Document - Judgments - Link:
(October 5, 2012)
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/abu-hamza-summary-05102012.pdf
SNIPPET: “8. Abu Hamza’s extradition was requested by the United States on 21 May 2004, now over eight years ago. The case against him is that he conspired to take hostages in the Yemen, set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and to give other support to terrorists. He was arrested in London on 5 August 2004. Abu Hamza served seven years imprisonment after being convicted of offences in the United Kingdom. Thereafter extradition proceedings were resumed with the Senior District Judge ruling on 15 November 2007 that his extradition could take place. The Secretary of State ordered his extradition on 7 February 2008. The High Court rejected Abu Hamza’s appeal on 20 June 2008, and also refused leave to appeal to the House of Lords on 23 July 2008.”
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19855380
6 October 2012 Last updated at 04:16 ET
“Abu Hamza due in US court following extradition”
SNIPPET: “Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza is due to appear in court in New York to face terrorism charges.
He is one of five men who left the UK on two flights, hours after the High Court rejected their final appeals.
It has been confirmed Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan have landed in the US. They will appear before a judge in Connecticut in connection with the alleged running of a pro-jihad website.
The home secretary said the extradition process had been too “lengthy”.
On Friday, UK judges ruled the five men - Abu Hamza, Mr Ahmad, Mr Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled al-Fawwaz - did not show “new and compelling” reasons to stay in the UK.”
Previously...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249839/posts
Man Convicted in New York of Trying to Start Al Qaeda Training Camp in Oregon
(AP) FOX NEWS.com ^ | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | n/a
Posted on May 13, 2009 1:10:53 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “NEW YORK — A jury convicted a Lebanese-born Swede on Tuesday of plotting to help Al Qaeda recruit by trying to set up a weapons-training post in Oregon and distributing terrorist training manuals over the Internet.
The verdict against Oussama Kassir...”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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Swedish man set up al-Qaeda camp, US prosecutor says
(REUTERS) via YNET NEWS.com ^ | Published: 04.22.09, 07:09 / Israel News | n/a
Posted on April 21, 2009 10:55:10 PM PDT by Cindy
Oussama Abdullah Kassir, 43, who was extradited from the Czech Republic on terrorism charges in 2007, faces multiple charges including supporting al-Qaeda by attempting to set up the camp in rural Oregon from 1999 to early 2000 and later setting up websites on explosives and poisons.
(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...
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“Swedish terror suspect extradited from Czech Republic to the United States”
AP ^ | Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Posted on September 25, 2007 12:28:10 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1448780/posts
“U.S. Man Questioned About London Suspect [Ujaama, Seattle]”
ABC News.com ^ | July 22, 2005 | By MARK SHERMAN, The Associated Press
Posted on July 22, 2005 7:18:46 PM PDT by aculeus
SNIPPET: “Authorities Questioning Seattle Man About Individual Sought in Connection With London Bombings
An American once accused of trying to set up a terror training camp in Oregon is being questioned about a man sought in the London bombings, U.S. officials said Friday.
James Ujaama, a Muslim convert from Seattle, was charged in 2002 with trying to set up a terrorist training camp for Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges in exchange for cooperating with terrorism investigations until 2013.
Three federal law enforcement officials said Ujaama is being questioned about Haroon Rashid Aswat, who also was implicated in the 1999 plan to establish a training camp in Bly, Ore. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
British authorities are looking into whether Aswat had been in close contact with the suicide bombers just before the July 7 attacks. They have asked Pakistan to search for Aswat.”
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“Bin Laden’s own doctor once treated Ujaama”
Seattle Times ^ | Feb 12, 2004 | Mike Carter
Posted on February 13, 2004 8:57:58 PM PST by JohnathanRGalt
“Bin Laden’s own doctor once treated Ujaama”
By Mike Carter, Feb 12, 2004
Seattle Times staff reporter
SNIPPET: “During one of James Ujaama’s trips to aid the Taliban government in Afghanistan in late 2000, the former Seattle native fell ill and was treated by Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the most-wanted terrorists in the world and Osama bin Laden’s adviser, confidant and personal physician.
“It gives you an idea of the circles in which Ujaama found himself,” noted one federal law-enforcement source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It would be like you or me getting a bellyache and having the U.S. surgeon general show up at the door.””
