The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 13th, 2003
HE SITS on his bed studying the Koran. Behind him the wall is decorated with photographs of pretty girls.
It's an incongruous image but Feroz Abbasi, according to his friends, was always an unlikely Muslim extremist.
Growing up in Croydon, South-West London, he was a high-achieving schoolboy who was more interested in computers and Michael Jackson than religion.
His ambition was to be the world's first black astronaut.
But at the age of 19 the former school prefect abandoned Western values and embraced militant Islam.
He left Britain to fight in Afghanistan before being arrested in Dece...
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