Osama Hassan Ahmed Mohammed (اسامة حسان أحمد) was arrested on 28 September 1998 in the United Kingdom under accusation of membership in
al-Jihad.
Along with seven other Middle Eastern men living in Britain, he was arrested in a raid called Operation Challenge, planned by the
Met,
MI5
The Security Service, also known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), G ...
, and the
FBI
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and approved under the
Prevention of Terrorism Act 1989.
[ The home office attempted to deport him to Cairo but the Egyptian government pushed back, saying they could not "guarantee his safety."][ Six months after the arrests, British Muslims staged a demonstration in front of 10 Downing Street to protest the continued incarceration of the seven men.][
In 1998, just prior to his arrest, Mohammed came to the UK from Albania.][ His wife, who lived in Hayes with their four children, had cancer.][
]
References
Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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