Abu Ibrahim Sajeel Shahid is a man who was one of the leaders of

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, an Islamist group based in the United Kingdom that endorsed

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's terror attacks on

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. He was called the Emir or Lahore Emir and was the head of

in Pakistan.
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On 1 December 2001, an interview with Shahid was published in the ''

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'', in which he described fellow young men from the Manchester area travelling to Pakistan to fight beside the

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. In 2005, it was reported that Shahid had run a "safe house" in Lahore for violent extremists from the United Kingdom. The Pakistani government abducted and held Shahid in 2005 at an undisclosed location without access to the justice system for three-month before expelling him. PTI chief

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called Shahid's abduction and detention a gross human rights violation."PTI launches campaign to protect human rights"
''The Dawn'' During the 2007 trial of individuals suspected of involvement in the Luton cell's bomb plot the

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reported that the training camp in Pakistan where Mohammed Quayyam Khan and

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received bomb-making training had been allegedly set up by Shahid, and that

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was also suspected of involvement in training at a camp set up by Shahid. Shahid has a degree in

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from

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