Radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed threatens Syria with a wave of suicide bombshttp://www.canada.com/news/Radical+cleric+Omar+Bakri+Mohammed+threatens+Syria+with+wave+suicide+bombs/6051523/story.htmlOmar Bakri Mohammed, the radical cleric banned from Britain for glorifying terrorism, has told The Daily Telegraph from his base in the Middle East that al-Qaida is poised to wage war against the Syrian regime.
Bakri, once nicknamed the Tottenham Ayatollah, said hard-line Salafi Muslim groups, including al-Qaida, and his al-Ghuraba group were ready to help their "Muslim brothers" with a campaign of suicide attacks against Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president. "In two or three operations, [al-Qaida] can make the Ba'ath party run away," he said.
"With self sacrifices operations - you call them suicide bombings - al-Qaida will go to the parliament when the Ba'ath are inside, he will explode and he will say 'Oh God receive me. Oh God I am hurrying towards you'.
"al-Qaida are so clever, they can make so many weapons from nothing. They can go to any kitchen, make a very nice pizza bomb and deliver it fresh," added Bakri.
Speaking from his new home in Lebanon, the self-styled cleric, who caused controversy after the 2005 London bombings by blaming them on the Government and British public, called the wave of pro-democracy revolutions that swept the Middle East in the past year, "al-Qaida's victory".
The dismantling of dictatorships and ruthless intelligence services had given Salafist groups room to breathe and the thousands of jailed Islamists in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, released as the regimes fell, had been perfect for recruiting.
