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[[Omar Bakri Muhammad]] is the founder of [[Al-Muhajiroun]].

Bakri was born in Syria in 1958.<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.</ref> He left that country in 1982, following the [[Hafez al-Assad|Assad]] regime's repression of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] revolt in which he had taken part.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref> He founded Al-Muhajiroun in Saudi Arabia in 1983.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref> Following the proscription of Al-Muhajiroun in Saudi Arabia, Bakri fled to Britain in 1986.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref>

Bakri subsequently became leader of the British branch of [[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]].<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.</ref> He was arrested in 1991 after saying that [[John Major]] was a legitimate target for assassination as a result of the Gulf War.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref> He was not charged over the incident.<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.113.</ref>

During the 1990s he supported the KLA in Kosovo.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref> The American intelligence writer John Loftus has claimed he was working with British intelligence at this time.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref>

Bakri split with[[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]] in early 1996, when he formed his own separate [[Al-Muhajiroun]] organisation.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>

Journalist Mark Curtis reports that in the late 1990s, Bakr claimed to be operating in Britain under a 'covenant of security' with the British state.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.243.</ref> This must be treated with some caution as it is sourced to a [[MEMRI]] report.<Yotam Feldner, [http://www.memri.org/report/en/print535.htm Radical Islamist Profiles (2): Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad - London], MEMRI, 25 October 2001.</ref> MEMRI in turn cites an interview with Bakri by [[Patrick Goodenough]] for a news site associated with the US conservative movement, CNSNews.com.<ref>Patrick Goodenough, [http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/uk-muslims-being-trained-us-jihad UK Muslims Being Trained in US for Jihad], CNSnews.com, 24 May 2000.</ref>

Bakri left Britain for Lebanon a month after the 2005 London bombings. The Home Secretary [[Charles Clarke]] announced in 2006, that he would not be allowed to return to Britain.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.274.</ref> Mark Curtis suggests that this was an arrangement designed to conceal potentially embarrassing past links between Bakri and the intelligence community.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.275.</ref>

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	Bakri left Britain for Lebanon a month after the 2005 London bombings. The Home Secretary [[Charles Clarke]] announced in 2006, that he would not be allowed to return to Britain.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.274.</ref> Mark Curtis suggests that this was an arrangement designed to conceal potentially embarrassing past links between Bakri and the intelligence community.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.275.</ref>		Bakri left Britain for Lebanon a month after the 2005 London bombings. The Home Secretary [[Charles Clarke]] announced in 2006, that he would not be allowed to return to Britain.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.274.</ref> Mark Curtis suggests that this was an arrangement designed to conceal potentially embarrassing past links between Bakri and the intelligence community.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.275.</ref>
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		+	==External resources==
		+	*Mahan Abedin, [http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=290&no_cache=1#.VzHm9zArK9I Al-Muhajiroun in the UK: An Interview with Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed], ''Jamestown Foundation'', 25 May 2005.

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 [[Omar Bakri Muhammad]] is the founder of [[Al-Muhajiroun]].
 Bakri was born in Syria in 1958.<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.</ref> He left that country in 1982, following the [[Hafez al-Assad|Assad]] regime's repression of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] revolt in which he had taken part.<ref>Mark Curtis, ''Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam'', Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>  He founded [[Al-Muhajiroun]] in Saudi Arabia in 1983.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref> Following the proscription of Al-Muhajiroun in Saudi Arabia, Bakri fled to Britain in 1986.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref>
 Bakri subsequently became leader of the British branch of [[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]].<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.105.</ref> He was arrested in 1991 after saying that [[John Major]] was a legitimate target for assassination as a result of the Gulf War.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>  He was not charged over the incident.<ref>Sean O'Neill and Daniel McGrory, ''The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque'', HarperCollins, 2006, p.113.</ref>
 During the 1990s he supported the KLA in Kosovo.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref> The American intelligence writer John Loftus has claimed he was working with British intelligence at this time.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref>
+==Forms Al-Muhajiroun==
 Bakri split with [[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]] in early 1996, when he formed his own separate Al-Muhajiroun organisation.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>

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 During the 1990s he supported the KLA in Kosovo.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.245.</ref> The American intelligence writer John Loftus has claimed he was working with British intelligence at this time.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.244.</ref>
-Bakri split with[[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]] in early 1996, when he formed his own separate Al-Muhajiroun organisation.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>
+Bakri split with [[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]] in early 1996, when he formed his own separate Al-Muhajiroun organisation.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>
 Journalist Mark Curtis reports that in the late 1990s, Bakr claimed to be operating in Britain under a 'covenant of security' with the British state.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.243.</ref> This must be treated with some caution as it is sourced to a [[MEMRI]] report.<ref>Yotam Feldner, [http://www.memri.org/report/en/print535.htm Radical Islamist Profiles (2): Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad - London], MEMRI, 25 October 2001.</ref>  MEMRI in turn cites an interview with Bakri by [[Patrick Goodenough]] for a news site associated with the US conservative movement, CNSNews.com.<ref>Patrick Goodenough, [http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/uk-muslims-being-trained-us-jihad UK Muslims Being Trained in US for Jihad], CNSnews.com, 24 May 2000.</ref>

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 Bakri split with[[Hizb-ut-Tahrir]] in early 1996, when he formed his own separate Al-Muhajiroun organisation.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.273.</ref>
-Journalist Mark Curtis reports that in the late 1990s, Bakr claimed to be operating in Britain under a 'covenant of security' with the British state.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.243.</ref> This must be treated with some caution as it is sourced to a [[MEMRI]] report.<Yotam Feldner, [http://www.memri.org/report/en/print535.htm Radical Islamist Profiles (2): Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad - London], MEMRI, 25 October 2001.</ref>  MEMRI in turn cites an interview with Bakri by [[Patrick Goodenough]] for a news site associated with the US conservative movement, CNSNews.com.<ref>Patrick Goodenough, [http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/uk-muslims-being-trained-us-jihad UK Muslims Being Trained in US for Jihad], CNSnews.com, 24 May 2000.</ref>
+Journalist Mark Curtis reports that in the late 1990s, Bakr claimed to be operating in Britain under a 'covenant of security' with the British state.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.243.</ref> This must be treated with some caution as it is sourced to a [[MEMRI]] report.<ref>Yotam Feldner, [http://www.memri.org/report/en/print535.htm Radical Islamist Profiles (2): Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad - London], MEMRI, 25 October 2001.</ref>  MEMRI in turn cites an interview with Bakri by [[Patrick Goodenough]] for a news site associated with the US conservative movement, CNSNews.com.<ref>Patrick Goodenough, [http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/uk-muslims-being-trained-us-jihad UK Muslims Being Trained in US for Jihad], CNSnews.com, 24 May 2000.</ref>
 Bakri left Britain for Lebanon a month after the 2005 London bombings. The Home Secretary [[Charles Clarke]] announced in 2006, that he would not be allowed to return to Britain.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.274.</ref> Mark Curtis suggests that this was an arrangement designed to conceal potentially embarrassing past links between Bakri and the intelligence community.<ref>Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tale, 2010, p.275.</ref>