Abu Hamza al-Masri Convicted in the UK
By Evan Kohlmann
Abu Hamza al-Masri, the notorious hook-handed cleric formerly based in the Finsbury Park Mosque in London--and connected with a host of infamous terrorists (including Lionel Dumont, Zacarias Moussaoui, Djamal Beghal, and Richard Reid)--has today been found guilty in a UK court of six charges of soliciting to murder, two charges of using abusive language to incite racial hatred, and an additional Terrorism Act charge for his possession of the 'Encyclopedia of Jihad.' During the summer of 2002, I interviewed Abu Hamza at his London mosque for several hours and discovered firsthand the ugly secrets hiding inside...
See: Behind Bars: The Arrest of Abu Hamza al-Masri (2004)
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