A convicted al-Qaeda operative who once boasted about helping Osama bin Laden orchestrate the September 11 terror attacks may be released from a UK psychiatric facility within days.

Haroon Aswat, a British-born terrorist who set up an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon and claimed personal involvement in both the 9/11 attacks and the 2005 London bombings, is reportedly set to walk free without undergoing a full risk assessment.

Authorities have acknowledged that Aswat remains a “risk to national security.” Yet due to a technicality in the UK’s Mental Health Act, he is expected to be released from a secure psychiatric hospital where he has been undergoing treatment — despite no formal clearance by terror risk assessors.

“This despicable man was behind one of the most deadly attacks in modern history. He should never experience freedom again,” said Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, slamming the impending release as a catastrophic failure of the justice system.

A known confidant of radical cleric Abu Hamza and Osama bin Laden, Aswat was sentenced in 2015 to 20 years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to launch a jihadi training camp in rural Oregon. While incarcerated in the United States, he confessed to helping plan the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, and the 7/7 bombings in London that claimed 52 lives.

“In March 2017 the defendant stated, ‘If you think I am a terrorist, I don’t shy away from my responsibility,’” court documents read. He also admitted being “a mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks and the 2005 terrorist attack in the UK.”

In 2022, Aswat was deported back to the UK following a psychiatric evaluation by a British doctor. Despite repeated warnings from counterterrorism officials, a British judge recently ruled that Aswat’s release was imminent under mental health legislation — without a full national security review.

Even more concerning: once freed, Aswat will not be subjected to stringent monitoring. He will be placed under a notification order — a bare-minimum requirement mandating only that he register his address and inform police of any planned travel. There will be no curfew, no ankle monitor, and no restrictions on his communications or online activity.

“This is a man who trained terrorists, plotted mass murder, and gloried in his role,” said one senior security official speaking on background. “Releasing him into society with virtually no oversight is reckless. It’s an insult to every victim of the attacks he helped mastermind.”

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