Zak Ebrahim: My Father Was a Bomb-plotter
As America remembers the 9/11 attacks on New York, Zak Ebrahim tells the story of coming to terms with his father's extremist Islamist actions.
Zak's father, Egyptian-born El-Sayyid Nosair, had helped to plan an earlier attack on the World Trade Centre - the bombing in 1993 which killed six people and injured more than a thousand. He plotted the bombing from the cell where he was already serving a prison sentence for shooting dead the militant leader of the right-wing group the Jewish Defence League.
Nosair's actions had a devastating impact on his family. His eldest son, Zak spent many years struggling to come to terms with his father's violent legacy, and eventually turned his back on Nosair's fundamentalist ideology. He now campaigns against extremism.
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