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Londons Holy Turf War. Watch video here Vilified by the British tabloids, Choudary has however proved a difficult target for police. The only penalty he has ever faced was a £500 fine for organising an illegal demonstration outside the embassy of Denmark in London over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. In 2006, he was investigated, but not charged, after telling a rally that Pope Benedict should be executed for insulting Islam. In June last year, Cressida Dick, assistant commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, told a parliamentary committee that Scotland Yard was constantly assessing whether Choudarys preachings broke the law. Even before he became prime minister, David Cameron singled out the cleric for attention, saying in January 2010 that he needed close investigation as his comments came extremely close to the line of encouraging hatred, extremism and violence. In a series of tweets before his arrest, Choudary railed against airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, describing the intervention as a war on the worlds Muslims and decrying Arab states participating in the raids as puppets of the US.