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An alleged member of a British terror cell accused of planning to bomb a London nightclub has said he was "happy" over the September 11 attacks.

Omar Khyam, 24, is accused of being a part of a UK-based al-Qaeda linked group which discussed bombing The Ministry of Sound nightclub in London and Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. He was arrested in 2004 after fertiliser explosive was found in a storage depot in west London.

At his trial at the Old Bailey, Khyam said of the September 11 attacks: "America was, and still is, the greatest enemy of Islam. They put up puppet regimes in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt.

"I was happy that America had been hit because of what it represented against the Muslims, but obviously 3,000 people died so there were mixed feelings."

"I think we would be working better in our own countries, trying to establish an Islamic state," he said.

They ought to ship him out to the US for trial, and see how happy he would be then