A BURY student who said he recruited about 200 British Muslims to fight in Afghanistan for the Taliban is being detained under the Terrorism Act.
Former Bury College student Hassan Butt, aged 22, was arrested in Manchester on Monday.
Butt, who is being detained in London, was at the centre of a row in January after making the claims on a BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
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