A MUSLIM chef from Kidbrooke who was cleared of terror charges may sue the Metropolitan Police and a London evening newspaper.

Days after the September 11 atrocities Suleyman Zain Ul-Abidin was singled out by the Evening Standard for running a website - which it claimed invited Islamic fundamentalists to train for jihad, or holy war.

He was arrested and charged with offering weapons training under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1990.

After spending more than ten months on remand in Belmarsh Prison, he was cleared at his Old Bailey trial last week.

Mr Zain-Ulabidin, who has been rendered homeless by the imprisonment, is currently discussing with his solicitor legal action against the Met for wrongful arrest, and the Standard over the story.

After reading it he approached the Met to install a panic button in his Ryan Close flat, through his fear of reprisals caused by the report.

But officers arrested him on terror charges shortly after fitting the alarm.

Speaking yesterday, the 44-year-old insisted he had been scapegoated by the Met and the newspaper, as anti-Islam fe-ver ran high on London's streets last Autumn.

Mr Zain-Ulabidin said: "They did a character assassination on me, saying I had £30m in the bank and was re-sponsible for this and that.

"All of this from a one bedroom flat. It's just a joke."

Asked what his gut reaction to Trade Centre attacks was, he said: "It was un-Islamic. There is no way you can justify it in Is-lam.

"I knew people would use that to attack Islam and that's exactly what happened."