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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Nadeem Badshah

‘Serious blunder’ over Islamic State murder of Rochdale imam

Jalal Uddin
Uddin was targeted because he practised a form of Islamic healing the terrorist group regarded as blasphemous. Photograph: Greater Manchester police/PA

A “serious blunder” led to missed opportunities to disrupt a plot by Islamic State extremists to murder an imam in Greater Manchester, a public inquiry has found.

Jalal Uddin, 71, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in a public park in Rochdale by Mohammed Kadir, then aged 24, because he practised a form of Islamic healing known as ruqyah that the terrorist group regarded as blasphemous and “black magic”.

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