Sheikh Omar:
And thats why, freedom of speech -- you can insult god, you can insult messenger, you can insult Jesus, Moses, Mohamed but dare you to speak about what? About USA government. Almighty man disagree with that USA government, it is angel government.
02:20
Hardaker:
A Sunday afternoon in London and above the local video store one of Britains most extreme Muslim clerics, Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad is leading his own holy war.
02:44
Sheikh Omar: You anger me. You enjoy yourself and you go to hellfire.
02:57
North London mosque
Hardaker:
Across town, a north London mosque has become part of the worlds terror map - the imam is happy to be called a terrorist.
03:00
Sheikh Abu Hamza:
If I am in prison because of that I dont mind. This is a message, this is a prophecy, is to encounter these kind of difficulties.
03:09
Westminster Abbey
Hardaker: The atrocities of September 11 have forced Britons to confront a new and uncomfortable reality -- that their country is the weak link in Europes anti-terrorist chain.
Sheikh Omar:
Oh God lead Muslims to victory. Or Allah defeat USA and U.K. forces in Afghanistan. Or Allah give victory to Muslims in Afghanistan, in Lebanon, in Palestine in Chechnya in Kashmir, wherever there are believers fighting against disbelievers.
03:28
Man:
Amin, Amin.
London Buses
Radio fx
03:47
Streets of London
Talkback caller:
By all means, arrest them and ship them straight out. They have a big sign up there that says there is no other god but Allah. It's one rule for them and one for us.
Talkback caller:
I think internment should be brought in straight away.
Hardaker:
England is crackling with dismay and not a little anger at how many Islamic terrorists have come to call London home.
04:09
Talkback caller:
The French Exterior Minister said the other day that Britain is paradise for terrorists. It is heaven for terrorists, because we are so slack in checking up on people's backgrounds. He said that if he was a terrorist he'd want to live in Britain.
04:17
Cavendish Court Hardaker:
Within days of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, Britain was revealed to have its own key links to the Al-Quaeda network of Osama bin Laden.
04:35
Not five minutes from Heathrow airport, in an utterly ordinary neighbourhood, it emerged extraordinary events had taken place. Behind the door of number seven Cavendish Court, an Algerian pilot called Lotfi Raissi, had been holed up -- a man police now accuse of instructing four of the September 11 suicide pilots.
04:45
East: It's very much a family community. so for someone like to come and live in that type of family community does seem extraordinary really, but then perhaps thats why he did it, because he can blend into the background and lose himself here.
05:05
Hardaker: Bob East had no idea what his own neighbour was up to.
Streets of London
Hardaker:
But the tougher questions are for the British authorities, like MI5 and Scotland Yards anti-terrorist branch. Why didn't they know that there were men in this town who want to literally explode the United States and all it stands for. And if they did know, why did they seemingly do so little about it for so long?
05:22
Sheikh Omar: I ask you Muslim brothers, can you study to become doctors in the west? Pilot? Who is Muslims who want to become pilot? (laughs) They become terrorist, OK no pilot.
05:42
Hardaker: Take Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad the atrocities of September 11 have given a new edge to his mix of humour and venom, as he promotes his goal of an Islamic state in Britain.
05:55
Sheikh Omar: My dear Muslim brothers Allah order you, you must believe in it, you must work for it, with the will of god we will establish it. There is no need yourself to say we are living in Britain to integrate. We are living as Muslims wherever we are to submit to the almighty God and make sure society submit to the almighty God.
06:05
Hardaker:
At regular Sunday afternoons like these, young British Muslims lap up the fundamentalist message -- videos on terrorism are selling like hotcakes.A group of these young men told me off camera that they would have no hesitation in becoming suicide pilots to attack United States facilities.
06:28
Sheikh Omar BakriSuper:
Sheikh Omar Bakri MuhammedAl Muhajiroun
Sheikh Omar:
We dont have any link to any militant or militia or any type of organisation that is proscribed to be terrorist . We are purely ideological political parties adopting Islam and carrying it by non-violent means.
