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7/7 bombers 'benefited from BBC charity money'
The 7/7 bombers used thousands of pounds from BBC Children In Need charity donations to fund their terrorist activities.
- Evening Standard
- Published: 23:43 August 20, 2008
London: The 7/7 bombers used thousands of pounds from BBC Children In Need charity donations to fund their terrorist activities.
The Corporation said it gave £20,000 (Dh138.000) from Children In Need to the Leeds Community School in Beeston, West Yorkshire, in 1998 and 1999.
The money was given "in good faith" to fund educational work for local children. The school shared premises and funding with the Iqra bookshop, where the 7/7 plot mastermind Mohammad Sidique Khan and Aldgate Tube bomber Shehzad Tanweer worked.
The school and the bookshop, which were registered charities, handed out DVDs and books about Bosnia and Chechnya and held Arabic classes. They also produced a leaflet blaming the 9/11 attacks on a Jewish conspiracy.
Khan and Tanweer used the money donated by viewers of the charity show to produce propaganda videos and to pay for training camps.
A relative of one of the 52 innocent people who died in the attacks reacted angrily to the BBC probe disclosure. Graham Foulkes, whose son David, 22, was killed at Edgware Road, said he was "absolutely horrified".
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