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A 9.8-foot grey nurse shark had a lucky escape from a slow and painful death after Australian marine experts removed a large steel fish hook embedded in its throat Wednesday......Sea World director of marine sciences Trevor Long led the expedition on the theme park's rescue boat. "We had an ambitious thought that we could find the shark and catch it and we were prepared to stay as long as it took," he said. "We were extremely fortunate to find it on the first dive." Three divers armed with strong rope descended to 46 feet in a bid to lasso the...

Austin, TX -- A 7-year-old boy who was found injured, hanging from a hook in a bathroom at NYOS charter school, died at 2:33 p.m. Friday, Austin police confirmed. KXAN Austin News on Wednesday reported the child may have suffered from a heart attack. Police said he was in cardiac arrest from a lack of oxygen from the hanging. The Austin Police Department said the boy was found injured under "suspicious circumstances." Police said the boy was found hanging by his shirt on a hook in the gym locker room bathroom with his pants down and underwear on. The incident...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 7-year-old boy is in critical condition after being found hanging by his shirt collar from a clothing hook in a charter school's dressing room, and police tried to determine Thursday whether it was an attack or an accident. The shirt collar cut off the boy's oxygen, and he was unconscious when a teacher found him Wednesday, said police Lt. Mark Spangler. He was in critical condition at a hospital Thursday. "We're not ruling anything out. We can't rule anything in at this point," Spangler said about the investigation. "Nothing is stepping out to us to...

TWO Cornish fisherman came back with a bigger catch than usual, after reportedly hooking a live deer which had fallen into the sea. Chris Earl and Tony Allsopp were checking lobster pots when they spotted the animal swimming about 1km off the English coast. They threw a line around the beast and hauled it on board by its antlers.

During a class discussion on adolescence, a high school teacher recently asked her students whether they go on dates. We don't "date," the 12th graders reported. We "hook up." If you're in your 40s, "hooking up" might mean catching a friend downtown for lunch. But to people in their teens or 20s, the phrase often means a casual sexual encounter _ anything from kissing onwards _ with no strings attached. Now a new book on this not-so-new subject is drawing fire in some quarters for its conclusion: That hookups can be damaging to young women, denying their emotional needs, putting...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - A man hunting for American Indian artifacts with his sons along a gravel bar on the Missouri River has uncovered an ancient fishhook that is making collectors envious. "The first thing I thought is, 'I hope this isn't metal,'" said Eric Henley, who found the hook last month near McBaine. "When I picked it up, there was a pretty good jump for joy and a couple of 'whoops' and yells. It's the cream of the crop." The hook is made of bone and covers his entire palm, making it much larger than most bone hooks. Joe Harl,...

Missouri man reels in ancient fish hook<Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. - A man hunting for American Indian artifacts with his sons along a gravel bar on the Missouri River has uncovered an ancient fishhook that is making collectors envious. "The first thing I thought is, 'I hope this isn't metal,'" said Eric Henley, who found the hook last month near McBaine. "When I picked it up, there was a pretty good jump for joy and a couple of 'whoops' and yells. It's the cream of the crop." The hook is made of bone and covers his entire palm, making it...

     Convicted fanatic ... Mostafa    EXCLUSIVE  Hook son's job on Tube By NICK PARKEROctober 31, 2006           THE terrorist son of hook-handed Abu Hamza has been working on London’s Tube, The Sun can reveal.  Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 25 — a convicted fanatic who has glorified suicide attacks like the 7/7 slaughter — was rumbled by Underground workmates when they saw his picture in The Sun.  They went straight to bosses, who told Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 25, to sling his hook.But last night fury erupted over the security shambles that led to the convicted terrorist being...

IN THE WEST, Qana, a small Lebanese village southeast of Tyre, is believed by some to be the place where Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine. In Lebanon and throughout the wider Arab and Muslim world, however, the village's name has for the last decade been synonymous with something else: the killing in April 1996 of more than 100 men, women and children who had taken refuge in a U.N. compound, hiding from Israeli shelling directed at Hezbollah. Over time, Qana has been sculpted by Hezbollah into a symbol of martyrdom, a Shiite version of Sabra and...

The Times February 09, 2006 Police had Hamza 'murder evidence' 7 years ago By Sean O’Neill, Daniel McGrory and Philip Webster Phone-tap record inadmissable in UK will be used by Americans Listen to Hamza (clip1) Listen to Hamza (clip2) AMERICA will use phone tap evidence gathered by Britain seven years ago to try to jail Abu Hamza al-Masri for life on terrorist offences. Bugged conversations between the radical imam and the leader of a gang that kidnapped 16 Western tourists in Yemen are banned in the British courts. Yet the same wiretap material, amassed by British Intelligence, will be central...

