A Libyan-born man who once featured on the UN al Qaeda “terror list” has offered to make tea for two officers from the Garda Special Detective Unit after he pleaded guilty to assaulting them.

A Libyan-born man who once featured on the UN’s al Qaeda “terror list” has avoided jail after a court heard he confronted a Garda Special Detective Unit officer and goaded her to shoot him.

THE country’s largest Islamic organisation has rejected reports that an Irish Muslim named in a British intelligence dossier on Libyan extremists is a “leading figure” in the community here.

A LIBYAN-BORN Irishman has been named by United States authorities as the director of a European al-Qaida cell.