06:49
Hardaker:
Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad was given safe haven by Britain 15 years ago, after he was kicked out of Syria, then Saudi Arabia, for extremist activities. Hes the leader of the countrys most radical Islamic group, known as Al-Muhajiroun.
07:07
Al-Muhajiroun Meeting
The sheikh styles himself as an intellectual leader, opposed to violence, yet hundreds of his young followers have gone overseas, including to Afghanistan, to train for fighting in Muslim conflicts.
07:26
Sheikh Omar: Those who go after to Afghanistan it's their own choice because they dont go for terrorist activity, they go to support their own brothers and sisters against invaders or foreign forces.
07:39
Al-Muhajiroun Meeting
Activist:
Remember six million Muslims in the U.K. means an army of six million.Hardaker: This is the hand of Sheikh Omar at work, his Al-Mujahiroun group in full cry outside Londons central mosque.
07:52
Activist : Propaganda. I bomb your house. I bomb your (?), I kill your children Have some halwa, I need food.
Hardaker:
French intelligence has named the sheikh as one of three key individuals in Britain raising money and people to fight for the fundamentalist cause.
08:15
After September 11 British authorities shut down what they allege was an internet terrorist site linked to the sheikh.
Under the heading, 'The Ultimate Jihad Challenge', the website offered young Muslims specialised weapons training. The choices included live fire shooting at, through and from vehicle, and live fire shooting on the move.
08:33
Sheikh Sheikh:
It was really some individuals youth club who are really involved in boxing and swimming and some kind of martial art. It is not involved in any way in some kind of threat to any security.
08:50
Finsbury Park Mosque
Hardaker:
Down the road at the Finsbury Park mosque in North London, is another Muslim cleric, named by French intelligence as raising money and men for the fundamentalist cause. The cleric in charge of this mosque has clear links to terrorism and openly condones the atrocities of September 11.
09:09
Sheikh Abu Hamza
Super:Abu Hamza al-MazriFinsbury Park Mosque
Sheikh Abu Hamza:
or people like you been killing for centuries and been killing for decades if they want to retaliate for their dead because you dont listen then I can no way say to them we are not allowed to do these things. Because they also have civilians you have killed with your bombs and your policies and your sanctions.
09:23
Yemen Hardaker:
Abu Hamza al-Masri is blind in one eye, and has lost both hands as a result of fighting in Afghanistan with the Mujahadeen.
09:43
In 1998, Abu Hamzas own son and stepson were part of a terrorist group which kidnapped British and Australian tourists in Yemen. The Yemen government charged that Abu Hamza was the mastermind, though he was never extradited. The imam takes no exception to being branded a terrorist.
Sheikh Abu Hamza
Sheikh Abu Hamza:
No I dont mind you see I am somebody working in dowa. I am working in what you say inviting people for the religion, Muslim and non-Muslim. So if I am in prison because of that I dont mind. That's the price when you say the truth you have to, Im pulling people back to know the definitions of right and wrong according to God.
10:16
Finsbury park
Hardaker:
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it's emerged that three young men who spent time at Finsbury park have direct links to Osama bin Ladens Al-Quaeda network. One was part of the World Trade Center suicide team.
10:40
The police though have had little success penetrating Abu Hamzas fortress. But one man did go inside.
10:54
Reda Hassaine
Reda Hassaine lives in this London bed sit, alone, and on the edge. A former journalist in Algeria, he went inside Finsbury Park mosque for 18 months gathering information which he then passed to British police. He observed Abu Hamza close up.
Super:
Reda HassaineFormer police informant
Reda:
For me there is no difference between him and Osama bin Laden. He does recruit people, he does train people, he teach them hate. They have been sent to Bosnia at the beginning and they have been sent to Chechnya and some others have been sent to Afghanistan to do some military training. So it is like this in this mosque.
11:20
Abu Hamza:
I wouldnt have the slightest idea about these Muslims they go about everywhere and they move everywhere. Just because they pass through this station doesnt make that claim stand at all. All what it means is that the media has got a mission against this mosque thats all that that means.
11:45
Hardaker:
Abu Hamza has a close alliance with another Islamic extremist, Abu Qatada.
12:02
Reda
Hardaker: Do you regard him as a dangerous man?Reda: Very, very dangerous. He should be in prison, otherwise they are creating terrorist every day.
Hardaker:
Last month, the United States Treasury named him as being linked to the bin Laden terror group. His bank account was frozen by British authorities and was found to contain half a million dollars, even though hes received council housing benefits for several years.
12:19
Abu Qatada denies he has any link to al-Quaeda, but a world authority on terrorism says otherwise.
12:35
Roland Jacquard Roland Jacquard is a former counter terrorism adviser to the French Prime Minister. Hes investigated the influence of men like Abu Qatada and the Al-Quaeda network.
12:42
Jacquard:
Abu Qatada is a man very important. Hes an Islamic in England. Because he can, he is a man who is most involved with the propaganda of the bin Laden connections. And Bhegal is very close to this guy.
Paris, Statue of Liberty
Hardaker: Bhegal is Djamel Bhegal, who, until his recent arrest, was one of Europes most wanted men. The European head of Al-Quaeda, hes told investigators he was planning a second wave of attacks on US targets in Paris after the events of September 11. Bhegal revealed that hed frequented the Finsbury Park mosque. And he named Abu Qatada as the man whod recruited him and sent him to train in Afghanistan.
13:10
Jacquard
Super:Roland JacquardInt.
Observatory of Terrorism, Paris Jacquard: And after Bhegal is leaving this country to come back in France and for France he is coming back in England, and from England he is coming to Pakistan, Pakistan to Afghanistan, and training camp of Osama Bin Laden.
13:37
London Central Mosque
Hardaker:
Its now emerged that at least four young men graduated to the Al-Quaeda network after being exposed to the fundamentalist teachings of Abu Qatada, operating from this, the London Central Mosque.
13:59
Photo Zacarias Moussaoui
One was Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker of the World Trade Center suicide team. Moussaoui was arrested two weeks before the attacks after suspicions were raised about him at a pilot training school. His older brother, Abd Samad, was shocked to learn how Zacarias had transformed into an international terrorist.
14:12
Abd Samad:
I was watching television on September 11. And I saw images of the attack live, so making the link with the little brother youve grown up with someone youve played with and who you had a big brother / little brother relationship with and seeing something as shocking as that, really it took me the whole week to take it in.
Hardaker:
Abd Samad recalled that his brother had undergone a fundamental change after spending time in London with the extremist clerics, and he'd been alarmed at the literature his brother had been reading, the writings of one Islamic purist in particular.
15:08
Abd Samad: He says there is no possibility of co-operation with the western world and even studying in the western world is the first sign of intellectual corruption. He writes in these books that there is no other house possible than the house of Islam and theres no other way of relating to non-muslim people other than through war.
15:22
Protest Crowd
15:56
Reda:
London, its London Its the safe haven. There are many people as well as Abu Hamza or Abu Qatada who, if they were in France, for example, a long time ago they are in prison because the problem for example, when you say that as Abu Hamza or Abu Qatada incite people to kill other people . The British take it as freedom of speech.
Protest Crowd
16:51
Hardaker:
So far the British authorities have not responded to criticism of their performance. The radical Islamic leaders have been placed under closer scrutiny, but they are still free to spread their message of jihad or war to the west.
16:57
Jacquard:
I think that the British Government for a long has a low profile with the terrorists. They dont consider that they are dangerous. It seems that they can control them, it seems that these people, they dont want make attacks from London or in London because they are protected in Great Britain. But I think they make a big mistake because these kind of people play a double game each time.
17:18
Protest Crowd
Credits:
London Terror
Reporter: David Hardaker
Camera: Chris Albert, John Landy
Editors: Stuart Miller, Simon Brynjolffssen
Producers: Mary Ann Jolley, Jane Robinson, Ian Altschwager
And thats why, freedom of speech -- you can insult god, you can insult messenger, you can insult Jesus, Moses, Mohamed but dare you to speak about what? About USA government. Almighty man disagree with that USA government, it is angel government.
