‘I wasn’t running a terrorist organisation – I was helping the oppressed,’ says Anjem Choudary

Radical preacher Anjem Choudary insisted today he has never run a terrorist organisation and was just campaigning ‘for people who are oppressed.’ Choudary, 57, is accused of directing Al-Muhajiroun, and taking a ‘caretaker role’ with the banned militant network in 2014. The cleric, who was a member of Al-Muhajiroun (ALM) for many years, was arrested with Canadian ‘follower’ Khaled Hussain, 29, in July last year. He allegedly ascended to a leadership role in the absence of Al-Muhajiroun’s ‘spiritual leader’ Omar…