“He claimed that they rejected his warnings because they feared it would trigger a race crisis.” Of course, Islam is not a race, but the papers still can’t get their minds around that fact. Blunkett meant a crisis among Muslims in Britain. Rather than trigger such a crisis, MI5 and the CPS let a bloodthirsty, murderous thug spread hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity to overthrow the British state and replace it with a Sharia state — for seven years. How many people did Abu Hamza successfully indoctrinate? Where are they all now? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?
From the Telegraph, with thanks to JE:
AMERICA will use phone tap evidence gathered by Britain seven years ago to try to jail Abu Hamza al-Masri for life on terrorist offences.
Bugged conversations between the radical imam and the leader of a gang that kidnapped 16 Western tourists in Yemen are banned in the British courts. Yet the same wiretap material, amassed by British Intelligence, will be central to the case against Abu Hamza if he is extradited to America, The Times has been told.
Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service faced mounting criticism yesterday for delaying action against Abu Hamza, who was jailed for seven years on Tuesday for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.
Last night David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, suggested that the police, MI5 and the CPS could have acted earlier to seize the cleric. He claimed that they rejected his warnings because they feared it would trigger a race crisis.