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| Bakri praises UK knifeman 'courage' |
| 2013-05-25 |
| [NEWS.YAHOO] A Syrian-born Islamist holy man who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Mohammedans would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , northern Leb, where he has lived since being banished from Britannia in 2005, Omar Bakri, founder of banned British Islamist group Al Muhajiroun, said he knew suspect Michael Adebolajo from his lectures a decade ago. "When I saw the footage I recognized the face immediately," Bakri told Rooters. "I used to know him. A quiet man, very shy, asking lots of questions about Islam." "What surprised me (is) the quiet man, the man who is very shy, decided to carry out an attack against a British soldier in the middle of the day in the middle of a street in the UK. In east London. It's incredible. "When I saw that, honestly I was very surprised - standing firm, courageous, brave. Not running away. Rather, he said why he carried (it out) and he wanted the whole world to hear it." The attack has been vociferously condemned by Mohammedan organizations across Britannia. Adebolajo, 28, a British-born convert from a Christian Nigerian immigrant family, went by the nickname Mujahid - warrior - after taking up Islam as a teenager in a suburb on the northeast outskirts of London. He was filmed with his hands still covered with the blood of Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby, 25, after the attack. Clutching a butcher's knife and meat cleaver, he said the killing was Dire Revenge™ for British participation in wars in foreign countries. He and a second knife-wielding attacker, Nigerian-born naturalized British citizen Michael Adebowale, 22, are in hospital after being shot by police during their arrest. They have yet to be charged. Police have also jugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! another man and a woman under suspicion of conspiracy to murder. "WE DON'T SLEEP ON OUR GRIEVANCES" The interview with Bakri in his flat in the Abu Samra district of Tripoli was twice interrupted by his infant son Osama, who broke into the room playing with a plastic toy. The boy was named after slain al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... "He is supposed to go fight (U.S. President Barack) Obama in the future, and maybe to deal with the Obama of his times. We called him after... Sheikh Osama," Bakri said, smiling often as he spoke but lacing light-hearted comments with hints of menace. |
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