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Trial for Radical Cleric Opens [Tuesday in London]
Newsday ^ | 7-5-05
Posted on 07/07/2005 11:08:20 AM PDT by SJackson
LONDON -- Neatly shorn and bespectacled, Britain's best-known Islamic radical appeared in court Tuesday, charged with encouraging the murder of Jews and other non-Muslims.
The fiery cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri sat uncharacteristically silent in the dock at the Old Bailey as lawyers outlined legal arguments ahead of his jury trial.
Tuesday had been set for the trial's beginning, but the first session was taken up with legal arguments, which are expected to continue all week. Court orders forbid any reporting of the arguments, which take place without a jury present.
Wearing a blue smock with hair gray hair and beard trimmed, al-Masri was surrounded by four guards in the dock of the wood-panelled courtroom.
He faces trial on 15 counts, including nine of soliciting the murder of others, "namely a person or persons who did not believe in the Islamic faith." Three of the charges add: "in particular Jewish people."
He also faces four counts of using threatening or abusive language designed to stir racial hatred, one count of possessing threatening or abusive recordings and one count of possessing a document likely to be useful in terrorism -- the "Encyclopedia of the Afghani Jihad."
Al-Masri pleaded innocent to all charges at a hearing in January.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/07/007002print.html
July 07, 2005
RevivingIslam.com reacts to the London murders
On the top-secret Muslims-only forums at RevivingIslam.com, where they wish Allah would give them the chance to kill me, they are, like the "moderate" Muslim leaders of Britain, more concerned about possible reprisals against Muslims than with the victims of these attacks, or with finding the jihadists within their ranks and bringing them to justice:
"bombs going off in london, people of huq remain steadfast, there are going to be arrests but only to scare the muslims, May Allah swt keep us firm, because many 'muslims' will change their understanding and turn into passive murji's"
"Lets watch the government take advantage of the situations, Muslims are going to be arrested left right and centre. They are already blaming Al Qaeda"
Posted at July 7, 2005 12:05 PM
indeed, I believe it is his group that did this. it simply goes to show you that you cannot use a western style criminal justice system to go after people like this. we are at war with these people - whether we find them on the battlefield in afghanistan or in the sunni triangle, or at at airport in chicago, or in london - they are enemy combatants, not criminals.