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An Alaska woman knows firsthand some of the key events in the indictments yesterday of Abu Hamza al-Masri. Mary Quin, 50, was one of 16 tourists taken hostage in Yemen by terrorists federal agents say were aided by the London cleric. Quin, an Anchorage businesswoman, was riding in a caravan in the Yemeni desert, heading to Aden, when the group was ambushed by gunmen on Dec. 28, 1998. They forced one of the five four-wheel-drive vehicles off the road, and men with AK-47s jumped out of the brush. For the next day, she and the other hostages were moved several...

Phone tap ban prevented Hamza trial in Britain By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 29/05/2004) Home Office dithering over a decision on whether to permit the use of phone tap evidence in court emerged yesterday as a key reason why Abu Hamza could not be tried in Britain. Although the Government has said for years that it was "reviewing" the prohibition on intercept evidence and was "minded" to lift the ban, it has yet to produce firm proposals. Hamza is in Belmarsh jail David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, conceded yesterday that evidence in American hands allegedly linking the extremist...

Early yesterday morning, I was woken to the sound of vehicles and voices outside. At 4am our street in Shepherd's Bush, west London, is normally as quiet as a country churchyard, save for blackbirds, amorous tomcats and the occasional bark of an urban fox. Bleary-eyed, I peeped through the curtain. In the lamplight, I saw three policemen outside our house. The street was cordoned off. Half-asleep as I was, my old reporter's instincts were aroused. We aren't used to dawn raids in my street, and I hope we never shall be. So, in pyjamas, slippers and dressing gown, I went...

(CNSNews.com) - Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Muslim cleric arrested in Britain Thursday and facing extradition to the United States, is closely linked to the Yemeni terrorist group that claimed responsibility for bombing the USS Cole. Seventeen sailors were killed when the U.S. Navy destroyer was bombed during a refueling stop in Aden, a deep-water port on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, on Oct. 12, 2000. Several days after the attack, al-Masri claimed responsibility on behalf of the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, a group with whom he was closely associated. In an interview with CNSNews.com in London, the Egyptian-born...

Captain Claw, aka Abu Hamza, the one-eyed, steel hook-handed Islamofacist, previously the headliner at the London’s notorious Finsbury Park mosque, was arrested by police at dawn on Thursday.  Anti-terrorist police, who were acting on an extradition warrant issued by the US government, are searching his apartment under the Extradition Act 2003 as I write these words for Front Page Magazine.  According to London’s The Telegraph, the street is cordoned off and items have been seized, including videos, documents and a briefcase. It is thought the US authorities plan to charge the Egyptian-born radical cleric, who has spoken out in defense of...

May 28, 2004 -- Yesterday's arrest of Britain's most no torious Muslim cleric, Abu Hamza al-Masri, on U.S. terrorism charges — coming on the heels of the Justice Department's latest terrorist advisory — is a sobering reminder that the War on Terror is not limited to the Middle East. Al-Masri (whose real name is Mustafa Kamel Mustafa) was charged in an 11-count indictment in Manhattan federal court with providing aid to al Qaeda — including trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon before 9/11. The indictment was handed up last month; it was only unsealed after British police...

May 28, 2004 -- The land-mine explosion that cost radical Muslim imam Abu Hamza al-Masri the use of one eye and his two hands left his mind as twisted as his body. It turned the Egyptian-born al-Masri into a man who foments hate — a cleric who is regularly derided in British tabloid headlines as "The Hook." Al-Masri was named Mustaf Kamel Mustafa by his middle-class parents when he was born in Alexandria, Egypt, 47 years ago. In his mid-20s, he headed for England to become a civil engineer. He worked for a while as a bouncer at a London...

May 28, 2004 -- An NYPD cop has accomplished what federal investigators and Britain's top terror-busters have failed to do for years — crack the case against a fanatical cleric implicated in a deadly Yemeni hostage-taking and a scheme to open a jihad school in Oregon. It took veteran Detective George Corey — and his precision grilling of an unidentified jihadi already in custody — to build enough evidence for British authorities to arrest London radical and accused al Qaeda recruiter Abu Hamza al-Masri, considered a top prize among terror suspects. Al-Masri — a one-eyed, hook-handed radical who has praised...

<p>A radical Muslim cleric was arrested yesterday in London on charges of seeking to set up an al Qaeda terrorist training camp in southwestern Oregon and on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping of 16 Western tourists in Yemen, four of whom were killed.</p>

<p>May 27 (Bloomberg) -- Police in the U.K. arrested Abu Hamza al-Masri, a Muslim cleric, who has had his U.K. citizenship removed, Sky News reported.</p> <p>A police statement said a 47-year-old man was arrested during a raid at his home at about 3 a.m. London time. The arrest came after a request from the U.S. government for Abu Hamza's extradition, Sky said, citing the police statement. The man is being held in custody and will appear in a London court today, the Sky report said.</p>

HOOK-HANDED Abu Hamza is STILL in Britain — exactly a year after The Sun called for him to be booted out. British taxpayers are having to foot a monster bill for over £1MILLION to get rid of the Muslim fanatic. The cost of allowing the hook-handed cleric to remain here is soaring week after week — prompting angry MPs to demand WHY it is taking so long to boot him out. It is exactly 12 months since The Sun called for Hamza, 46, to be deported but he is still spongeing off the UK — while ranting against it at...