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Hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammad ‘freed from prison’ amid fears he will brainwash youngsters

HATE preacher Omar Bakri Mohammad is free from jail, it is reported.

Security chiefs fear he can now brainwash young Brit Muslims online.

Hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammad has reportedly been freed from jail
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Hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammad has reportedly been freed from jailCredit: AP:Associated Press
Security chiefs now fear he will brainwash young Brit Muslims online
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Security chiefs now fear he will brainwash young Brit Muslims onlineCredit: AP:Associated Press

Bakri, 65, banned from Britain, is said to have been released in Lebanon last week. He was jailed in 2014 over support for terror group al—Qaeda.

He preached hate from a North London mosque but fled the UK facing arrest for treason after the 7/7 attacks in 2005.

A Whitehall source said: “There are concerns he could still be a malign influence on young people through the internet.”

Syrian Bakri moved to the UK in 1986. He formed banned militant group al-Muhajiroun.

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His disciples include the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013, the gang behind the 2017 London Bridge attacks and those responsible for the failed 2004 fertiliser bomb plot

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