(Wall Street Journal) Douglas Murray - It's that time of the year again: Somewhere in the world a Muslim radicalized in Britain will try to blow up innocent men, women and children in a suicide mission. That appears to have been the case of Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly. Authorities believe the Iraqi-born Swede gained his extremist views while at university in Luton, England, before he headed to Stockholm and detonated the bombs that killed himself and injured two Christmas shoppers last Saturday. On Dec. 22, 2001, a British man named Richard Reid tried to bring down a commercial flight from Paris to Miami with bombs placed in his shoes. Last year, Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab, formerly of University College London, tried to blow up a plane over Detroit with an explosive device concealed in his underpants. It's a story that is becoming familiar: Ordinary young man goes to Britain, most likely to study, and comes out an Islamic extremist.
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