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A London-based Muslim cleric was arrested by anti-terrorist officers on Monday amid allegations that he urged Muslims to kill Jews and non-believers, police sources said. Abdullah el-Faisal, 38, was seized by Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch officers in a dawn raid at his home in east London on Monday. Born in Jamaica and a convert to Islam, he had been touring Britain urging followers to kill Jews and non-believers, police said. Members of parliament had called for action to be taken against the cleric after it was reported that video tapes carrying his message were on sale in Islamic bookshops in ...

CBS News is reporting the Pakistani-American allegedly tied by forensic evidence to the Times Square bombing attempt last Saturday is "familiar" to the Obama administration:A source told CBS News that investigators are looking at a possible suspect, a Pakistani American, in the botched car bombing incident near Times Square. The source said forensic evidence uncovered in the vehicle led them to a Middle Eastern man’s name that was familiar to counter terrorism investigators.Fox News reported the Obama administration knows the person of interest recently returned from Pakistan:Federal authorities have identified a person of interest in Saturday night's Times Square bomb...

SNIPPET: "Over the past few weeks, in the aftermath of the Anwar al-Awlaki’s rise to mainstream media prominence, I’ve been asked by several journalists to identify and discuss the role of the influential ‘online celebrity shaykhs.’ At the top of my list of Western jihadist clerics has been a guy known as Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal. Well, turns out, he’s not just at the top of my list. This Jamaican-born fire-breathing jihadist cleric whose spent time in UK prison for incitement to terrorism was just arrested in Mombasa, Kenya for preaching in Kenyan mosques."

LONDON - A Muslim cleric accused of inciting followers to murder "nonbelievers" was granted bail on Wednesday, after a judge ruled that prosecutors had not released documents to his defense team quickly enough. Prosecutors say Abdullah el-Faisal, 38, circulated cassettes of his sermons in which he called on Muslims to kill Hindus, Jews and other nonbelievers. He was arrested in February and denied bail after a judge ruled there was a chance he would go into hiding and commit further offenses. But sitting at London's Old Bailey criminal court on Wednesday, Judge Peter Beaumont granted el-Faisal bail, on condition he...

The 19-year-old suicide bomber responsible for the Kings Cross explosion, known as the "fourth man", is thought to have played a key co-ordinating role in the London bus and Tube terrorist atrocities that killed 55 people. Anti-terrorist detectives now believe Jermaine Lindsay or Lindsay Jamal, who changed his name to Abdullah Shaheed Jamal when he converted to Islam, may have been the most senior of the four bombers. Details about Jamal's role in the bombing came as Britain buried its first bombing victim - a beautiful young Muslim who bore the name of the religion in whose misguided service the...

The number of Islamic extremist security suspects in Britain has increased by 50 percent since the deadly suicide bombings in London last year, The Observer newspaper said on Sunday. A senior intelligence source at the country’s domestic spy agency MI5 was quoted as saying that they were targeting 800 such suspects before the bombings on July 7 last year, but that figure now stood at 1,200. In September 2001, the number of people deemed a “risk to national security” was 250, the newspaper said. The unnamed MI5 source did not give a reason for the apparent rise in radicalisation but...

His style was that of a celebrity lecturer, spreading "enlightenment" in a rich baritone with the help of jokes and references to pop stars as he addressed rapt audiences the length of Britain. News of the arrival of the extremist Muslim cleric Abdullah el-Faisal would spread by word of mouth, and he attracted crowds of up to 150 people at a time. But beneath his jocular manner lay a philosophy skewed by hatred of "kuffars", or unbelievers, and shared by a web of associates allegedly leading back to Osama bin Laden.Yesterday Faisal, 39, was convicted of soliciting murder and stirring...