Anjem Choudary invited top European jihadi recruiter to UK, new documentary reveals
The hate preacher is seen meeting Ubaydullah Hussain and other extremists in new film Recruiting for Jihad
ANJEM Choudary invited a top European jihadi recruiter to Britain, a new documentary has revealed.
The hate preacher hosted Norwegian fanatic Ubaydullah Hussain in 2014, who came to the country to learn from him.
Filmmakers Adel Khan Farooq and Ulrik Rolfson gained unprecedented access to Hussain’s inner circle for their documentary Recruiting for Jihad.
Never-before-seen footage reveals Choudary’s links to an international network of fanatics for the first time.
In the documentary, Hussain and his pals are picked up from the airport in person by Choudary, before travelling to one of his lectures on radical Islamic values.
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Also pictured at the event is Brusthom Ziamani, who was arrested weeks later after plotting to behead a soldier in a Lee Rigby-style attack.
And ISIS executioner Siddartha Dhar makes an appearance just three months before fleeing to Syria with his family to link up with the jihadi group.
The group then hit the streets of North London to preach their warped message, with Hussain ending the visit by saying he will take what he learned back to Norway.
Choudary was jailed for five-and-a-half years in September 2016, while Hussain was handed a nine-year sentence in his home country last month.
And security expert Professor Anthony Glees told the he believes the meeting in the documentary could have played a key role in their being caught.
He said: “This meeting will have triggered all sorts of alarm bells.
“And now both of these men are in prison in their respective countries.
“It is quite plausible that intelligence picked up by this contact played a part in that.”
Recruiting for Jihad had its international premiere in Toronto last week.
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