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UK Muslim chief threatens Pakistan leader

    LONDON, Sept 18, (Reuters)       *****

 - A hardline British-based Muslim leader said on Tuesday that his group
had issued a death threat against Pakistan's president for backing the
United States following the attacks on New York and Washington. 

Sheikh Omar Bakhri Mohammed said his Al-Muhajiroun organisation had
issued a fatwa, or religious edict, threatening Pakistan's military
ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, whose backing for the United States has
angered Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement. 

Bakhri said: "The fatwa is calling on Muslims to stand together and
support Muslims in Afghanistan and to reject the authority of
Musharraf."

Asked in a BBC radio interview if this amounted to a death threat, he
said: "The fatwa itself, yes, declares General Musharraf apostate and
therefore Muslims in the army should not support him.  They should
punish him for his crimes."

Washington suspects Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, who is based in
Afghanistan, of being behind last week's attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon and wants the Taliban to hand him over. 

British Foreign Office minister Peter Hain said authorities would study
Bakhri's comments to see whether they contravened Britain's recently
strengthened laws against terrorism. 

"Anybody organising finance, raising money or in any way supporting
terrorist activity, whether of the horrific kind we saw in New York last
week or anything that might similarly happen in the future, will be
caught by this legislation," Hain said. 

He added: "The chilling edict against General Musharraf is something
that will have to be looked at very carefully."

Earlier, police said an assault on a 19-year-old Muslim woman appeared
to be a response to the U.S.  attacks in which 5,000 people are dead or
missing. 

The woman was walking alone in Swindon, a town 120 km (75 miles) west of
London, on Friday night when she was approached by two white men, one of
whom attacked her with a baseball bat. 

"It appears that it is a race attack after the events of last week and
that's how it was viewed by the victim," a police spokeswoman said. 

Muslim leaders were to meet police to discuss the safety of their
community amid reports of such attacks, including an assault that
paralysed an Afghan taxi driver in London. 

Schools and mosques have been targets with threats against pupils and
graffiti attacks, Muslim leaders told Reuters. 

Police were investigating a suspicious fire outside a mosque in Bolton
in northern England on Monday night. 

11:27 09-18-01

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