File photograph shows Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary addressing members of the media during a protest supporting Shari'ah Law in north London October 31, 2009.
File photograph shows Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary addressing members of the media during a protest supporting Shari'ah Law in north London October 31, 2009. British police arrested nine men as part of an operation into Islamist-related militancy on Thursday, with media reporting the country's most high-profile radical Muslim preacher was among those held. The BBC and Sky News reported that one of the men held was Anjem Choudary, the former head of the now banned organisation al-Muhajiroun. REUTERS/Tal Cohen/Files

A 33-year-old and a 42-year-old were arrested in the early hours of Saturday by the anti-terror cops near Rugby in Warwickshire. They were hauled to the London police stations. Radical Muslim cleric, Anjem Choudary, was among nine men rounded up in an anti-terror raid at London on Friday night. Called the "most notorious Islamist hate preacher", according to Daily Mail, Choudary and the men have been charged with having encouraged terror as part of organizations that are banned.

According to Scotland Yard, on Friday, nine men, aged between 22 and 51, were arrested in 18 addresses in London, which also included two Tower Hamlets and sweet shops belonging to Choudary's brother Yazdani. Phones, laptops and desktop computers have also landed in forensic expert sections for analysis.

Choudary was earlier head of the Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, or Islam 4 UK, which had been banned by U.K. in 2010. He had injected radicalization into ISIS fighters, including the man believed to have murdered American journalist James Foley, reports foxnews.com,

The arrested men included Trevor Brooks, now called Abu Izzadeen. He too had rejoiced with Islamists in social networks on the beheading of hostages. Brooks had gloated when the Syrian bloodbath took place, baiting and jeering at Prime Minister David Cameron when the video of David Haines was released.

Tweets that led to Anjem Choudary arrest by those who doesn't tolerate the truth pic.twitter.com/CsuJ4zLn5C

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Last month, Choudary had said in a Hannity broadcast that Islamic law allows beheadings. On behalf of ISIS, he warned that Sharia law is "coming to a place near you." He refused to show any sympathy for a British aid worker, Alan Henning, who has received threats by ISIS terrorists. In an outraged reaction, Hannity answered that "eventually the world's going to wake up ... and every radical Islamist like you will be wiped off the face of the earth."

The anti-terror raids are on the eve of the Parliament gearing up to vote on British support to the U.S. drive against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. It is expected that Royal Air Force jets would be with the U.S. aircraft in the early part of the weekend.

Why did it take so long for cops to arrest these men, ask experts. The lawyer-turned-preacher, Choudary, and his gang have, after all, turned 'more brazen' since the Iraqi violence. He has been handing out inciting leaflets in Oxford Street.

The reason, according to analysts, is probably because Choudary has always been careful to remain on the "right side of the law." Earlier a lawyer and self-styled preacher, he calls himself an expert on Islamic or Sharia law, according to The Guardian. The arrests were not linked to any definite threat of attack, according to foxnews.com. But they have been made due to the acts of men which have seemed "... contrary to section 11 and 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and encouraging terrorism contrary to section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006."