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Man arrested over suicide bomber DVD for children
A LEEDS man has been arrested by anti-terror police investigating a children's DVD which appears to glorify suicide bombings.
The 33-year-old, from Weetwood, was arrested at Manchester Airport yesterday as he arrived back in this country.
He was detained by officers from the Counter Terrorism Unit in Leeds on suspicion of distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred.
He was taken to police station in the city for questioning and was later bailed.
The DVD was handed in to West Yorkshire Police in December last year.
The disc shows a dramatisation of a girl vowing to follow in the steps of her suicide-bomber mother, set to music featuring children singing in Arabic.
All three of the DVD's tracks are sung by children in Arabic with English subtitles.
The first video shows an Arab woman playing with her two children before leaving her home with dynamite tucked into her dress.
Explosion
She is approached by uniformed soldiers and the camera pauses on her thoughtful expression before a large explosion blazes across the screen.
After finding out about the suicide on television, her small daughter finds a stick of dynamite in her mother's wardrobe and turns to the camera with the subtitles: "My love will not be by words. I will follow my mother's steps."
A West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said: "As part of ongoing inquiries into a DVD that was handed in to the counter terrorism unit in Leeds in December, officers arrested a 33-year-old man from Weetwood.
"He has now been bailed pending further inquiries."
West Yorkshire was home to three of the suicide bombers responsible for the July 7 London bombings – Mohammed Siddique Khan, from Dewsbury, and Hasib Mir Hussain and Shehzad Tanweer, both from Beeston in Leeds.
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