NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan official says a radical Muslim cleric who once served four years in a British prison for inciting murder and stirring racial hatred has been deported to the West African nation of Gambia.
The government official says Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal was deported Thursday morning on a Kenya Airways flight to Nigeria, where he will take a connecting flight to Banjul, Gambia.
The official was speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release the information.
El-Faisal had been stuck in Kenya after Britain, South Africa and Tanzania refused to let him transit through their countries.
The cleric, who was born in Jamaica, once led a British mosque attended by convicted terrorists Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui.