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- ↑ TERRORISM: Police launch campaign to prevent young British men fighting in Syria, ITN Source, YouTube, 17 March 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ↑ Twitter shuts down ISIS supporters and jihadists as MI5 launch anti-terror social media crackdown. Simon Wright, Nick Dorman & Colin Cortbus, The Mirror, 24 January 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ↑ Radical London preacher Abu Haleema banned from promoting his views online. Martin Bentham & Colin Cortbus, London Evening Standard , 26 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ↑ British extremist Abu Haleema turns to Australia. Rachel Olding, The Sydney Morning Herald New South Wales, 21 January 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
