Sayyed Ajami (سيد عجمي) was arrested in September 1998 in the United Kingdom, and accused of membership in
al-Jihad.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
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Summary of the Security Intelligence Report concerning Mahmoud Jaballah
22 February 2008. Appendix A.
He was arrested as part of Operation Challenge, which arrested seven men living in Britain through use of the
Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989, accusing them of links to al-Jihad.
[Hoge, Warren. ]New York Times
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, "Britain arrests 7 suspected of links to Bin Laden", 24 September 1998 One of the men was charged with possession of a weapon. Six months after the arrests, British Muslims staged a demonstration in front of
10 Downing Street
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to protest the continued incarceration of the seven men.
He had previously been arrested multiple times throughout the 1980s.
[ Brachman, Jarret. "Global Jihadism", p. 165]
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