An update on this story. "British court OKs extradition of London imam," by Arthur Bright for the Christian Science Monitor:
A British court ruled Thursday that London Imam Abu Hamza al-Masri, Britain's highest profile Muslim radical, could be extradited to the US to face charges of conspiracy, kidnapping, and providing material support to terrorists. Although Britain is likely to comply, the US bid to extradite Mr. al-Masri still faces several challenges, namely concerns about his potential prison conditions in the US and whether such a move might violate his human rights.
Al-Masri, the firebrand Muslim cleric convicted last year in Britain of soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, faces extradition to the US on 11 terrorism-related charges. That process, however, could take time, reports the British Broadcast Corporation.
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The New York Sun writes that the British home secretary's assent to extradition is thought to be a formality. Upon her approval, al-Masri can be sent to America to face charges filed against him in New York in 2004.
Mr. Hamza (al-Masri) is charged with sending an associate to collect funds from sympathetic Muslims in New York that were used to send two co-conspirators to Afghanistan to recruit a "front line commander" to direct acts of violent jihad in the West. ... The terrorism charges against Mr. Hamza relate to a period in late 1999 and early 2000 in Bly, Ore., when he is accused of trying to set up camps to train youths to commit violent acts of jihad and terrorism. In April 2004 the cleric was the subject of an 11-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York. According to [then US Attorney General John] Ashcroft, between December 23 and 29, 1998, Mr. Hamza plotted to take Westerners hostage in Yemen and provided a satellite telephone to members of the Islamic Army of Aden, who carried out the kidnapping.
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CNN adds that al-Masri's followers include Richard Reid, who was convicted of trying to light a bomb in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight, and Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be charged in the US in connection with the September 11 attacks. The Guardian notes that for all his condemnations of the US and the West, al-Masri's "brazenness also helped - with his knowledge or otherwise - the [British] intelligence services."
Following his conviction last year, it emerged he had repeatedly met MI5 and Special Branch officers. A former MI5 agent who infiltrated the Finsbury Park mosque said Hamza was allowed to operate by the security services as long as he did not threaten Britain's national security. Both the agent and a close associate of Hamza claimed the cleric was an unwitting informant on other extremists.
The Guardian adds that al-Masri claims he is not a man of violence, but rather he is solely a political advocate.
Oh yes, we mustn't VIOLATE HIS HUMAN RIGHTS,must we. How Al Quaeda would have laughed when they instructed Jihadists to use HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION to stop Mo's Bros
from facing well earned punishment or death penalty...
Mr Abu, we have deluxe accomadations here at Club Gitmo waiting for you
"... al-Masri claims he is not a man of violence ..."
Of course not, the Religion of Peace forbids violence. If you don't believe this, I'll blow in your teeth, slit your throat and crush your scull!!!
Please take good care of him. He wants a toilet facing mecca and needs a nurse to wipe his bum as he can't do it with his hook hand.
Celsius,
It is really hard to burden our allies with Hamza. He may be in prison for 30 years or more , and all those hygeinic necessities may pall even the hardest soul. My advice, send him to Egypt or Yemen. Both these countries want him, and as they are Muslim countries, they can look after his religious needs far better then we can. It is by far the best option for him, as well as us.
My country is pathetic.
Yes, that's right, my country is pathetic. I live here and even I think that. Our "governement" want to see people dying on the streets, it allows them to impose ever harsher laws on the law abiding citizens. Welcome to the new communist state. Let's not forget that our government were commmunist supporters when they were in university. These people are only interested in their own agenda, they have no care for the general population.
BUT, the people of Britain WILL revolt. We may say "sorry" a lot, but what muslims don't realise is that when we say it, it is a term of politeness. When you push us, we will push pack. We are gettng to a point where the 58,000,000 have had enough.
Be afraid, be VERY AFRAID. We are tolerant to a point. London is NOT representative of the country as a whole.
I have no wish to see a race/religious war in my country, but if it comes you'll lose.
The Jihaad is real.
The trillionair sheiks pay the mullas to run the brainwashing Madrassahs to teach as many lower class and poorer middle class moslem males that to die for allah is the greatest accomplishment. They are trained from as young an age as possible...and sent out to suicide bomb for allah all over the world ...and to fight the jihaad which the trillionaire sheiks want to eliminate as many young moslem males as possible ...in order to create the greatest number of single moslem women to fill their huge harems and the huge harems of their many sons and grandsons.....a gigantic number.
The sheiks send out harem recruiters to scout for the most and best moslem females for their vast harems. These recruiters are paid well if they succeed. Also sometimes the women are drugged and brainwashed to believe they should be in harems.
That is the root cause of the jihaad.
The question is...how do we shut down all the hate-kill brainwashing Madrassahs?
Perhaps only a one world government would have such power to do that...eh?
New world order?
But one with a good and careing true democracy government which benefits everyone.
Can humanity accomplish that?
I like to think so.
Or else...maybe if this message goes all around this planet..somehow it could get real loud to the extent that it might possibly reach the ears and eyes of the unfortunate madrassah boys...maybe opening their eyes to what how and why they are being destroyed...so that the wealthy sheiks can put their potential brides into their huge harems.
Then perhaps they will opt out of jihaadism...just perhaps.
Where are the Victims Human Rights ......
shouldn't They come before anything else
The UK is a lost cause......
Yes, sentences in UK are far far too light.
If Abu Hanza receives 15 life sentences without payroll, 900 years, cant come too soon...
ON MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN
“It looks unfortunately that we have been forced to be inside a toilet . . . and some of us think they can be leaders in that toilet unfortunately. We are all under the feet and the heavy boots of the kuffar”
ON FIGHTING
“The first phase is called the Shawkat al-Nekaya, it is called the needle of bleeding the enemy. Like you imagine you have one small knife and you have a big animal in front of you . . . You have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death . . . This is the first stage of jihad, destruction of the enemies of Allah”
ON LEGITIMATE TARGETS
“Every court is a target and every brothel is a target and everybody who’s endorsing that is a target”
ON CHRISTIANITY
“The Church itself have lost every capacity it has. In the hearts and minds of people preachers have become homosexual, they have become child hazard. Churches have become places of dancing, iniquity, business, black magic, you name it. Child prostitution and everyday there is evidence of that”
ON MULTICULTURALISM
“The Hindus don’t worship God, they worship the cow, and as far as Christians (are concerned) they don’t worship God they worship Jesus, and Jews they worship their desires and Muslims, they worship Allah. So your God is different from their God”
ON WEAPONS
“We ask Muslims to . . . bleed the enemies of Allah anywhere by any means. You can’t do it by nuclear weapon, you have to do it by kitchen knife, no other solution. You can’t do it by chemical weapons, you have to do it by mice poison”
From the Times Online. This is what he's on record as saying... Why we allow folks to lie over and over with space in newsprint and time on broadcast media despite the indisputable evidence confounds me.
He had plenty of time on the stage and his statements are well known. Now is the time to cut him off and put him away. Lather, rinse, repeat. Incarcerate imams.