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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...

WASHINGTON - Jim Manley, a long-time top staffer in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's press office, is leaving to head the newly created communications ``war room'' of the recently elected Senate Democratic leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).      Manley, who spent the past 11 years as press secretary to Kennedy and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will now take on the title of staff director of the Senate Democratic Communications Center.      He will oversee a 15-member staff developing a message and communications strategy for Reid and the Senate Democratic caucus.      Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] was often criticized for...