A taxi driver accused of being an al-Qaeda member told a jury he lied that he was a terrorist to make money out of the media.
Habib Ahmed, 28, above, of Cheetham Hill, said he was working in a takeaway at the time he was supposed to be fighting the coalition forces in Afghanistan.
He boasted in an interview with The Sunday Times in March 2002 that he was an al-Qaeda agent who had defied the security services to slip back unnoticed into the UK.
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