Freed saboteur flies into UK

Kamel pictured after his release

LONDON, England -- The son of the London-based militant Abu Hamza al-Masri flew into the UK after being released from a Yemeni jail on attempted sabotage charges.

Al-Masri, an Egyptian-born preacher at a mosque in Finsbury Park, north London, is a controversial figure, who has been linked with men arrested following the September 11 terror attacks.

His British son, Mohammed Mustafa Kamel, arrived at Heathrow airport on Saturday dressed in traditional Islamic dress having been extradited after serving three years' imprisonment for plotting sabotage in Yemen.

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His solicitor criticised the British government for not having done enough to protect him and other British defendants in the trial.

Kamel's solicitor told the UK's Press Association: "He holds the British Government responsible for not acting sufficiently robustly on his behalf as a British citizen to prevent this miscarriage of justice from taking place."

Kamel was accused of masterminding a plot by Islamic Fundamentalists to bomb British targets in the Yemeni port of Aden.

He was alleged to have been sent to Yemen by al-Masri.

Eight Britons were originally convicted of involvement, including Kamel, three of whom were released early while the other four remain in jail.

Kamel's solicitor added: "Four other British citizens remain in prison in Yemen.

"We are calling on Tony Blair to speak personally to the President of Yemen, in accordance with the British Government's revised policy on pleas for early release to obtain their immediate release.

"We have asked for an urgent meeting with (Foreign Secretary) Jack Straw to discuss this matter as soon as possible." A spokesman for the Foreign Office said Kamel was given consular assistance by the consulate general in Aden before his flight back to the UK.

Kamel had been taken under heavy security from Mansoura prison to Aden airport for a flight to San'a, the Yemeni capital, where he boarded a plane for London via Egypt.

Al-Masri is wanted in the Yemen for alleged sabotage attacks

Al-Masri, who refers to Britain as "the land of the enemies of Islam," denied on British television this week that members of his congregation had been recruited to al-Qaeda, the terror network blamed for being behind the September 11 attacks.

A member of al-Masri's congregation told a British newspaper this month that he saw Richard C. Reid, the alleged "shoe bomber," at the mosque in 1998 with Djamel Beghal and Nizar Trabelsi.

Reid is accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines flight on December 22 by attempting to detonate explosives in his shoe.

Beghal and Trabelsi have been detained in France and Belgium respectively in connection with a plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris.