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My Son Was Killed in Peshawar, Not Arrested in U.K.: Azam’s Mother
By
Ali Sabri, IOL Amman Correspondent
AMMAN,
September 19 (IslamOnline) – The widow of Dr. Abdullah Azam denied
Thursday, September 19, that her son Mohamed was arrested in London for
gathering information to be used by what the U.K. called “Islamist
hardliners” in their planning for terrorist attacks.
She
said in an interview with IslamOnline that her son Mohamed was martyred
along with his father and brother in 1989 in Peshawar, adding that her
other three sons Hozayfa, Mos‘ab and Hamza are safe and sound, and
were currently living with her in the Jordanian capital Amman since
1996.
The
British daily newspaper, the Independent, said Thursday that a Muslim
computer programmer called Mohammed Abdullah Azam, has been charged
under the Terrorism Act of allegedly collecting information that could
be used by terrorists.
Azam,
32, from Luton, Bedfordshire, was charged last night, having been
arrested on Sunday, September 15, the paper claimed, adding that he is
due to appear at Bow Street magistrates’ court in central London
today.
Two
21-year-old men and a man aged 23, who were also arrested under the
Terrorism Act in Luton on Sunday were released Wednesday, September 18,
the daily added.
A
Scotland Yard spokesman said Azam had been charged under Section 58 of
the Terrorism Act 2000 that he allegedly collected information of a kind
likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of
terrorism or had in his possession documents or records containing
information of that kind, it added.
On
September 6, David Veness, the head of Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist
squad, said there was no known specific threat to Britain and he called
on people to carry on with “business as usual”, the paper added.
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