Posted on 02/07/2006 5:21:47 AM PST by Eurotwit
LONDON - A British jury convicted radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on Tuesday of fomenting racial hatred and inciting his followers to kill non-Muslims.
Al-Masri, 47, the former imam at London's Finsbury Park mosque, also was convicted of possessing a terrorist document and threatening or abusive recordings. Al-Masri, Britain's best-known Islamist orator, could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The jury of seven men and five women found al-Masri guilty on seven of nine charges of soliciting murder. He also was convicted on two of four charges of stirring racial hatred.
Though asked to stand for the reading of the verdict, the firebrand preacher immediately sat down once the first guilty verdict was pronounced by the jury's foreman.
Hey Aboo, swat that fly on your good eye.
Wondering...So how long is a British "life in prison" term anyways?
"Hey Aboo, swat that fly on your good eye."
hand him a sharp knife first
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Exactly my thoughts ... he'll have the opportunity to work the prison system for new recruits until '09.
2 years.
bttt
He was sentenced to seven years. Have already almost served 2 years. According to British legal practice, he can exptect to serve between half and two thirds of it.
Thus, he might very well walk out on the streets in two years.
Ok I don't know your work experience, but this must relate to your company at least once.
You have a change of vision a change of strategy it takes time to peculate down.
1) we needed to switch resources.
2) we need to recruit new assets, A deep cover asset in a Irish cultural environment would not assimilate into a Islamic/Asian one.
During the First Gulf War we had reams of Intelligence pouring in no problem in Intelligence gathering the problem was collating and analysing that intelligence.
Our Intelligence analysts were highly trained highly experienced in analysing intelligence from 1)The former Warsaw Pact.
2)From Irish nationalists and Loyalist circles.
3) Animal Rights extremists.
4) Trade Unions this was a hangover from the strikes of the 80s.
On the whole the Muslim community was not very active, and most Islamic groups were what we call leaderless groups no rigid form of command and control.
So Conclusion is.
1) we needed to develop assets.
2) We needed to train up experts in reading and understanding Intelligence gathered.
As for the Hate Preachers, he was seen as a bumbling Walter Mitty character who could not keep his mouth shut.
As a potential Terrorist organiser he would be a menace to himself and any group.
What was not seen was that there was a level of disaffection amongst Muslim youth which he could exploit. As a loner with a chip on his shouldere he was able to influence others like him, loners and outsiders even within the Muslim community.
They are the hardest to track down.
Good grief. Beyond ugly..a face of nightmares. Some people really do wear their souls on the outside.
UUUUUUUUUGGGGGGLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY!!!
1) This guy is proof that evolution is a farce.
2) We owe an apology to any TV Preacher ever dissed because of their geeky looks.
3) We need Petro Fuels Anonymous (PFA) for Gasoline junkies. Get off the petrols NOW!
OH, HELL, YEAH!!
Now ship his sorry, ranting ass off to Ascension Island and chain him to a rock. Let him let 'er rip for the terns and seagulls down there, for the rest of his miserable life.
I'll warrant that this one does!
"Ugly" doesn't quite get us there.
There is some stock footage of Ayman al-Zawahri ranting just like this guy, from his defendants' cell in the Egyptian courtroom where he and a bunch of other Islamic terrorists were tried for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat.
One's mind goes to how much later trouble might have been avoided, if the Egyptian judge had just quietly ordered the loudmouthed Zawahri to be led out into the desert and left there for the kites and jackals.
We must give him a 100,000 Volt shock treatment to calm him down.
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