British Muslim trained as suicide bomber

A Muslim living in Britain was training to be a suicide bomber:

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WHEN devout Muslim Saajid Badat was arrested by anti-terrorist police in November 2003 his local community in Gloucester was deeply shaken.

Badat, 25, a bright, well-educated man from a deeply religious family, had been living quietly and was described by neighbours as softly spoken and respectful.

Those who knew him painted a picture of a sociable, football-loving man who always spoke out if something was wrong.

Yesterday at the Old Bailey, that facade crumbled when the outwardly benign and often unassuming Badat admitted that he had trained as a suicide bomber and planned to wreak terror in the skies. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to place a device on an aircraft.

Badat had an identical device to the one used by his fellow Briton Richard Reid when he tried to bring down a flight from Paris to Miami.

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