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9/11 hijackers spiritual leader ordered bombing of US airliner | Al Qaeda commander and spiritual leader of the 9/11 hijackers and Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan is said to be behind the failed plot to blow up an US airliner on Friday. Yemen-based cleric Anwar al Awlaki whose
messages
have been promoted at British mosques and universities was last night named as
the inspiration for Friday's US bomb plot. Senior Republican congressman Pete
Hoekstra said that according to his US intelligence sources, Awlaki and the failed
bomber, University College London student Umar Abdulmutallab , had been in touch
with each before Friday's flight. The 38-year-old cleric is believed to have been
the target of a US-backed Yemeni air strike last week, the Daily Express reports.
Security sources believe the military assault was launched after American, Yemeni
and Saudi intelligence services discovered major terror plots against Western
targets. Initial reports suggested that Awlaki and dozens of other Al Qaeda
operatives
were killed, but his allies claim he survived. If his links to the Northwest Airlines
bomb are confirmed, it will again expose the increasing threat of radicalisation
on Britain 's university campuses. The American born imam is a hero to Islamic
student societies throughout Britain . He is invited regularly to send video messages
to students who believe he is a devout man of peace. He has also spoken at the
radical East London Mosque, while its controversial offshoots, the Islamic Forum
Europe and the Young Muslim Organisation, have promoted his work. On Saturday,
hours after the US terror plot, students at the City University Islamic Society
in London were defending Awlaki on their message board. They said his attackers
were "liars and evil doers" and called for him and Al Qaeda "soldiers" to be blessed. |
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