Tag: Anwar al-Awlaki

Responding to complaints from American and British officials, YouTube on Wednesday removed from its site some of the hundreds of videos featuring calls to jihad by Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric based in Yemen who has been blamed for radicalizing Muslims involved in a string of terrorist attacks.

On Tuesday, amid concerns that the cleric might have been linked to a thwarted plot to bomb cargo jets, prosecutors in Yemen charged Mr. Awlaki in absentia with inciting violence by sending Internet messages to a 19-year-old Yemeni man, who is on trial for murdering a French oil company worker last month, urging him to kill foreigners.

• Islam and terrorism

A Muslim woman who tried to kill a Labour MP by stabbing him in the stomach was jailed for life on Wednesday.

Roshonara Choudhry, a 21-year-old student, twice plunged a knife into former minister Stephen Timms when she went to meet him at his constituency office in east London on May 14 this year, shortly after the general election.

Judge Jeremy Cooke said Choudhry , reportedly after watching online sermons by Yemeni-US cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, would continue to be a danger to MPs for the foreseeable future and passed a life sentence with a minimum term of 15 years.

“You said you ruined the rest of your life. You said it was worth it. You said you wanted to be a martyr,” said Cooke, sitting at the Old Bailey…