One of the UK’s most dangerous terrorists will tell a parole hearing next week that he should be freed because he has finished a prison deradicalisation programme.
Ranzieb Ahmed - once said to be Osama bin Laden’s top European operative - will make his plea via video from his high security prison on Wednesday during a parole hearing that will test the appeal system to the limits.
MailOnline understands he will highlight the fact that he has successfully completed the year-long deradicalisation course and that is proof he is no longer a threat to the public.
The private hearing has the power to free Ahmed, the first person to be convicted in the UK of directing terrorism in 2008.
If he is granted a release on licence, Ahmed, 48, would be back on the streets in late October. His potential freedom has alarmed anti-terror experts.
Rochdale-born Ranzieb Ahmed - once said to be Osama bin Laden’s top European operative - will make his plea via video from his high security prison
The private hearing has the power to free Ahmed, the first person to be convicted in the UK of directing terrorism in 2008
Ahmed, was described former highest ranking Al-Qaeda operative in the UK.
Former head of UK Counter Terrorism Chris Phillips told MailOnline:’Here is the former highest ranking Al-Qaeda operative in the UK potentially being released back into the community. Is this a risk we should be taking?
‘He has a history of fighting and is very unlikely to have seen the light and become a pacifist. We know that terrorists can waltz through de-radicalisation programmes and still be committed to the terrorist cause.
‘The attacks in Fishmongers hall attest to these dangers.’
In 2008, then aged 33, a jury found him guilty of leading a three-man Al-Qaeda cell which was preparing to commit mass murder.
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Ranzieb Ahmed - once said to be Osama bin Laden’s top European operative - will make his plea via video from his high security prison on Wednesday during a parole hearing that will test the appeal system to the limits.
MailOnline understands he will highlight the fact that he has successfully completed the year-long deradicalisation course and that is proof he is no longer a threat to the public.
The private hearing has the power to free Ahmed, the first person to be convicted in the UK of directing terrorism in 2008.
If he is granted a release on licence, Ahmed, 48, would be back on the streets in late October. His potential freedom has alarmed anti-terror experts.
Rochdale-born Ranzieb Ahmed - once said to be Osama bin Laden’s top European operative - will make his plea via video from his high security prison
The private hearing has the power to free Ahmed, the first person to be convicted in the UK of directing terrorism in 2008
Ahmed, was described former highest ranking Al-Qaeda operative in the UK.
Former head of UK Counter Terrorism Chris Phillips told MailOnline:’Here is the former highest ranking Al-Qaeda operative in the UK potentially being released back into the community. Is this a risk we should be taking?
‘He has a history of fighting and is very unlikely to have seen the light and become a pacifist. We know that terrorists can waltz through de-radicalisation programmes and still be committed to the terrorist cause.
‘The attacks in Fishmongers hall attest to these dangers.’
In 2008, then aged 33, a jury found him guilty of leading a three-man Al-Qaeda cell which was preparing to commit mass murder.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nished-prison-deradicalisation-programme.html
