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Homegrown assassin: A British Muslim woman inspired by al Qaida was convicted this week of trying to kill her local member of Parliament. Roshonara Choudhry, 21, stabbed MP Stephen Timms in the stomach at his office last May because he supported the Iraq war. “I wanted to kill him,” she said. “I was going to get revenge for the people of Iraq.” It was the first Islamist terrorist attack in Britain since the 2005 bombings of London’s transport system. Prosecutors said Choudhry, a gifted university student born in the U.K. to Bangladeshi parents, was radicalized by the Internet sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of the Yemeni branch of al Qaida. He urges Muslims to strike out against the West any way they can.

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