Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Muslim official repeats bin Laden view / Financial Times, 22 Aug 2005

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Cathy Newman
"An official at the Muslim Council of Britain has repeated his view that Osama bin Laden was a 'freedom fighter' when he fought the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Inayat Bunglawala, the council's media secretary who has been appointed by the Home Office as a 'convener' of a government working group to combat extremism, told the Financial Times: 'He [Mr bin Laden] was a freedom fighter. He was regarded in large sections of the Muslim world before 2001 as a freedom fighter for what he had done in Afghanistan.'"