What is a peace talk jail fanatic? Anyway:
A notorious hate preacher has been isolated for his own safety after telling other terror inmates the Koran does not justify violence.
Atilla Ahmet, 44, also shocked fanatical Muslim prisoners by stepping in to protect a guard who was attacked.
The ex-bodyguard of Abu Hamza, who was exposed by the Mirror three years ago, even apologised to the targets of his past extremist rants.
Now Ahmet - jailed in March for nearly seven years for soliciting murder - has been moved to a hospital wing for prisoners at risk of attack.
One insider said: "For one of them to admit that even parts of their message were wrong and unjustified is a significant development."
Ahmet remains a devout Muslim praying five times a day at Belmarsh prison in South East London.
His change of heart comes as the Chief Inspector of Prisons warned that staff at the jail were not trained enough to stop radicalisation.
Ahmet helped Abu Hamza poison the minds of hundreds of young Muslims at Finsbury Park mosque in North London. The Mirror recorded him ranting about "filthy unbelievers".
He was kicked out by mosque leaders the day after our story.
I disputed the Mirror article at the time. I thought Atilla preached homophobia and I didn't like the words he used about "Jews" but he would usually qualify that he meant "Zionists" and his audience knew that. Anyway things are now in a very different perspective to when I wrote the piece, thinking my doco was in the bag! How naive.
He's been talking to Rachel
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