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Bin Laden man ‘recruited at UK mosques’

A key member of an Osama bin Laden cell which was set to unleash mayhem in Europe, today admitted that he recruited followers at mosques in Britain.

Bin Laden man ‘recruited at UK mosques’

Tue, 02 Oct, 2001 - 20:48

A key member of an Osama bin Laden cell which was set to unleash mayhem in Europe, today admitted that he recruited followers at mosques in Britain.

Djamel Beghal, 35, a French-Algerian, confessed to being involved in a bin Laden-backed plot to blow up the US embassy in Paris.

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