A terrorist who bragged about helping Osama bin Laden mastermind the 9/11 attacks could be freed from a UK prison within days — despite officials declaring him a “risk to national security.”
Haroon Aswat — who previously set up an al-Qaeda training camp in the US — is set to be released from a secure psychiatric hospital unit where he’s currently locked up in the UK after he completes mental health treatment, The Sun reported.
The twisted terrorist will be cut loose without a full risk assessment because of a legal loophole under the country’s Mental Health Act — a decision that’s sparked widespread fury.
“This despicable man was behind one of the most deadly attacks in modern history. He should never experience freedom again,” the country’s shadow justice secretary, Robert Jenrick, said.
In 2015, Aswat — a known associate of bin Laden — was sentenced to 20 years in a US prison after he admitted to trying to start an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon.
While locked up in the US, he apparently confessed to helping to plot the despicable Sept. 11 attacks that killed thousands in New York as well as the 2005 bombings in the UK that left 52 people dead. --->READ MORE HERE
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Haroon Aswat could be released from secure hospital unit despite ‘grave concerns’ about the security risk
A jihadist set to be freed within days told inmates he masterminded the 9/11 and 7/7 terror attacks.
Haroon Aswat, 50, could be released from a secure hospital unit in the UK in the near future without a full risk assessment because of his mental health treatment.
He was jailed in 2015 in the US for 20 years after he admitted trying to start a terrorist training camp in Oregon.
Aswat was visited by a British psychiatrist in America before he was deported back to the UK in 2022 where he declared: “I’m a terrorist.”
Now newly surfaced US court documents, first reported by The Sun, show Aswat also confessed to being a “mastermind behind the [9/11] attacks and a 2005 attack in the UK”.
In addition to his connection to the 7/7 London terror bombings, which killed 52 people, Aswat has also threatened to murder Jews, Christians and certain sects of Muslims.
Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, said Aswat must remain behind bars for the rest of his life.
“This despicable man was behind one of the most deadly attacks in modern history. He should never experience freedom again,” he said.
Police have assessed Aswat and found he continues to be a security risk. However, a High Court judge has ruled he can be released from a secure hospital after completing treatment for mental ill-health.
Justice Robert Jay said the release of Aswat from his detention under the Mental Health Act was now expected in the “relatively near future”, enabling him to return to his family in Batley, West Yorkshire.
Despite officials admitting their concern and Mr Justice Jay acknowledging there was “evidence of an ongoing risk”, Aswat will only be subject to a notification order upon his release. --->READ MORE HERE
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