Michael Adebolajo: ‘I Killed Lee Rigby Because I am A Soldier… Of Allah’!
A self-proclaimed ‘soldier of Islam’ claimed he stabbed Drummer Lee Rigby to death after begging Allah to let him kill a soldier.
Michael Adebolajo, who also said he loved al-Qaeda, described to a court how he planned the attack on the fusilier as a military operation.
The 28-year-old claimed he was prepared to be shot dead by armed police to become a martyr and enter paradise.
Adebolajo also insisted he had never met any al-Qaeda members but added: ‘I love them. They’re my brothers.’
Father-of-six Adebolajo, who is on trial for murder alongside Michael Adebowale, 22, was giving evidence for the defence at the Old Bailey.
He said the night before the attack he ‘prayed to Allah’ that their victim should be military rather than civilian.
But he insisted he was the one who killed 25-year-old Drummer Rigby, who was dead by the time Adebowale joined in the attack outside Woolwich barracks on May 22.
Challenged that Dmr Rigby posed no threat, the defendant replied: ‘He was a soldier and I am a soldier.’
He said some people might not recognize them as soldiers because they did not wear fatigues or train in the Brecon Beacons but he added: ‘We are still soldiers in the sight of Allah as a mujahid.’
Adebolajo, from Romford, east London, and Adebowale, from Greenwich, south-east London, deny murder. The trial continues.
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