LONDON, England (AP) -- Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Mazri has appeared in a London court on charges including encouraging the murder of Jews and other non-Muslims. Tuesday had been set for the start of Abu Hamza's trial, but the first session was taken up with legal arguments, which are expected to continue all week. Court orders forbid any reporting of the arguments, which take place without a jury present. Abu Hamza, wearing a blue smock and with neatly trimmed gray hair and beard, was surrounded by four guards as he stood in the dock at the Central Criminal Court....

A Los Alamos whistleblower scheduled to testify before congress later this month is now in the hospital, according to news reports. Auditor Tommy Hook was brutally beaten by three or four anonymous assailants who allegedly ordered him to keep quiet. On Saturday night, Hook went to a Santa Fe bar ostensibly to meet a person claiming to be a fellow Los Alamos whistleblower that called that night. When the person did not show, Hook left the bar after consuming two drinks. Whistleblowing auditor Tommy Hook before and after the beating. (CBS News photos) In the parking lot, he was yanked...

Los Alamos Whistleblower Severely BeatenNewsMax.comTuesday, June 7, 2005 A Los Alamos National Laboratory whistleblower who has uncovered irregularities involving millions of dollars of taxpayer money at the government-backed facility was brutally beaten this past weekend. According to several news reports, auditor Tommy Hook was violently attacked by three or four anonymous assailants, who allegedly ordered him to keep quiet. Hook was scheduled to testify before Congress later this month, but is now in the hospital. Story Continues Below On Saturday night, Hook went to a Santa Fe bar, ostensibly to meet a person claiming to be a fellow Los...

EXCLUSIVE Was it a right hook or left hook? Thumped ... Abu Hamza       By NEIL SYSON HOOK-HANDED Abu Hamza has been viciously attacked by a fellow jail inmate, it emerged last night.The fanatical Muslim cleric, 47, was thumped inside London’s top-security Belmarsh prison, a jail source said.  DID you whack Hook? If so call The Sun on 020 7782 4105. And by the way, WELL DONE!

It is the ethical dilemma that for decades has troubled the rich and aspiring the world over: when you place a live lobster in a pot of boiling water, does it feel pain? Norwegian scientists were asked to investigate pain, discomfort and stress in invertebrates and claim now to have discovered that the answer is no. Their conclusion applies also to crabs and to live worms on a fish hook. None of these feel a thing. Which is good news for Norwegian fishermen at least. Their government was considering a ban on live worms as fish bait under revisions to...

EXCLUSIVE Hook sues for new hand-out Suing ... Hamza       By JOHN ASKILL LOATHED cleric Abu Hamza is suing benefit chiefs from his jail cell — for stopping cash over his alleged terror links. Hook-handed fanatic Hamza, 47, claims he is owed thousands of pounds over nearly three years — despite his family getting £1,000-a- week hand-outs. A jail source said: “He has a cheek.”      Hamza already gets this lot...   Rent-free £500k house for wife and eight children  £2million from the taxpayer to fund 7-year legal fight against deportation  Bed-linen changed daily plus help to...

  Abu Hamza ... will be charged         US fury over hook trial By SIMON HUGHES  HOOK-handed cleric Abu Hamza is set to face terrorism charges in Britain next week — a move certain to infuriate the United States.Washington wants him to face a terror trial over there after issuing an extradition warrant.But a Whitehall source said yesterday: “Hamza will definitely be charged. It is just a question of what with.”Crown Prosecution Service lawyers — who consulted and were sanctioned by the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith — have advised police to charge the ranting cleric with...

Terror suspect Abu Hamza has reportedly been handed new £5,000 hooks by the NHS and his own bottom wiper in jail. The Islamic preacher has been fitted with replacement hooks after fears his original metal ones could be used as weapons. Worries Hamza may hurt himself wiping his bottom reportedly prompted officials to hire a £30,000-a-year nurse called Harry to do the job. The prison helper already performs the role for other inmates at the top-security Belmarsh jail, and has earned the nickname Dirty Harry. A source told the Daily Mirror: "This guy has one of the worst jobs in...

An Alaska woman knows firsthand some of the key events in the indictments yesterday of Abu Hamza al-Masri. Mary Quin, 50, was one of 16 tourists taken hostage in Yemen by terrorists federal agents say were aided by the London cleric. Quin, an Anchorage businesswoman, was riding in a caravan in the Yemeni desert, heading to Aden, when the group was ambushed by gunmen on Dec. 28, 1998. They forced one of the five four-wheel-drive vehicles off the road, and men with AK-47s jumped out of the brush. For the next day, she and the other hostages were moved several...

