Terror group the Government failed to ban reforms

Jun. 17, 2009
Omar Bakri Mohammed the exiled leader of one radical group alMuhajiroun said it would reform after it emerged that the Home Office had banned offshoots of the group but not the organisation itself after it disbanded in 2004.
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