Great Britain: Hamza £25k kitchen stink (British taxpayers to remodel terrorist's house)

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | August 26, 2005 | ANTHONY FRANCE

[Stoat]

IN TODAY'S SUN Hamza £25k kitchen stink Behind bars ... Abu Hamza   By ANTHONY FRANCE  HOOK-handed cleric Abu Hamza’s council house is getting a £25,000 makeover at taxpayers’ expense — while he is in jail awaiting trial on terror charges. A plush kitchen and bathroom have been installed — and the Muslim dad of eight’s five-bed home in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, has been redecorated.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,31-2005390613,00.html

Home truths

MANY people in this country have to work hard for long hours to keep a roof over their heads and clothes on their kids’ backs.

Not so Abu Hamza.

About £1,000 a week in benefits goes into his home every week to keep his wife and eight children.

Now £25,000 of taxpayers’ cash is being spent on his council home.

The five-bedroomed house in West London gets a new kitchen, a new bathroom, new heating and redecoration.

The news will anger families struggling to buy their own homes.

Even the workers installing the granite worktops and varnished cupboards are shocked at the expense.

Abu Hamza is in prison awaiting trial on terror charges including soliciting murder.

He also faces possible extradition to America.

When free, he was a man of considerable energy, regularly making lengthy sermons to anyone who would listen.

Despite his disabilities he could have got a proper job which would have eased the burden he placed on the taxpayer.

Let’s hope his wife Nagat explains to the children how generous and open-handed Britain is.

And how the path to REAL satisfaction in life is to pay your own way

 

[Stoat]

See also (from last year):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247714/posts

 

 

Abu Hamza ... will be charged

US fury over hook trial

By SIMON HUGHES

 

HOOK-handed cleric Abu Hamza is set to face terrorism charges in Britain next week — a move certain to infuriate the United States.

Washington wants him to face a terror trial over there after issuing an extradition warrant.

But a Whitehall source said yesterday: “Hamza will definitely be charged. It is just a question of what with.”

Crown Prosecution Service lawyers — who consulted and were sanctioned by the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith — have advised police to charge the ranting cleric with offences related to the support of terrorism.

Hamza, being held at Belmarsh Jail in South East London, was arrested on the US extradition warrant in May.

But British authorities — who are also thought to be looking at racial hatred claims against the cleric — are expected to charge him on Monday.

That would mean he must have a trial here FIRST before being handed over to the United States.

Hamza could be extradited before serving a sentence.

The cleric is wanted in America over a hostage-taking drama in Yemen in 1998 in which three Britons died.

He is also accused over the setting up of a terrorist training camp in Oregon and the recruitment of militia to fight Allied forces in Afghanistan.

The Home Office said: “The CPS has decided to prosecute him and it is a matter for the police to press charges.”

Westminster sources last night admitted the decision will have “deeply political ramifications”.

Hamza, 47 — who preached at the Finsbury Park mosque — could be jailed for 100 years if convicted in America.

 

[newgeezer]

About £1,000 a week in benefits goes into his home every week to keep his wife and eight children.

Now £25,000 of taxpayers’ cash is being spent on his council home.

Familiar-story ping!

[3AngelaD]

I would be interested in reading about the level of public assistance that the Islamic America-haters in this country are receiving. I know the Safeway in Bailey's Crossroads (northern VA) is always full of tent-wearing women with five or six kids who are buying their gallons of milk, ect., with WIC vouchers. I can only assume their little terrorists in the making are also receiving Medicaid and subsidized housing, but I would like to see some real numbers on how the American taxpayer is being forced by the American government to subsidize the presence of these hateful and destructive people on American soil.