Life term for Muslim cleric

A RADICAL Muslim cleric has been convicted on terrorism charges in a military court which sentenced him in absentia to life in prison, Lebanese officials said yesterday.

Life term for Muslim cleric

Omar Bakri Mohammed, who has Syrian citizenship, lived in Britain for 20 years where he headed the now-disbanded radical Islamist group al-Muhajiroun.

He left Britain for Lebanon in 2005 and the British government barred him from returning.

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