Two Islamic extremists – one jailed TWICE for terror offences – are back on the streets after serving half their sentences.
Shah Jalal Hussain and Jahanagir Alom are out on licence despite a Tory pledge to end automatic early release for convicted terrorists.
Crimes the pair were involved in included plotting attacks and fundraising for terrorism.
Hussain, 32, has said he believes Downing Street is a “legitimate target” for suicide attacks and that he wished he had been a 9/11 bomber.
Alom was caught with two others who were plotting an attack on Wootton Bassett where dead soldiers were repatriated from Afghanistan.
When approached by the Sunday Mirror both men refused to say whether they had renounced their twisted beliefs. Hussain insisted: “I’ve done my time.”
Yet in 2013 Tory Justice Secretary Chris Grayling insisted terrorists should serve their jail terms.
He said: “It’s outrageous that offenders who commit some truly horrific crimes in this country are automatically released from prison halfway through their sentence, regardless of their behaviour, attitude and engagement in their own rehabilitation. We need to teach criminals a lesson.”
Last night Muslim Labour MP Khalid Mahmood slammed the early releases as making a mockery of the Tory terror crackdown.
He said: “By releasing these people early, they are not protecting the communities they are meant to serve. They are putting further apprehension in the community.”
Both men are back at their East London homes and understood to be monitored by the probation service, but appear to have little restriction on their movements.
Hussain was freed on December 5 after just 18 months of a three-year sentence for disseminating terrorist material and encouraging terrorism.
He ran a website showing video rants by hate clerics such as Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada.
In 2008, the fanatic, who has a wife and young child, was convicted of collecting money for terrorists in Iraq and got two years. He was freed early despite encouraging terror attacks abroad and making fundraising pleas during speeches at the Regent’s Park Mosque in London.
He bragged that he wanted to knife former President George Bush and said: “When I heard an aeroplane had been flown into the Pentagon, I wished I had been the pilot.”.
After his release Hussain, of Whitechapel, continued to appear in radical videos online and was arrested again in June 2013.
Alom, the second extremist released early, got four and a half years in April 2013 for preparing acts of terrorism. He had been on remand since his arrest shortly before the London 2012 Olympics. He and two others were caught plotting an attack on Wootton Bassett.
Police and the security services monitored Alom, 28, and his accomplices for months. Alom had travelled to and from Pakistan to try to get terrorist training.
This week he was back at home in Stratford. When approached he said: “I can’t say anything.” He insisted only his solicitor could answer questions for him, but refused to name him.
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