Radical cleric Abu Hamza arrested

BBC News ^ | Thursday, 27 May, 2004

[Mackey]

I'd love the UK to get rid of him once and for all by extradition...

To get rid of him once and for all, you need to use extracution. Drawing and quartering would suffice.

[Tommyjo]

He suffered his injuries in Afghanistan fighting the Russians. Once upon a time he was supported by the West as were all Mujahadeen fighting the Russians.

[BUSHFAN2004]

Good, I hope he ends up in Guantanamo. If the Euroliberals in Britain can deport Pinochet to Spain they certainly ought to be able to deport a genuine terrorist.

[Eurotwit]

Yes, but she has apparently been banned from mosques or something. Not that I think she cares to much.

BTW. Sky News had Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed as a guest to discuss the arrest of Hamza. Bakri ranted on how he loved Osama bin Laden bla bla... I cannot belive how the Sky News interviewer treated Bakri as just another media pundit.

[Tommyjo]

Breaking: The US has charged him on eleven counts, including hostage taking. There is about to be a news conference in the US.

[6323cd]

This is from the Daily Telegraph website:

The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza is facing extradition to the United States on terror charges after he was arrested in a pre-dawn raid.

Police acting on an American extradition warrant arrested the preacher at his London home around 3am this morning.

The 47-year-old was taken to a central London police station and will appear before Bow Street Magistrates Court later today.

Anti-terrorism police are currently searching his house in Shepherds Bush, west London, under the Extradition Act 2003.

Hamza, who was born in Egypt, was already facing extradition to Yemen on terrorist charges.

David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, had applied for him to be stripped of his British citizenship and sent back to the country in April last year under new powers that allows citizenship to be revoked from immigrants who "seriously prejudice the UK's interests".

Hamza preached at a mosque in Finsbury Park, north London, which was linked to al-Qa'eda terrorists after the September 11 attacks.

The details of Hamza's extradition and the offences he stands accused in America will be heard when he appears before magistrates this afternoon.

However, the process could take months, as Hamza can appeal against the extradition ruling.

Dr Imran Waheed, representative in Britain of the global Islamic political party Hizb-ut-Tahrir, claimed that Hamza would not get a fair trial in this country or America.

Muddassar Arani, Hamza's solicitor, said she learned about his arrest when she listened to the BBC news but that she had spoken to him by telephone. "He is quite calm about it," she said.

	27 April 2004: Home Office calls for Muslim cleric to be deported
	21 February 2004: Pressure rises for extradition of Hamza to US

[F14 Pilot]

That is another victory in WAR against TERRORISM!

[Tommyjo]

Pinochet was flown out of the UK back to Chile on a Chilean Air Force Boeing 707. The extradtion never went ahead due to medical grounds. He was never extradited to Spain. The Chilean dropped his trial due to mental health grounds and he remains in Chile.

[nuconvert]

IDIOT

[familyop]

"They wont send him back to Yemen. They will hand him to the FBI authorities."

Then we Yanks will put panties (knickers) on his head, take photographs of him, and parade his arse all over the world media.

;-)

[F14 Pilot]

Yeah! LoL~~~!

[ovrtaxt]

I like your tagline!

Thanks. It worked in Japan...

Here's my reasoning: There's going to come a point where obliterating population centers is the only alternative to defeat. The enemy is rabid, fully convinced that their god is directing them to murder and hate. People so deeply deceived cannot be reasoned with. They must either be converted to Christ, (the ultimate antidote for deception) or taken out of the equation.

Nukes are handy for bringing a sorely needed reality check to large numbers of people, and saving lives in the long run.

[F14 Pilot]

Agreed!