02:20
Hardaker:
A Sunday afternoon in London and above the local video store one of Britains most extreme Muslim clerics, Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad is leading his own holy war.
02:44
Sheikh Omar: You anger me. You enjoy yourself and you go to hellfire.
02:57
North London mosque
Hardaker:
Across town, a north London mosque has become part of the worlds terror map - the imam is happy to be called a terrorist.
03:00
Sheikh Abu Hamza:
If I am in prison because of that I dont mind. This is a message, this is a prophecy, is to encounter these kind of difficulties.
03:09
Westminster Abbey
Hardaker: The atrocities of September 11 have forced Britons to confront a new and uncomfortable reality -- that their country is the weak link in Europes anti-terrorist chain.
Sheikh Omar:
Oh God lead Muslims to victory. Or Allah defeat USA and U.K. forces in Afghanistan. Or Allah give victory to Muslims in Afghanistan, in Lebanon, in Palestine in Chechnya in Kashmir, wherever there are believers fighting against disbelievers.
03:28
Man:
Amin, Amin.
London Buses
Radio fx
03:47
Streets of London
Talkback caller:
By all means, arrest them and ship them straight out. They have a big sign up there that says there is no other god but Allah. It's one rule for them and one for us.
Talkback caller:
I think internment should be brought in straight away.
Hardaker:
England is crackling with dismay and not a little anger at how many Islamic terrorists have come to call London home.
04:09
Talkback caller:
The French Exterior Minister said the other day that Britain is paradise for terrorists. It is heaven for terrorists, because we are so slack in checking up on people's backgrounds. He said that if he was a terrorist he'd want to live in Britain.
04:17
Cavendish Court Hardaker:
Within days of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, Britain was revealed to have its own key links to the Al-Quaeda network of Osama bin Laden.
04:35
Not five minutes from Heathrow airport, in an utterly ordinary neighbourhood, it emerged extraordinary events had taken place. Behind the door of number seven Cavendish Court, an Algerian pilot called Lotfi Raissi, had been holed up -- a man police now accuse of instructing four of the September 11 suicide pilots.
04:45
East: It's very much a family community. so for someone like to come and live in that type of family community does seem extraordinary really, but then perhaps thats why he did it, because he can blend into the background and lose himself here.
05:05
Hardaker: Bob East had no idea what his own neighbour was up to.
Streets of London
Hardaker:
But the tougher questions are for the British authorities, like MI5 and Scotland Yards anti-terrorist branch. Why didn't they know that there were men in this town who want to literally explode the United States and all it stands for. And if they did know, why did they seemingly do so little about it for so long?
05:22
Sheikh Omar: I ask you Muslim brothers, can you study to become doctors in the west? Pilot? Who is Muslims who want to become pilot? (laughs) They become terrorist, OK no pilot.
05:42
Hardaker: Take Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad the atrocities of September 11 have given a new edge to his mix of humour and venom, as he promotes his goal of an Islamic state in Britain.
05:55
Sheikh Omar: My dear Muslim brothers Allah order you, you must believe in it, you must work for it, with the will of god we will establish it. There is no need yourself to say we are living in Britain to integrate. We are living as Muslims wherever we are to submit to the almighty God and make sure society submit to the almighty God.
06:05
Hardaker:
At regular Sunday afternoons like these, young British Muslims lap up the fundamentalist message -- videos on terrorism are selling like hotcakes.A group of these young men told me off camera that they would have no hesitation in becoming suicide pilots to attack United States facilities.
06:28
Sheikh Omar BakriSuper:
Sheikh Omar Bakri MuhammedAl Muhajiroun
Sheikh Omar:
We dont have any link to any militant or militia or any type of organisation that is proscribed to be terrorist . We are purely ideological political parties adopting Islam and carrying it by non-violent means.
