Latest news reports suggest that a number of British passport-holders were among those who carried out the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. If so, it would not be the first time that British men had perpetrated acts of jihadist terrorism abroad.

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Reports emanating from India suggest that "British citizens of Pakistani origin" took part in the recent terrorist atrocities in Mumbai.

A local Indian TV news channel initally reported the British connection, which Erika Mann, a German MEP trapped in the Taj Mahal Palace has said that the "attacks appear to have a European dimension". She said that several sources have assured her that "British citizens participated in the assaults."

Guest blog by Dominic Whiteman:

The fact that the notorious Vaiko (full name: Y Gopalasamy) has been allowed into the UK is bad enough. He is the leader of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhaham (MDMK) - a pro-LTTE (Tamil Tigers) party in Tamil Nadu, India.

But to let him speak tomorrow - as he is intending to - at an event called Heroes' Day (glorifying the deaths of LTTE cadres) at the London ExCeL Centre is both short-sighted and mistaken of the British Government, who have been taking advice from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils after originally refusing his visa application. Vaiko is now in London.

Banned Terrorist Group Plans Event Honouring Suicide Missions at the London ExCeL Centre

Heroes' Day, an event glorifying Tamil Tiger terrorist tactics, is due to take place later this month at the London ExCeL Centre in defiance of UK laws prohibiting the glorification of and support for terrorism.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, are a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK under the 2000 Terrorism Act. Membership of the LTTE, fundraising for the group and encouraging support for them are all prohibited in the UK. For the LTTE and its supporters, the 27th November is Heroes' Day. Past suicide missions are openly venerated and Velupillai Prabhakaran, the military and political leader of the LTTE, addresses crowds in many countries via video link-up to raise money and international support for the group.

The entire membership of the BNP has been leaked and published online today by 'disgruntled former employees'. The membership list dates from late last year and includes details of names, ages and postal and email addresses of more than 10,000 supporters, that also include children.

Bilal Abdulla, the accused in the London car bombings and Glasgow airport plot, has accepted that he is a terrorist "by the definition of the [Terrorist] Act, according to English law" and that it was his "aim to change opinion using violence, using fire devices".

Abdulla also said "Everyone was saying you are a terrorist, you are arrested under the Terrorism Act and so forth. That is my case in a nutshell. I am told I am a terrorist, but is your government not a terrorist, is your army not a terrorist?"

Guest blog by CSC research intern Manuel Ramos:

What is the best term to use to describe terrorism done in the name of Islam without offending Britain’s Muslim community?

Anti-Islamic activity? Community resilience?

The Saudi leader King Abdullah faces accusations of hypocrisy from a leading human rights organisation over a Saudi-sponsored two-day United Nations conference in New York to promote interfaith dialogue and religious tolerance, which began today.

The conference, reportedly part of the Saudi monarch's efforts to improve the international image of Islam in a Kingdom which has been linked to religious extremism following the September 11 attacks in 2001, will attract world leaders including the US president George Bush and the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Bilal Abdulla, the accused in the London and Glasgow car bombing trial, has told a jury that he “loved” England, considered it “home” and contemplated joining the British Army.

Abdulla, an Iraqi-UK citizen who was studying in Baghdad from the age of five, returned to the UK in 1999. However upon returning to the UK could not get on a medical course due to the cost. He had considered a career in the army as a way of contributing to his university fees.

Muslim reformers and critics of Islam around Europe are being silenced by Islamic extremists.

The new Centre for Social Cohesion report, Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Europe's Muslim Communities warns that unless European governments take urgent action to protect these individuals and their right to freedom of speech, Islamic extremists will be empowered and the evolution of a peaceful, tolerant 'European Islam' will never take place. The report is available here.

Neil Lewington has been arrested for possessing bomb making equipment and charged under the Terrorism Act for 'intending to commit an act of terrorism'. The unemployed and suspected Nazi-obsessed terrorist has appeared at Westminster Magistrate's Court in London.