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November 28, 2005

UK: Mosque Leader Angered By Security Listing

82-year old Dr Mohammed Naseem is the chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque in the Midlands. He has revealed his outrage that he may be on a security list from MI6, one of Britain's two intelligence agencies, states ic Birmingham.

He claims he has been tipped off that he is being monitored by the security services, possibly MI6. He was told that his movements are being watched. As a result of the warning, he has stopped going abroad, and has been unable to visit family in Pakistan and a daughter in the US.

His views on the intelligence services indicate what could be construed as paranoia: "My anxiety comes from my suspicion that the secret services in this country may be beginning to act independently of the political establishment," he says.

"The CIA has apparently acted independently of the US Government and it worries me that MI5 and MI6 may be taking steps which are not discussed in or approved by Parliament."

Hundreds of Muslims are thought to be on UK security services' "watch lists", compiled since the 9/11 bombings in the US says ic Birmingham.

Naseem is said to be a moderate. He expelled members of Hizb ut-Tahrir from the Birmingham Central Mosque, and recently appealed for calm after the recent Birmingham riots.

However, he recently outraged many at a press conference which had been arranged in late August, following the arrest of a failed suicide bomber, Yasin Hassan Omar, in a Birmingham suburb. The meeting, according to the Telegraph had been arranged for police and religious leaders to allay fears among Muslims that they may be "targetted".

Haseem started off normally, but then shocked everyone on the podium when he began questioning the validity of closed circuit television pictures of the bombers from 7/7 and the subsequent failed suicide attacks. He called Tony Blair a liar, and said his evidence could not be relied upon.

He said he had no faith in the government system, and said that the DNA from the suspects from the first attacks from 7/7 probably got there because the bombers were actually innocent victims. "DNA can match you, but that does not mean you are going to commit a crime. Thousands of youths are passing by and caught on CCTV, so how do you know it is them?"

He wrote in the Mosque newsletter about the 7/7 bombers: "Where is the evidence that four youths whose pictures were caught on CCTV cameras....were the perpetrators? How did we reject the possibility they were just innocent victims of this terrible happening? They had bought return train tickets."

On the later suspects, about whom the meeting had been called, he said: "Some people have been caught but I have not seen any evidence. The process of law is not open."

Perhaps such unpredictable comments have helped the intelligence services to assume he is a supporter of terrorism.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 28, 2005 8:34 AM

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