‘I was forced to become terrorist bomb maker’

An alleged al-Qaeda bomb-maker accused of planning to stab an MP in Westminster claims he was kidnapped while travelling in Pakistan and forced to work in an explosives factory. Khalid Ali, 28, was arrested by armed police with three knives just yards from Downing Street last April. Prosecutors claim he was hoping to launch another high-profile terrorist attack just weeks after Khalid Masood mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and stabbed PC Keith Palmer to death at Parliament. Ali later…