A British citizen who converted to Islam and joined al-Qaida said in an interview with a British paper Tuesday that he had planned to assassinate King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, carry out terror attacks in London and blow up the U.S. Embassy in Qatar.
The man, using the pseudonym Abu Omar, told the Evening Standard that one of the masterminds of the September 11 bombings, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, instructed him to carry out terror attacks in Britain.
He said that he had spent a number of years in terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, adding that he "regretted" his decision to join al-Qaida and hoped that Muslims in Britain would shun extremism.
