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Fr Oct 20 -

MASKED ENCOUNTERS II:

The Second Shoe Drops -

*The Muslim teacher suspended for refusing to work without her veil is connected to a hardline mosque... The mosque is run by Tablighi Jamaat, a radical Islamic movement believed by intelligence agencies to be a fertile source for recruiting young extremists.

Two months ago, Tablighi emerged as a link between several of the men arrested over the plot to use liquid bombs to blow up transatlantic airliners.

Richard Reid, the jailed shoebomber who tried to blow up a flight to America, also attended mosques run by the group...

The mosque's school was criticised by Government inspectors for being less of a classroom and more of a madrassah - an Islamic teaching house where pupils learn the Koran by rote.*

Excerpted from this evening's

:: This is London ::

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