Sajeel Shahid is one of the leaders of Al-Muhajiroun

Al-Muhajiroun

Al-Muhajiroun is a banned Islamist organisation that was based in Britain and which has been linked to international terrorism, homophobia and anti-semitism...

, an Islamist group based in the United Kingdom

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that endorsed al Qaeda's terror attacks on September 11, 2001.

In 2004 he was a member of a panel of Al-Muhajiroun leaders interviewed by BBC Newsnight which quoted him as saying,

"When they speak about September 11th, when the two planes magnificently run through those buildings, OK and people turn around and say, 'hang on a second, that is barbaric. Why did you have to do that?' You know why? Because of ignorance. ... For us it's retaliation. Islam is not the starter of wars. If you start the war we won't turn the other cheek. ... According to you it can't be right. According to Islam it's right. When you talk about innocent civilians, do you not kill innocent civilians in Iraq?"

In 2005 Nick Fielding

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-Journalism:Nick Fielding is a former senior reporter on the Sunday Times and was chief investigative reporter on the Mail on Sunday. At the MoS he broke the story of the renegade MI5 officer David Shayler, and for the Sunday Times he covered the story of Richard Tomlinson, a MI6 whistleblower...

, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Sajeel Shahid had run a Lahore safe house for
violent extremists from the United Kingdom.
Pakistan expelled him in 2005, after three months of detention.

In 2007 Padraic Flanagan, writing in the Daily Express

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, reported that Sajedl Shahid had gone underground, and had not been found to testify at the trials of other British muslims for bombing.

Sajeel Shahid has a degree in computer science

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 from Manchester

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