Afghan leader's death: Man charged

General Masood is now regarded as a hero by Northern Alliance soldiers

LONDON, England (CNN) -- An Egyptian man arrested in London last week has been charged with conspiring to murder the leader of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance.

Yasser Al-Siri, 38, was charged with conspiring, with others, to murder Northern Alliance leader General Ahmed Shah Massoud, the charismatic opposition leader killed last month.

According to court documents lodged at the top-security Belmarsh Magistrates Court in southeast London, he is also charged with inviting support for a banned organisation: Al-Gamm'a Al-Islamiyya.

Further charges include inviting funds for the purpose of terrorism, making available property for the purposes of terrorism, and publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred.

Al-Siri appeared at a hearing before the magistrates court, and the charges were read to him. He was denied bail and was sent for trial at the Old Bailey criminal court in central London, where he is due to appear on November 7.

Al-Siri, who was arrested last week under Britain's Terrorism Act, was born in Egypt and has lived in London for eight years. He has been sentenced to death in Egypt for a bombing that killed a girl.

Massoud was killed in a suicide attack on September 9 as he began what he believed was an interview with two television journalists.

Four other members of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance were also killed when a bomb inside a television camera exploded.