When he was inside Long Lartin high-security jail, Abu Qatada issued a 6,000-word statement to his followers which he had smuggled out through a vistor and had posted on jihadi websites.

In it he praised the Mujahidin and the 'martyrs of Hamas' and claims his treatment is helping to radicalise a new generation of young British Muslims.

In the statement he says: ' A new generation of the Muslim youth has been raised and especially amongst our brothers who originate from the Indian subcontinent, who were no longer mesmerised by the English authority, nor English values - rather they hate it and they know its enmity towards them, so they have become enemies towards it.'

He also boasts that prison has helped him lose more than 50lb in weight and he has been cured of diabetes and back problems.

The cleric claims that Bilal Abdullah, the NHS doctor jailed for the car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow in 2007, told him he was heavily influenced by his taped sermons.


It could only happen here in the UK !