06:49
Hardaker:
Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad was given safe haven by Britain 15 years ago, after he was kicked out of Syria, then Saudi Arabia, for extremist activities. Hes the leader of the countrys most radical Islamic group, known as Al-Muhajiroun.
07:07
Al-Muhajiroun Meeting
The sheikh styles himself as an intellectual leader, opposed to violence, yet hundreds of his young followers have gone overseas, including to Afghanistan, to train for fighting in Muslim conflicts.
07:26
Sheikh Omar: Those who go after to Afghanistan it's their own choice because they dont go for terrorist activity, they go to support their own brothers and sisters against invaders or foreign forces.
07:39
Al-Muhajiroun Meeting
Activist:
Remember six million Muslims in the U.K. means an army of six million.Hardaker: This is the hand of Sheikh Omar at work, his Al-Mujahiroun group in full cry outside Londons central mosque.
07:52
Activist : Propaganda. I bomb your house. I bomb your (?), I kill your children Have some halwa, I need food.
Hardaker:
French intelligence has named the sheikh as one of three key individuals in Britain raising money and people to fight for the fundamentalist cause.
08:15
After September 11 British authorities shut down what they allege was an internet terrorist site linked to the sheikh.
Under the heading, 'The Ultimate Jihad Challenge', the website offered young Muslims specialised weapons training. The choices included live fire shooting at, through and from vehicle, and live fire shooting on the move.
08:33
Sheikh Sheikh:
It was really some individuals youth club who are really involved in boxing and swimming and some kind of martial art. It is not involved in any way in some kind of threat to any security.
08:50
Finsbury Park Mosque
Hardaker:
Down the road at the Finsbury Park mosque in North London, is another Muslim cleric, named by French intelligence as raising money and men for the fundamentalist cause. The cleric in charge of this mosque has clear links to terrorism and openly condones the atrocities of September 11.
09:09
Sheikh Abu Hamza
Super:Abu Hamza al-MazriFinsbury Park Mosque
Sheikh Abu Hamza:
or people like you been killing for centuries and been killing for decades if they want to retaliate for their dead because you dont listen then I can no way say to them we are not allowed to do these things. Because they also have civilians you have killed with your bombs and your policies and your sanctions.
09:23
Yemen Hardaker:
Abu Hamza al-Masri is blind in one eye, and has lost both hands as a result of fighting in Afghanistan with the Mujahadeen.
09:43
In 1998, Abu Hamzas own son and stepson were part of a terrorist group which kidnapped British and Australian tourists in Yemen. The Yemen government charged that Abu Hamza was the mastermind, though he was never extradited. The imam takes no exception to being branded a terrorist.
Sheikh Abu Hamza
Sheikh Abu Hamza:
No I dont mind you see I am somebody working in dowa. I am working in what you say inviting people for the religion, Muslim and non-Muslim. So if I am in prison because of that I dont mind. That's the price when you say the truth you have to, Im pulling people back to know the definitions of right and wrong according to God.
10:16
Finsbury park
Hardaker:
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it's emerged that three young men who spent time at Finsbury park have direct links to Osama bin Ladens Al-Quaeda network. One was part of the World Trade Center suicide team.
10:40
The police though have had little success penetrating Abu Hamzas fortress. But one man did go inside.
10:54
Reda Hassaine
Reda Hassaine lives in this London bed sit, alone, and on the edge. A former journalist in Algeria, he went inside Finsbury Park mosque for 18 months gathering information which he then passed to British police. He observed Abu Hamza close up.
Super:
Reda HassaineFormer police informant
Reda:
For me there is no difference between him and Osama bin Laden. He does recruit people, he does train people, he teach them hate. They have been sent to Bosnia at the beginning and they have been sent to Chechnya and some others have been sent to Afghanistan to do some military training. So it is like this in this mosque.
11:20
Abu Hamza:
I wouldnt have the slightest idea about these Muslims they go about everywhere and they move everywhere. Just because they pass through this station doesnt make that claim stand at all. All what it means is that the media has got a mission against this mosque thats all that that means.
