A publishing house based in

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, Azzam Publications has been accused by the authorities of being ''"part of a conspiracy to provide material support and communications links to people engaged in terrorism"'' by authorities.

History

After the death of Abdullah Azzam, the publishers formed a group with the intent of publishing and spreading his militant ideology and related paramilitary manuals through print and Internet media. The publishing house operated from a London post office box (''Azzam Publications — BMC UHUD, LONDON, WC1N 3XX'') and an Internet site, www.azzam.com, that was shut down shortly after the

September 11, 2001 attacks The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...

Babar Ahmad Babar Ahmad ( ur, بابر احمد; born London, England, May 1974) is a British Muslim of Pakistani descent who spent eight years in prison without trial in the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2012 fighting extradition to the United States. The ...

, the administrator of ''Azzam Publications'', was extradited from the United Kingdom to the

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. In December 2013, he pleaded guilty to "conspiracy and providing material to support to terrorism" in a

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court.Extradited Briton Babar Ahmad admits terrorism offences
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* Publishing companies of the United Kingdom {{Publish-company-stub