An August 25, 2002 file photograph shows radical Muslim cleric Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri addressing the sixth annual rally for Islam in Trafalgar Square, London. A court ruled on Thursday that Abu Hamza al-Masri could be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges including trying to set up an al Qaeda training camp in Oregon. (Ian Waldie/Reuters)
If ever there was a candidate for so-called “waterboarding” this sh:theel is it. He’ll wish he was at Gitmo before the DIA boys are done with him...
The only thing he’s missing is a tatoo of the jolly roger on his forehead.
Hamza is going to die, alone, in the US prison cell that he spends the est of his life screaming at the at the walls.
Pain Be Upon Him.
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza kept a terrorism “manual” which contained a dedication to Osama bin Laden and suggested a list of potential targets which included skyscrapers and Big Ben, the Old Bailey heard.
The Encyclopaedia of Afghani Jihad, which was found at Hamza’s home, also advised hitting targets such as the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower to cause “destruction” and suggested attacks on museums or archaeological sites. It said plans “should be laid out” to hit buildings such skyscrapers, ports, airports, nuclear plants and football stadiums and it talked about attacking large congregations of people at Christmas.
“This, the prosecution say, is a blueprint, a manual for terrorism which echoes the things which feature in the defendant’s speeches,” said David Perry prosecuting.... ———— “Hamza ‘had terrorism manual’ ,” the Evening Standard, ?January 13, 2006? via http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/01/009783print.html Posted at January 13, 2006 06:43 AM
* Abu Hamza : The barely literate former Finsbury Park Mosque headliner makes a fetish of dressing in flowing Arabic robes and looking sinister, using a steel hook, rather than a lifelike prosthetics, for a hand. He claims to have lost his eye and both hands fighting the Russians with the mujahudin in Afghanistan. However, writing in Front Page Magazine last year, Farrukh Dhondy noted that the dates don’t gibe with photographs. There are pictures of Hamza years after the Afghan Russian conflict with two hands and two eyes. Dhondy speculated that Captain Claw could owe the loss of his eye and his hand to careless handling of a bomb he was making. ———Snatching Captain Claw
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