Sajeel Shahid
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Who is Sajeel Shahid?
Sajeel Shahid also spelt as Sajil Shahid was one of the leaders of Al-Muhajiroun, an Islamist group based in the United Kingdom that endorsed al Qaeda's terror attacks on September 11, 2001. He was called the Emir or Lahore Emir and was the head of Al-Muhajiroun in Pakistan. On December 1, 2001, an interview with Shahid was published in the Manchester Evening News, in which he described fellow young men from the Manchester area traveling to Pakistan to fight beside the Taliban.
In 2005, it was reported that Shahid had run a "safe house" in Lahore for violent extremists from the United Kingdom. The Pakistani government abducted and held Shahid in 2005 at an undisclosed location without access to the justice system for three month before expelling him. PTI chief Imran Khan called Shahid's abduction and detention a gross human rights violation.
During the 2007 trial of individuals suspected of involvement in the Luton cell's bomb plot the Daily Mail and BBC reported that the training camp in Pakistan where Mohammed Quayyam Khan and Omar Khyam received bomb-making training had been allegedly set up by Shahid.
The Daily Mail and BBC reported that Mohammed Siddique Khan was also suspected of involvement in training at a camp set up by Shahid.
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