A Jamaican-born radical Muslim cleric who once led a London mosque attended by convicted terrorists is stuck in Kenya despite attempts to deport him because other nations are refusing to allow him to transit through their countries, officials said Tuesday.

Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal is being expelled from Kenya because of his history of being involved in terrorist activities, Kenya's immigration minister said. Britain has said that el-Faisal's teachings heavily influenced one of the bombers who carried out the 2005 transport network bombings in London that killed 52 people.

El-Faisal _ who has called for Americans, Hindus and Jews to be killed _ traveled from Nigeria and through Angola, Malawi, Swaziland, Mozambique, and Tanzania by road before coming to Kenya, said a Kenyan official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the issue.

The official said it is likely el-Faisal was trying to avoid detection because he is on a watch list of terror suspects.

South Africa and the U.K. have declined to grant him transit visas, the official said. The visas would allow el-Faisal to connect to flights to Jamaica, which has said it would accept him but would keep a close eye on him. Tanzania also declined to grant him a visa _ despite the fact he entered Kenya from Tanzania.

El-Faisal served four years in Britain for inciting murder and stirring racial hatred by urging followers to kill Americans, Hindus and Jews.

Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian man now charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day referred to el-Faisal as a cleric he had listened to.

The posting was made in March 2005 under the name "farouk1986." The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was born that year. Officials haven't verified that the postings were written by Abdulmutallab, but details from the posts match his personal history.

El-Faisal preached at London's Brixton mosque in the 1990s before being ejected by mosque authorities because of his support for violent jihad. The mosque was attended at different times by Richard Reid, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison after a failed 2001 attempt to blow up an airplane, and convicted Sept. 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui.

He later toured widely in Britain preaching and selling audio tapes of his sermons. The British government has said he was a key influence on July 7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay.