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Mohammed Hamid (preacher): what Wikipedia removed

Mohammed Hamid is a British citizen convicted of training the men behind the attempted 21 July 2005 London bombings. Through October 2023 the opening called him “a British national convicted of training terrorists for the unsuccessful 21 July 2005 London bombings.” Today the opening calls him “convicted of training the perpetrators of the attempted bombings,” and terror appears zero times in the opening though it survives twenty-two times in the article. A reader today learns he trained the perpetrators of a bombing attempt, and not that Wikipedia’s own opening once called those men terrorists.

The word “terror” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 22. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The description of Hamid as convicted of training terrorists, reworded to ‘perpetrators’ in the current opening.
  • A sentence on Hamid contacting the BBC after the bombing, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 351682534):

Mohammed Hamid (born 1957 in Tanzania to an Indian family) is a British national convicted of training terrorists for the unsuccessful 21 July 2005 London bombings . He is a former crack cocaine addict who found religion in the 1990s after a life of crime. He has been nicknamed “Osama bin London”. Before the bombing, Hamid was paid by BBC Two to appear in a program about Muslims paintballing that aired on June 12, 2005. He contacted the BBC after the bombing but they did not turn him in to the police. He was reportedly a follower of Anwar al-Awlaki . ^ “Top extremist recruiter is jailed” , BBC News . ^ “Terror trainer ‘Osama bin London’ jailed” , The Guardian ^ BBC knew of link to failed 21/…

2025 (revision 1298206504):

British-Tanzanian man convicted for a 2005 London bombing attempt Not to be confused with Mohammed Hamid (businessman) . ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Mohammed Hamid (born 1957 in Tanzania ) is a British citizen and Islamist extremist convicted of training the perpetrators of the attempted bombings in London on 21 July 2005 . He became radicalised and was a follower of the Jamaican extremist cleric Abdullah el-Faisal . He called himself “Osama Bin London” to an officer who was arresting him, and the nickname became popular in the press during his trial. There has been some questioning of the validity of his conviction. His training of those involved in the attacks was reporte…

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