Posted on 05/26/2004 10:29:56 PM PDT by HAL9000
Fiery Islamic preacher Abu Hamza reportedly arrested in London
Radical Muslim Cleric Held on U.S. Extradition Warrant
By Kim Pilling, PA News
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has been arrested on an extradition warrant issued by the US government, it emerged today.
The 47-year-old was arrested at his home address in West London in a raid by Metropolitan Police officers.
Scotland Yard confirmed that “a British citizen, aged 47,” was arrested at approximately 3am today.
The man was detained by officers from the Extradition and International Assistance Unit under an extradition warrant obtained at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court.
He was taken to a central London police station and will appear at Bow Street Magistrates Court later today.
Home Secretary David Blunkett believes Hamza, who used to preach at Finsbury Park mosque in north London, should be stripped of his British citizenship and sent back to Yemen.
But the year-long legal battle to decide his future has been fraught with delays.
The Special Immigrations Appeals Commission said that a three-week appeal against the decision to deport him will begin on January 10, next year.
You must have the "Boys of Jihad" bubble gum card set.
Nah, they took those off the market. Evidently they realized that the little bubble gum stick in the back was way too sharp to trust Jihadi fans with.:)
*I* just tend to remember one-eyed, one-armed, hateful foriegners! Kind of distinctive look no?
Perhaps we found his name in Saddam's files.
hubba hubba..........................gag
We're past the tipping point now and the dominoes are falling.Mustard gas shell found three weeks ago. Sarin gas shell found last week. Fallujah is pacified (by local, friendly Iraqi forces no less!), Karbala is ours, Sadr on the run in Najaf, our casualties are down, their casualties are up, and arrests are being made.
Life is good.
o/~ If you're a terrorist and you know it, clank your claws! *clank!* *clank!* o/~
--author unknown
Sounds like a quagmire to me. :^)
ok South...I am with you...so how long before Bush's numbers respond...
Laugh of the night
I am laughing so hard I can't breathe!!!
Home Secretary David Blunkett believes Hamza, who used to preach at Finsbury Park mosque in north London, should be stripped of his British citizenship and sent back to Yemen.But the year-long legal battle to decide his future has been fraught with delays.
The Special Immigrations Appeals Commission said that a three-week appeal against the decision to deport him will begin on January 10, next year.
If he was just apprehended, what year-long battle to decide his future? Have they already been trying to decide what to do with him even before they caught him?
Deport him to where ... the U.S. or Yemen?
Next year???
What am I missing? Someone please connect the dots for me.
bttt
Do their girl friends always walk around looking through the leg holes of panties on their heads?
Reminds me of that old joke:
A new young sailor meets a weathered old pirate in a Jamaican bar. The pirate had obviously had a rough life--he had an eye patch, a metal hook at the end of one arm, and one wooden leg.
The sailor asks him, "How did you lose your leg?"
The pirate answers, "Well, matey, a shark took that when I fell overboard off the coast of Borneo!"
The sailor points to the pirate's hook. "And how did you lose your hand?"
"Arrrgh, well, we was boardin' a Spanish galleon, and a Spaniard lopped it clean off in the fight."
"Wow," said the sailor, impressed. "Tell me, how did you lose your eye?"
"Arrrr, well, y'see, one day a seagull comes along, flies over me head, and he poops in me eye!"
The sailor is confused. "You lost your eye just because a seagull pooped in it? I don't understand."
"Aye, matey, well, 'twas me first day with the new hook."
Reporter: Say Abu how did you lose your hand.
Abu: Well in my home country theft is taken much more seriously than it is in these evil western countries. Losing a hand is a great impediment to theives. It is much harder to obtain a five finger discount with a hook.
Reporter: Well, that's interesting, Abu. Well then tell me, how is it that you lost your eye?
Abu: Well I was in an outdoor mosque one day and as I was rising up from prayer a pigeon pooped in my eye.
Reporter: Well that wouldn't cause you to lose your eye, would it?.
Abu: It would if you had a hook.
Another week or two before there is any meaningful movement back up.
You've got some good news about hiring/economy, some good news about Iraq, some terrorist arrests, some minor WMD finds, and Senator Kerry is caught flip-flopping on not accepting the Dem nomination...but all of this is going through the mainstream media filter, and it takes some time for the Public to work through that spin.
Now, something big, something that can't be spun...well, that would move our numbers up faster. So a capture of a terror bigwig, a discovery of a large cache of chemical or biological WMDs...that sort of thing...well, that would boost us much faster.
So outside of something big happening, it just takes patience.
Darn. You beat me by one post.
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