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Can you guess the profession of the Muslim man in the center holding the inflammatory sign against British troops in Iraq?

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a) Proctologist

b) Standup comedian

c) Circus performer

d) Airport baggage handler

And the answer is…

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As if you didn’t guess.

A Muslim extremist who works as a baggage handler at Luton Airport had his security pass suspended today after it was revealed he took part in a protest hurling abuse at British troops.

Jalal Ahmed was among the 20-strong group of extremists protesting when the Royal Anglian Regiment returned home from Iraq earlier this week.

During their homecoming parade, he was spotted clutching a banner proclaiming: ‘Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basra’.

After he was revealed to be part of the hate-filled demonstration, his pass allowing him to go airside and work at the airport was revoked.

Ahmed, who is in his twenties and lives in Luton, works on a casual basis for Menzies Aviation, which provides baggage handling at the airport for easyJet and other airlines.

He is believed to have worked there during peak periods over the past two years and would have had access to secure areas of the site.

The Muslim, who is in his early 20s, is said to have once joked he was the nephew of Osama bin Laden and was also allegedly questioned over pictures of passenger jets.

He told officers he was interested in planes and no further action was taken.

John Menzies plc said he had passed all criminal and security checks but that his job would now be reviewed in light of his involvement in the protest on Tuesday.

‘All employees are subject to a five year criminal record check and airport authority checks before they can be given an airside pass to work on the airport, ‘ a spokesman said.

‘Jalal Ahmed passed these checks. We are now working with the airport authority to review the current position.’

The company insisted Ahmed would have been supervised at all times as he worked at the airport, where he is not a full-time employee.

Luton Borough Council, which owns the airport, said: ‘The Council has been assured that all employees at the Airport receive criminal record and security checks. We are unable to comment on individuals.

‘The issue of security is taken very seriously by the Council and the Airport Company.’

Budget airline easyJet, which is the main operator at Luton, made it clear Ahmed was not employed directly by them.

A spokesman said: ‘We are obviously working with his employers. We are working with Special Branch and we are aware his airside pass has been temporarily suspended.’

Update:  Also from the Britain is a Lost Cause department:

Britain on Thursday approved the visit to the country of Hizbullah official Ibrahim Moussawi to address a seminar on political Islam at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

The March 25 trip will mark the first official visit of a Hizbullah representative to the UK since the European boycott of the guerrilla group was lifted in 2005.

Conservative think tank, The Center for Social Cohesion (CSC), wrote to Home Secretary Jaqui Smith to protest the decision, and said it would instruct lawyers to seek an arrest warrant for Moussawi if he is allowed into the country.

CSC director Douglas Murray said the Home Office should apply its policy of banning entry to those who “stir up tension and provoke others to violence,” which was recently used to bar the Dutch lawmaker and Islam critic Geert Wilders.

Murray expressed concern that the government “finds it acceptable that an individual who incites hatred against the Jewish people and of Israelis should be permitted to enter.”

CSC researcher Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens called Moussawi “a member of a terrorist group that is ideologically devoted to the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews worldwide; a group which murders political opponents as a matter of policy and terrorizes members of the Lebanese population who dare to defy them.”

The decision to approve Moussawi’s entry comes a week after Bill Rammell, the Foreign Office minister for the Middle East, told the British Parliament that his government would hold discussions with Hizbullah’s political wing.

Rammell said that decision was made “in the light of more positive developments in Lebanon, and the formation of the national unity government in which Hizbullah is participating.”

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David Lange

A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
Picture of David Lange

David Lange

A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
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