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www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2012/three-alleged-international-terrorists-extradited-from-great-britain
Three Alleged International Terrorists Extradited from Great Britain
“Abu Hamza” to Face Terrorism Charges for 1998 Kidnapping in Yemen, Supporting the Establishment of a Terrorist Training Camp in the United States, and Facilitating Violent Jihad in Afghanistan
U.S. Attorney’s Office
October 06, 2012
Southern District of New York
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Mary Galligan, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (NYPD), today announced the extradition of three defendants charged with terrorism offenses in two separate cases. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a/k/a “Abu Hamza,” a/k/a “Abu Hamza al Masri,” (“Abu Hamza”), 54, a naturalized citizen of the United Kingdom, is charged in connection with a hostage-taking in Yemen in 1998 that resulted in four deaths; a conspiracy to establish a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon, in 1999; and supporting violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001.
Separately, Adel Abdel Bary, 52, a citizen of Egypt, and Khaled al Fawwaz, 50, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, are charged with conspiring with members of al Qaeda to kill United States nationals and to attack U.S. interests abroad. Bary is also charged with murder, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, and other offenses in connection with the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which caused the deaths of 224 individuals and injured thousands more.
Abu Hamza, Fawwaz, and Bary were extradited from the U.K. and arrived in the Southern District of New York last night. Abu Hamza will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas. He will be arraigned Tuesday morning, October 9, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest, at which time Judge Forrest will also hold an initial pre-trial conference. Fawwaz and Bary will be presented and arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas. Their case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, and an initial pre-trial conference before Judge Kaplan is scheduled for Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said, “As is charged, these are men who were at the nerve centers of al Qaeda’s acts of terror, and they caused blood to be shed, lives to be lost, and families to be shattered. After years of protracted legal battles, the extradition of these three alleged terrorists to the U.S. is a watershed moment in our nation’s efforts to eradicate terrorism, and it makes good on a promise to the American people to use every available diplomatic, legal, and administrative tool to pursue and prosecute charged terrorists no matter how long it takes. Now, Abu Hamza, Adel Abdel Bary, and Khaled al Fawwaz will finally face justice.”
FBI Acting Assistant Director in Charge Mary Galligan said, “The extraditions of Abu Hamza, Bary, and Fawwaz are a major milestone in our effort to see these alleged high-level terrorists face American justice. The indictments allege the direct participation of these defendants in planning and carrying out some of the most odious acts of al Qaeda terrorism. When an indictment alleges the murderous intent of international terrorists, the government will not waver in its determination to achieve justice, no matter how long it takes.”
NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said, “The individuals accused of terrorism-related charges in this case were brought to justice as a result of great work by NYPD officers and FBI agents assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, in partnership with the outstanding team of prosecutors assembled by U.S. Attorney Bharara.”
Charges Against Abu Hamza
As alleged in the indictment against Abu Hamza:
December 1998 Hostage-Taking in Yemen
On December 28, 1998, in Yemen, hostage-takers stormed a caravan of sport utility vehicles carrying 16 tourists, including two United States citizens, and took the tourists hostage by force. Prior to the hostage-taking, Abu Hamza provided a co-conspirator in the hostage-taking (“CC-1”) with a satellite telephone. Abu Hamza subsequently spoke with CC-1 on that satellite telephone, agreed to act as an intermediary on behalf of the hostage-takers, and advised CC-1 with respect to the hostage-taking. On December 29, 1998, the Yemeni military launched a rescue operation. The hostage-takers fought the Yemeni military, using the hostages as human shields. During the rescue operation, four of the hostages were killed and several others were wounded.
Efforts to Create a Terrorist Training Camp in Bly, Oregon
In late 1999, Abu Hamza and several co-conspirators, including Oussama Abdullah Kassir, Haroon Rashid Aswat, and others, attempted to create a terrorist training camp to support al Qaeda on property located in Bly, Oregon. The primary purpose of the Bly, Oregon, camp was to provide various types of terrorist training, including weapons training. In late November 1999, at Abu Hamza’s direction, Kassir, and Aswat traveled from London, England, to Bly to assist in setting up the camp.
