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Publication: BBC News
Date: February 21, 2002
A Muslim cleric who allegedly sold
tapes urging his followers to kill Jews has been charged with incitement
to murder.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal allegedly
"encouraged others to murder persons unknown", a Scotland Yard spokesman
said on Wednesday.
The 38-year-old, of Stratford, east
London, is being held in custody and is due to appear at Bow Street Magistrates'
Court on Thursday.
He was arrested under the 1861 Offences
Against the Person Act by anti-terrorist squad officers at a house in Ilford,
Essex, at around 0700 GMT on Monday.
Sheikh Faisal was taken to a central
London police station where on Tuesday detectives were granted an extra
24 hours to question him.
He is formally accused of "soliciting
to murder", a little-used charge defined as encouraging, persuading, endeavouring
to persuade or proposing to any person to murder any other person.
