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Ofcom rejects Hizb ut-Tahrir’s complaint against Panorama

September 4, 2008 10:29

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Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

1 min read

Ofcom, the broadcasting watchdog, has rejected a complaint of unfairness made by the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain against the BBC.

Hizb ut-Tahrir lodged a protest against a Panorama programme in October last year presented by a former member, Shiraz Maher.

One of its complaints concerned a claim that Omar Sharif, the would-be British suicide bomber who was involved in a fatal attack on a Tel Aviv bar, had been influenced by the group.

Sharif's fellow Briton, Asif Hanif, killed three people with a suicidal attack on Mike's Place in 2003, but his own device failed to go off and his body was found on a beach a few days later.

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