11:45
Hardaker:
Abu Hamza has a close alliance with another Islamic extremist, Abu Qatada.
12:02
Reda
Hardaker: Do you regard him as a dangerous man?Reda: Very, very dangerous. He should be in prison, otherwise they are creating terrorist every day.
Hardaker:
Last month, the United States Treasury named him as being linked to the bin Laden terror group. His bank account was frozen by British authorities and was found to contain half a million dollars, even though hes received council housing benefits for several years.
12:19
Abu Qatada denies he has any link to al-Quaeda, but a world authority on terrorism says otherwise.
12:35
Roland Jacquard Roland Jacquard is a former counter terrorism adviser to the French Prime Minister. Hes investigated the influence of men like Abu Qatada and the Al-Quaeda network.
12:42
Jacquard:
Abu Qatada is a man very important. Hes an Islamic in England. Because he can, he is a man who is most involved with the propaganda of the bin Laden connections. And Bhegal is very close to this guy.
Paris, Statue of Liberty
Hardaker: Bhegal is Djamel Bhegal, who, until his recent arrest, was one of Europes most wanted men. The European head of Al-Quaeda, hes told investigators he was planning a second wave of attacks on US targets in Paris after the events of September 11. Bhegal revealed that hed frequented the Finsbury Park mosque. And he named Abu Qatada as the man whod recruited him and sent him to train in Afghanistan.
13:10
Jacquard
Super:Roland JacquardInt.
Observatory of Terrorism, Paris Jacquard: And after Bhegal is leaving this country to come back in France and for France he is coming back in England, and from England he is coming to Pakistan, Pakistan to Afghanistan, and training camp of Osama Bin Laden.
13:37
London Central Mosque
Hardaker:
Its now emerged that at least four young men graduated to the Al-Quaeda network after being exposed to the fundamentalist teachings of Abu Qatada, operating from this, the London Central Mosque.
13:59
Photo Zacarias Moussaoui
One was Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker of the World Trade Center suicide team. Moussaoui was arrested two weeks before the attacks after suspicions were raised about him at a pilot training school. His older brother, Abd Samad, was shocked to learn how Zacarias had transformed into an international terrorist.
14:12
Abd Samad:
I was watching television on September 11. And I saw images of the attack live, so making the link with the little brother youve grown up with someone youve played with and who you had a big brother / little brother relationship with and seeing something as shocking as that, really it took me the whole week to take it in.
Hardaker:
Abd Samad recalled that his brother had undergone a fundamental change after spending time in London with the extremist clerics, and he'd been alarmed at the literature his brother had been reading, the writings of one Islamic purist in particular.
15:08
Abd Samad: He says there is no possibility of co-operation with the western world and even studying in the western world is the first sign of intellectual corruption. He writes in these books that there is no other house possible than the house of Islam and theres no other way of relating to non-muslim people other than through war.
15:22
Protest Crowd
15:56
Reda:
London, its London Its the safe haven. There are many people as well as Abu Hamza or Abu Qatada who, if they were in France, for example, a long time ago they are in prison because the problem for example, when you say that as Abu Hamza or Abu Qatada incite people to kill other people . The British take it as freedom of speech.
Protest Crowd
16:51
Hardaker:
So far the British authorities have not responded to criticism of their performance. The radical Islamic leaders have been placed under closer scrutiny, but they are still free to spread their message of jihad or war to the west.
16:57
Jacquard:
I think that the British Government for a long has a low profile with the terrorists. They dont consider that they are dangerous. It seems that they can control them, it seems that these people, they dont want make attacks from London or in London because they are protected in Great Britain. But I think they make a big mistake because these kind of people play a double game each time.
17:18
Protest Crowd
Credits:
London Terror
Reporter: David Hardaker
Camera: Chris Albert, John Landy
Editors: Stuart Miller, Simon Brynjolffssen
Producers: Mary Ann Jolley, Jane Robinson, Ian Altschwager