Saturday, October 06, 2012

Extremist Preacher And Terrorist Abu Hamza Finally Taken To United States To Face Trial .

Abu Hamza
Abu Hamza asked the High Court to grant him time for an MRI scan as he renewed a long-running legal battle to halt his extradition from the UK to the US


Charges: Imam Abu Hamza al-Masri, pictured addressing his followers near Finsbury Park mosque, north London, in March 2004, now faces terror charges in America


Radical: Hamza faces 11 counts of criminal conduct connected to the kidnapping of 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998


Extremist preacher with hooks for hands and four other terrorism suspects arrived in the United States from England early on Saturday morning under tight security to face trial.
Abu Hamza al-Masri appeared in court for the first hearing over charges that he conspired to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and that he helped abduct 16 hostages, two of them American tourists, in Yemen in 1998.
He entered no plea in the Manhattan court, while four other alleged jihadists - Syed Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad, Khaled al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary - all pleaded not guilty to a series of terrorist offences.
Hamza came into court without his recognisable hooks, and with both arms exposed through his short-sleeved blue prison shirt. His court-appointed lawyer,
, Sabrina Shroff, asked that his prosthetics be immediately returned 'so he can use his arms'.
The Islamist fanatic lost the last of his countless appeals in a legal farce that has seen him thwart extradition for more than eight years at a cost to British taxpaExtremist preacher with hooks for hands and four other terrorist suspects arrived in the United States from England early on Saturday morning under tight security to face trial.
Abu Hamza al-Masri appeared in court for the first hearing over charges that he conspired to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and that he helped abduct 16 hostages, two of them American tourists, in Yemen in 1998.
He entered no plea in the Manhattan court, while four other alleged jihadists Syed Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad, Khaled al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary - all pleaded not guilty to a series of terrorist offences.
Hamza came into court without his recognisable hooks, and with both arms exposed through his short-sleeved blue prison shirt. His court-appointed lawyeryers of millions of pounds.
An armoured police van collected the hate preacher from HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire at around 7.30pm yesterday, just a few hours after the decision was made.
The van, heavily flanked by a number of other police vehicles with their emergency lights on, drove more than 130 miles to the U.S Air Force base RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk.
Two planes carrying the suspects took off shortly before midnight.



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