Bergman Lovell

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• Militant Imams Under Scrutiny Across Europe

  28 January 2005
  In nightly sermons broadcast on the Internet, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, a 46-year-old Syrian-born cleric, has urged young Muslim men all over the world to support the Iraq insurgency on the front line of « the global jihad », investigators say. He struck a similarly defiant tone this month at a rally attended by 500 people at a central London meeting hall, where a giant screen behind him showed images of the World Trade Center falling. «Allah akbar!» - «God is great» - some audience members shouted at the images.