A press expose on terrorist videos openly on sale at a city centre mosque has been cleared of inaccuracy by the Press Complaints Commission.

It sent a letter to the Sunday Mercury to say a complaint that its article Terror videos for sale at the mosque was inaccurate had been thrown out.

Investigations editor Amardeep Bassey wrote how £5 tapes that glorified the September 11 attacks could be bought at a car boot sale in the grounds of a Birmingham mosque. Among the footage he revealed was an al Qaida terrorist in a flak jacket warning the West: “Dig your graves”.

Erdington man Abdul Ramin complained the item last month was inaccurate, but the letter from the Commission said it had studied his claims carefully and readers would not have been misled.

The letter said: “The Commission noted your contention that the videos were sold from a car outside the mosque, and not within.

“However, it also noted that the article did make clear that the reporter had bought a video from a car, which has been part of an area of sale attached to the mosque.

“The Commission generally takes the view that headlines can only be considered in light of the attached text, and in this case, considered that the precise location of the sale had been satisfactorily qualified in the article.”

The article has also made it clear that although the video was sold from the mosque courtyard, its sale was not sanctioned or condoned by the mosque itself.