UK Terrorist whips up crowd minutes after release from jail

Terrorist whips up crowd minutes after release from jail

A convicted terrorist has addressed a crowd of supporters outside jail minutes after his release and called for a boycott of poppies because they support "murder and illegal war."

Abu Izzadeen, also known as Omar Brooks, was jailed for inciting terrorism abroad and terrorist fund raising two years ago.

He shot to notoriety after heckling the then Home Secretary, John Reid, at a community meeting in East London.

Minutes after he was released from jail, Brooks climbed on the 9ft outer wall of Pentonville prison to shouts of “Allahu Akhbar” [god is great] from dozens of followers.

He then accused British troops in Afghanistan of torture, rape and killing and called for a boycott of poppies sold by the Royal British Legion.

Brooks told the crowd: "The troops are carrying out illegal murders abroad. Houses are being destroyed, mosques are being destroyed. Muslims are being murdered and tortured by the forces.

"I would advise everyone to look to their conscience and see if supporting the occupation of an independent state which involves killing, bombing and interring people's houses is something they can sit with in their hearts.”

He went on: "The troops are occupying foreign lands. That’s what a soldier’s job is – it’s to bomb houses and to kick doors in. It’s to rape them, it’s to handcuff them, it’s to rob them.”

Brooks said if Britain wad not in Iraq and Afghanistan “we would not be a target for terrorism.”

“The actions of our government has brought the target back to us,” he added.

Asked if he was willing to condemn the September 11 and July 7 terrorist attacks, he refused to do so, saying: "I am not obliged to condemn anything.”

Brooks also called for Sharia law in Britain, saying his trial had been political and added: "I've seen with my own eyes the injustices that muslims are facing in this country.

"As a Muslim in the UK you are guilty, in effect, for who you are. In the courts you are innocent until proven Muslim.

"The only solution for us is to establish our own legal courts where Muslims can be tried under Sharia in the UK.”

It is only two months since Jonathan Evans, the director general of MI5, warned of the threats posed by convicted terrorists being released from jail.

Brooks, 34, was sentenced to four years and six months in April 2008 but had his sentence reduced by a year on appeal.

He is thought to have completed his sentence after serving time on remand following his arrest in April 2007.

Brooks led a group of Islamic radicals who stormed Regents Park Mosque in central London and then forced back police who tried to evict them.

The group delivered a series of speeches from the middle of the mosque in November 2004, which coincided with a night of the Muslim festival of Ramadan known as the “Night of Power.”

They were found on a DVD lasting nearly five hours in which Brooks told his followers: “Allah will remove all the kufr [disbelief] from the earth, and how? With dua [prayers] or with some books? No my dear Muslim brothers with jihad for the sake of Allah…So we are terrorists, terrify the enemies of Allah.”

Brooks said anybody who sought “dignity outside of shariah [Islamic law]” would be “humiliated.”

In another speech, recorded two years later in Small Heath, Birmingham, Brooks asked his audience; “Are you ready for another 7/7?”

Brooks was a follower of the radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, one-time leader of a group called al-Muhajiroun, who left for the Lebanon in the wake of the July 2005 bombings
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