A convicted terrorist wanted by Interpol is serving on a Scotland Yard advisory board, reports the Times of London. Mohamed Ali Harrath, the subject of a "red alert" Interpol warning since 1992, was sentenced to 56 years in absentia in Tunisia for violence linked to a militant group there. But the British resident is serving on Scotland Yard's Muslim Contact Unit and is "regularly consulted on counter-terrorism issues," said an official. The Brits have refused to extradite him.
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