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“World: Muslims In The West — Radical Believes Suicide Bombers Acted With Right Intentions (Part 3)”
September 02, 2005
By Kathleen Moore

SNIPPET: “Kelly says the London attacks were “allowed””

SNIPPET: “Authorities in Britain now have expanded powers to deport foreigners who promote terrorism, and they have already barred one prominent radical cleric, Omar Mohammad Bakri, from returning to Britain. In the third and final part of our series, RFE/RLspeaks to an associate of Bakri, who describes the London bombings as a “martyrdom operation.”
Prague, 2 September 2005 (RFE/RL) — Nearly a decade ago, Irish nurse Terence Kelly went to work in Saudi Arabia.

The salary was tax free. But Kelly soon found bigger money in making alcohol — a strictly forbidden activity in the kingdom.

He was caught and sent to jail, where an Afghan introduced him to Islam. Khalid Kelly, as he is now known, left prison a convert.

“It just filled in all the gaps, you know? It was like the answer to everything I’d every wondered about. There was even a Captain Ali there at the prison, and he gave me a Koran. And I’ll always remember it because he wrapped it in a piece of newspaper, you know, because he didn’t have any wrapping paper. And he was so happy for me. He was nearly crying, the man. He said, ‘I’m so happy you’ve come to the truth. It will change your life.’ And indeed it did,” Kelly says.

Kelly was deported to London three years ago and soon began attending sermons by the radical preacher Omar Mohammad Bakri.

He joined Bakri’s now disbanded group, Al-Muhajiroun, dismissed as fringe by mainstream Muslim groups.”

SNIPPET: “Kelly says he hopes to emigrate to somewhere in the Middle East.

These are worrying times in Britain, he says — and he doesn’t feel safe traveling on the subway or buses these days.”