Teacher's 9/11 boasts

By SIMON HUGHES A TEACHER whose brother was a suicide bomber told pupils after 9/11: “I am on Osama Bin Laden’s team.” Parveen Sharif, 37, asked other schoolkids: “Hands up everybody who has got relations in New York?” She added: “Well they’re dead.” Parveen was acquitted yesterday of sending an email inciting her brother Omar, 27, to carry out a suicide bomb attack. But juries at two trials had NOT been told of her sickening outbursts after it was ruled they might be prejudicial. The first was made to pupils the day after the Twin Towers massacre in 2001, which left 2,819 dead. Bombers ... Parveen's brother Omar, right, and fellow Brit Asif Hanif Children at Somerlea Park Junior School in Alfreton, Derbys, complained that she insisted Bin Laden should not be blamed and said it was wrong for the US to attack Afghanistan. Senior staff protested to the agency which employed her and she was withdrawn that night. Supply teacher Parveen made more pro-Bin Laden remarks to a class of 30 nine and ten-year-olds at Grampian School, Derby, on September 25. Three were so upset their parents complained. The school told Parveen’s agency not to send her again. Sue Penglase, headmistress at the time, recalled: “The comments were totally inappropriate. We did not want this woman back.” http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005550268,00.html Yesterday Parveen and brother Zahid were also cleared of failing to tell authorities Omar planned a suicide outrage in Israel — the first by British Muslims. Omar — who posed clutching an AK47 rifle with another British bomber — failed to detonate his device in 2003. He killed himself in shame. Jurors failed to reach verdicts last year on Parveen and Zahid, 39, both from Derby. Yesterday, they hugged outside the Old Bailey as they were cleared after a re-trial. The pair said: “We did not know what our brother was going to do. It shocked us.”