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Report: BBC charity gave cash to London bombers' bookstore
By Haaretz Service
Tags: London, BBC, U.K.

A charity affiliated with the BBC donated significant sums of cash to a group that funded the propaganda efforts of the July 7 suicide bombers who killed 52 Londoners, the Times reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper reported that the charity, Children in Need, donated £20,000 to a community school in Leeds which shared space with an Islamic bookshop, a meeting point frequented by the bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shezhad Tanweer. One of the bombers screened radical Islamic films to Muslim youths at the bookstore, the Times reported.

News of the donation was revealed by the BBC Two's newsmagazine "Newsnight," the paper reported. A former worker at the school said the school also received hundreds of thousands of pounds from multiple sources, including the Leeds City Council, according to the Times.
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"I'm incredibly concerned that we did make an award to Leeds Community School over nine years ago and any allegation that funding we've given to any project has been misused and not used to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people makes me concerned and very sad," the head of the charity, David Ramsden, told the Times.
"I can reassure the public that we are very careful in who we fund and this allegation is a very rare one," Ramsden said.

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