On May 12, 2009, after a four-week jury trial in this District, Kassir was convicted of various criminal offenses, including conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and to al Qaeda and conspiracy to kill persons overseas, as a result of Kassir’s participation in the efforts to establish the Bly terrorist training camp. On September 15, 2009, United States District Judge John F. Keenan sentenced Kassir to multiple terms of life in prison. The conviction was subsequently affirmed by the Court of Appeals.
Aswat was arrested in Zambia in July 2005 and then deported to England, where he was arrested at the request of the United States, pursuant to a warrant issued in this district. The extradition proceedings against Aswat are currently pending in the European Court of Human Rights.
Facilitating Violent Jihad in Afghanistan
In November 2000, Abu Hamza requested that a co-conspirator (“CC-2”) escort another co-conspirator in London (“CC-3”) to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Abu Hamza introduced CC-2 to another co-conspirator (“CC-4”) in order to facilitate safe passage and transportation to Afghanistan, including via safehouses and other lodging in Pakistan. Thereafter, CC-2 and CC-3 traveled from London to Pakistan. CC-2 and CC-3 then separately entered Afghanistan. In March or April 2001, Abu Hamza conveyed instructions for CC-3 to contact a commander of the terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, who was expecting CC-3. Additionally, from the spring of 2000 through late 2001, Abu Hamza provided goods and services to the Taliban by, among other things, urging his followers to donate money, goods, and services to Taliban-sponsored programs in Afghanistan.
The indictment charges Abu Hamza with 11 offenses that carry the following potential penalties:
Count
Charge
Statutory Violation
Maximum Prison Term
One
Conspiracy to take hostages
18 U.S.C. § 1203
Life
Two
Hostage-taking
18 U.S.C. §§ 1203, 2
Life
Three
Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists
18 U.S.C. § 371
Five years
Four
Providing material support to terrorists
18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A, 2
10 years
Five
Conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization (al Qaeda)
18 U.S.C. §2339B
10 years
Six
Providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization (al Qaeda)
18 U.S.C. §§ 2339B, 2
10 years
Seven
Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists
18 U.S.C. § 2339A
15 years
Eight
Providing material support to terrorists
18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A, 2
15 years
Nine
Conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization (al Qaeda)
18 U.S.C. § 2339B
15 years
Ten
Providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization (al Qaeda)
18 U.S.C. §§ 2339B, 2
15 years
Eleven
Conspiracy to provide goods and services to the Taliban
18 U.S.C. § 371
Five years
Charges Against Fawwaz and Bary
As alleged in the indictment against Fawwaz and Bary:
In 1994, Fawwaz established a media information office in London, England, to publicize the statements of Usama bin Laden and to provide a cover for activity in support of al Qaeda’s “military” activities, including the recruitment of military trainees, the disbursement of funds, and the procurement of necessary equipment and services. The London office served as a conduit for messages, including reports relating to military and security matters from various al Qaeda cells, to al Qaeda’s headquarters. In August or September 1996, Fawwaz forwarded a copy of Bin Laden’s “Declaration of Jihad Against Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques; Expel the Heretics from the Arabian Peninsula” to another person in England for further dissemination to the media for publication. Thereafter, Fawwaz vouched for the Declaration’s authenticity. From 1995 through September 1998, Fawwaz provided bin Laden and other al Qaeda members with various means of communications including a satellite phone in order to facilitate communications among al Qaeda members and associates.
In September 1997, Fawwaz leased an office located in London, England (the “Beethoven Office”). That lease was signed by both Fawwaz and Bary. Thereafter, in February 1998, Bary continued the lease of the Beethoven Office until at least September 1998. Bary led the London cell of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization and provided logistical assistance to the organization, including in connection with obtaining fake travel documents and delivering messages. The Beethoven Office is where Bary received, among other things, a statement issued on August 4, 1998—three days prior to the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania—by Egyptian Islamic Jihad, threatening to retaliate against the United States. That statement was later found in the Beethoven Office.
By February 1998, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization, led by Ayman Al Zawahiri, had effectively merged with al Qaeda. In February 1998, bin Laden and Zawahiri endorsed a fatwah under the banner of the “International Islamic Front for Jihad on the Jews and Crusaders.” This fatwah stated that Muslims should kill Americans—including civilians—anywhere in the world where that they could be found.
