, supporting a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 11 and 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and encouraging terrorism contrary to Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006.”
Al Muhajiroun is believed to be set up alongside Choudary by Omar Bakri Muhammad, who was told he could not return from Lebanon to the U.K. after the 7/7 bombings.
Fanatics Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, who were both jailed earlier this year for the brutal slaying of a soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby, were both seen at demonstrations organised by al-Muhajiroun, before it was banned.
Police have told to search a total of 18 residential, business and community premises across the city; 11 in east London, one in west London, one in north-west London and five in south London on Thursday morning. One residential address is also being searched in Stoke on Trent.
Britain last month raised its international threat level from substantial to the second-highest level of “severe” with an attack considered as highly likely, while Prime Minister David Cameron has said the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq poses the country’s greatest ever security risk.
The U.K. has recalled Parliament on Friday to take a decision on whether to join U.S. air strikes to combat IS forces.
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