Khalid Kelly

Khalid Kelly, born Terence Edward Kelly ( 1967 – 4 November 2016), also known as Abu Osama Al-Irlandi and Taliban Terry, was an Irish Muslim convert and at one time the leader of Al-Muhajiroun in Ireland.

Kelly was once a nurse. He was jailed in Saudi Arabia for making alcohol and transporting a large quantity of Johnnie Walker. Like Yvonne Ridley, he converted to Islam after being imprisoned in Saudi Arabia in 2000. He has one son.

Background Born Terence Edward Kelly in The Liberties, Dublin, he attended Roman Catholic schools there until age 15, when he left to work in pubs.

At 23, he moved to London to train as an intensive care nurse

Declared fugitive in 2008 In March 2008 it was reported that Khalid Kelly was on the run. After the Danish cartoon controversy and subsequent arrests for having signs which said Kill those who insult the Prophet, Kelly fled the country and began travelling the Muslim world looking for a place to bring his wife and two sons, Osama and the newborn Muhammed.

Living in Pakistan In a newspaper interview in 2009, Khalid was reportedly living in the Swat Valley in Pakistan and was quoted during the interview as ready to travel to Afghanistan to fight against coalition forces: "Next week, inshallah, I could be in Afghanistan fighting a British soldier."

He returned to Dublin in April 2010, claiming to have been deported from an Eastern European country and to have lost his passport. His house in Dublin's north inner city was searched by specialist police. He was later released without charges and put under surveillance.

Links to the Islamic State Kelly had been linked to and voiced support for the terrorist group, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and in June 2015 he was detained and questioned by detectives attached to the Garda Counter-Terrorism International Unit (CTI) from Garda Headquarters' Crime and Security Branch (CSB). He was later released without charge.