Hate preacher Anjem Choudary was a free man last night despite fears that he will "wage war" on Britain. The Islamic extremist, who was released from prison yesterday, smiled as he posed for photographs outside his bail hostel. Lucinda Creighton, former Irish minister for European affairs and a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, said: "Intelligence reports link Anjem Choudary to 100 terror recruits and the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. "Message-carriers like Choudary have been as important to terrorist as guns, bombs and financing. To win the battle against violent extremism, it is as important to limit recruiters' room for manoeuvre as it is to restrict the flow of weapons and cash. To effectively counter messages of violence and hate, we need to work not just with the messenger but with whom the message is designed to land - with the communities receiving radicals. When men like Choudary re-enter the public sphere, the true test of counterterrorism policy - anti-radicalisation - begins.”