Extremist cleric to return (to the UK) for FREE heart operation
Daily Mail ^ | 10 August 2005
 

Hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed may undergo heart surgery in an NHS hospital if he returns to the UK. Bakri, who says he has a congenital heart problem, has already missed several appointments or had them postponed, friends said, but another one is likely to be scheduled before the end of the year.

The so-called "Tottenham Ayatollah" is currently in Lebanon but says he plans to return to the UK in a month's time. That would allow him to have a free operation which would otherwise cost thousands of pounds privately.

Bakri's health problem is understood to involve the narrowing of arteries in his heart and the likeliest operation is an angioplasty.

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His condition is believed to be exacerbated by his weight.

Friends say that, because he is missing a bone in his ankle, he is unable to exercise and that has contributed to the narrowing of his coronary arteries.
 

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