Posted Sat Jul 7, 2007 5:28am AEST
ABC News
Related Story: Expert warns on jihadist doctors An Islamic which operates in Australia and the UK and has been accused of links to the London bomb plot has denied any involvement with terrorist organisations.
Yesterday Attorney-General Philip Ruddock signalled that authorities were looking at the Hizb ut-Tahrir group, which is currently legal in the UK and Australia.
Mr Ruddock was speaking after a Hizb ut-Tahrir defector from the UK, Ed Husain, warned Australian authorities to look at the group and said its leadership included a large number of doctors and engineers.
But Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wasim Doureihi told ABC TV's Lateline that acts of violence are against the group's "divine obligation".
Mr Doureihi said that any new investigation into his group would be nothing more than "political opportunism".
"They have conducted reviews previously, in this country and in the UK and other western countries, and there is no basis whatsoever under current legislation to tie Hizb ut-Tahrir to any form of violence," he said.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/07/1972461.htm?section=justin
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