Phone tap ban prevented Hamza trial in Britain By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 29/05/2004) Home Office dithering over a decision on whether to permit the use of phone tap evidence in court emerged yesterday as a key reason why Abu Hamza could not be tried in Britain. Although the Government has said for years that it was "reviewing" the prohibition on intercept evidence and was "minded" to lift the ban, it has yet to produce firm proposals. Hamza is in Belmarsh jail David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, conceded yesterday that evidence in American hands allegedly linking the extremist...

Early yesterday morning, I was woken to the sound of vehicles and voices outside. At 4am our street in Shepherd's Bush, west London, is normally as quiet as a country churchyard, save for blackbirds, amorous tomcats and the occasional bark of an urban fox. Bleary-eyed, I peeped through the curtain. In the lamplight, I saw three policemen outside our house. The street was cordoned off. Half-asleep as I was, my old reporter's instincts were aroused. We aren't used to dawn raids in my street, and I hope we never shall be. So, in pyjamas, slippers and dressing gown, I went...

(CNSNews.com) - Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Muslim cleric arrested in Britain Thursday and facing extradition to the United States, is closely linked to the Yemeni terrorist group that claimed responsibility for bombing the USS Cole. Seventeen sailors were killed when the U.S. Navy destroyer was bombed during a refueling stop in Aden, a deep-water port on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, on Oct. 12, 2000. Several days after the attack, al-Masri claimed responsibility on behalf of the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, a group with whom he was closely associated. In an interview with CNSNews.com in London, the Egyptian-born...

Captain Claw, aka Abu Hamza, the one-eyed, steel hook-handed Islamofacist, previously the headliner at the London’s notorious Finsbury Park mosque, was arrested by police at dawn on Thursday.  Anti-terrorist police, who were acting on an extradition warrant issued by the US government, are searching his apartment under the Extradition Act 2003 as I write these words for Front Page Magazine.  According to London’s The Telegraph, the street is cordoned off and items have been seized, including videos, documents and a briefcase. It is thought the US authorities plan to charge the Egyptian-born radical cleric, who has spoken out in defense of...

May 28, 2004 -- Yesterday's arrest of Britain's most no torious Muslim cleric, Abu Hamza al-Masri, on U.S. terrorism charges — coming on the heels of the Justice Department's latest terrorist advisory — is a sobering reminder that the War on Terror is not limited to the Middle East. Al-Masri (whose real name is Mustafa Kamel Mustafa) was charged in an 11-count indictment in Manhattan federal court with providing aid to al Qaeda — including trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon before 9/11. The indictment was handed up last month; it was only unsealed after British police...

May 28, 2004 -- The land-mine explosion that cost radical Muslim imam Abu Hamza al-Masri the use of one eye and his two hands left his mind as twisted as his body. It turned the Egyptian-born al-Masri into a man who foments hate — a cleric who is regularly derided in British tabloid headlines as "The Hook." Al-Masri was named Mustaf Kamel Mustafa by his middle-class parents when he was born in Alexandria, Egypt, 47 years ago. In his mid-20s, he headed for England to become a civil engineer. He worked for a while as a bouncer at a London...

May 28, 2004 -- An NYPD cop has accomplished what federal investigators and Britain's top terror-busters have failed to do for years — crack the case against a fanatical cleric implicated in a deadly Yemeni hostage-taking and a scheme to open a jihad school in Oregon. It took veteran Detective George Corey — and his precision grilling of an unidentified jihadi already in custody — to build enough evidence for British authorities to arrest London radical and accused al Qaeda recruiter Abu Hamza al-Masri, considered a top prize among terror suspects. Al-Masri — a one-eyed, hook-handed radical who has praised...

<p>A radical Muslim cleric was arrested yesterday in London on charges of seeking to set up an al Qaeda terrorist training camp in southwestern Oregon and on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping of 16 Western tourists in Yemen, four of whom were killed.</p>

<p>May 27 (Bloomberg) -- Police in the U.K. arrested Abu Hamza al-Masri, a Muslim cleric, who has had his U.K. citizenship removed, Sky News reported.</p> <p>A police statement said a 47-year-old man was arrested during a raid at his home at about 3 a.m. London time. The arrest came after a request from the U.S. government for Abu Hamza's extradition, Sky said, citing the police statement. The man is being held in custody and will appear in a London court today, the Sky report said.</p>

HOOK-HANDED Abu Hamza is STILL in Britain — exactly a year after The Sun called for him to be booted out. British taxpayers are having to foot a monster bill for over £1MILLION to get rid of the Muslim fanatic. The cost of allowing the hook-handed cleric to remain here is soaring week after week — prompting angry MPs to demand WHY it is taking so long to boot him out. It is exactly 12 months since The Sun called for Hamza, 46, to be deported but he is still spongeing off the UK — while ranting against it at...