In the hours immediately preceding the Embassy bombings on August 7, 1998, claims of responsibility for the bombings were sent to the Beethoven Office. After the bombings, those claims of responsibility were also sent to media organizations in France, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The claims stated that the Nairobi, Kenya bombing was carried out by a Saudi national and that the Dar es Salaam, Tanzania bombing was carried out by an Egyptian national.
On May 29, 2001, after a five-month jury trial in this District, Wadih El Hage, Mohammed Sadeek Odeh, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-‘Owhali, and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, co-conspirators of Fawwaz and Bary, were convicted of various offenses, including conspiring to kill U.S. nationals, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, murder and attempted murder, in connection with their roles in the al Qaeda conspiracies that culminated in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Based on those convictions, United States District Judge Leonard B. Sand sentenced all four defendants to life in prison. The convictions were affirmed by the Court of Appeals. On November 17, 2010, after a five-week jury trial in this District, co-conspirator Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was convicted of conspiring to destroy buildings and property of the United States. On January 25, 2011, United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced Ghailani to life in prison. Ghailani’s appeal of his conviction and sentence is pending.
The indictment charges Fawwaz with four offenses, which carry the following potential penalties:
Count
Charge
Statutory Violation
Maximum Prison Term
One
Conspiracy to kill United States nationals
18 U.S.C. § 2332(b)
Life
Three
Conspiracy to Mmurder
18 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1116, and 1117
Life
Five
Conspiracy to destroy buildings and property of the United States
18 U.S.C. §844(f)(1), (f)(3), and 844(n)
Life
Six
Conspiracy to attack national defense utilities
18 U.S.C. § 2155(a) and (b)
Life
The indictment charges Bary with 284 offenses, which carry the following potential penalties:
Count
Charge
Statutory Violation
Maximum Prison Term
One
Conspiracy to kill United States nationals
18 U.S.C. § 2332(b)
Life
Three
Conspiracy to murder
18 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1116, and 1117
Life
Four
Conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against nationals of the United States
18 U.S.C. §§ 2332a(a)(1) and (a)(3)
Life
Five
Conspiracy to destroy buildings and property of the United States
18 U.S.C. §844(f)(1), (f)(3), and 844(n)
Life
Six
Conspiracy to attack national defense utilities
18 U.S.C. § 2155(a) and (b)
Life
Seven
Bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, resulting in more than 200 deaths
18 U.S.C. §§ 844(f)(1), (f)(3), and 2
Life
Eight
Bombing of the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, resulting in at least 11 deaths
18 U.S.C. §§ 844(f)(1), (f)(3), and 2
Life
Nine
Use and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction against nationals of the United States in Nairobi, Kenya
18 U.S.C. §§ 2332a(a)(1) and (a)(3)
Life
Ten
Use and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction against nationals of the United States in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
18 U.S.C. §§ 2332a(a)(1) and (a)(3)
Life
11-223
Murders in Nairobi, Kenya
18 U.S.C. §§ 930(c), 1111, and 2
Life
224-234
Murders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
18 U.S.C. §§ 930(c), 1111, and 2
Life
235-275
Murders of employees of the United States in Nairobi, Kenya
18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1114, and 2
Life
276-278
Murder of employees of the United States in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1114, and 2
Life
279
Attempted murder of employees of the United States in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1114, and 2
Life
280-81
Murder of internationally protected persons in Nairobi, Kenya
18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1116, and 2
Life
282
Attempted murder of internationally protected persons in Nairobi, Kenya
18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1116, and 2
Life
283
Attempted murder of internationally protected persons in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 1116, and 2
Life
284
Using and carrying an explosive device during commission of a felony
18 U.S.C. §§ 844(h)(1), 844(h)(2), and 2
10 years
285
Using and carrying a dangerous device during the bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya
18 U.S.C. §§ 924(c) and 2
Five years
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The charges, arrests, and extraditions of these three defendants were the result of the close cooperative efforts of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the FBI, the NYPD, the United States Marshals Service, New Scotland Yard. Mr. Bharara also thanked the Home Office of the United Kingdom, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of International Affairs, the National Security Division, and the United States Department of State for their ongoing assistance.
These two cases are being handled by the Office’s Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys John P. Cronan and Edward Y. Kim are in charge of the prosecution of ABU Hamza, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean S. Buckley is in charge of the prosecution of Fawwaz and Bary.
The charges contained in the indictments are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.