Saturday, July 08, 2006

Angry young men / CNN, 8 Jul 2006

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/07/schuster.column/
Henry Schuster
"Khalid Kelly is angry, and that ought to worry you. As we mark the first anniversary of the London bombings and worry about the threat of homegrown terror in the United States, Kelly's story is instructive. His name alone gives a clue to the conflicting cultures he embodies. Now a London resident, Kelly is Irish Catholic by birth, Muslim by choice. He was an altar boy growing up in Dublin who went to Saudi Arabia several years ago to work as a nurse. He landed in prison where he embraced Islam, took the name Khalid, and came out -- by his own account -- a changed man. Fast-forward almost five years, and Khalid Kelly is an angry man. Angrier now, it seems, than he was a year ago, when four young British Muslims brought their holy war to central London, killing 52 people and wounding 700 in four suicide bombings on the city's transit system."