Radical Muslim cleric Abdullah el-Faisal, who in 2007 served a prison term in a detention center in the United Kingdom, has arrived in Jamaica on a private flight that made stopovers in Burkina Faso, Cape Verde and Antigua, according to the Associated Press.

According to the AP, El-Faisal was deported from the UK in 2007 after serving a four-year prison term for having taken contracts out for the killing of US citizens, Hindus, Jews and Christians. Last year, he was traveling through various African countries but was arrested in Kenya.

On his return trip to his native Jamaica, El-Faisal had trouble securing transit visas for several countries, including Nigeria, which returned him to Kenya on one occasion. The governments of South Africa, the United Kingdom, Tanzania and the United States all refused him transit as well.

When living in London, El-Faisal was the leader of a mosque attended by a number of convicted terrorists. According to British authorities, El-Faisal’s sermons influenced the 2005 terrorist attacks on the London mass transit system that resulted in the deaths of 52 people.

Upon his arrival in Kingston, Jamaica on Friday, January 22, according to the Associated Press, El-Faisal spoke briefly with a group of journalists who were waiting at the airport. “’I’m traveling for two days and you want me to give you an interview?’ he was quoted as saying in Saturday’s edition of the Jamaica Observer newspaper. ‘It was a very good flight. It was a private jet. I am very happy to be back home.’"