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...heat that often reaches 38?C, where they're permitted as little as 30 minutes, three times per week, for exercise. As a teenager in London, Abassi was a good student who liked rollerblading and Michael Jackson. But he came into the orbit of radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, ultimately living at his mosque and setting up a militant Islamic website before allegedly going to Afghanistan for military training, where he was arrested by U.S. forces in December 2001. Begg left Birmingham in June 2001 to take his wife and four children to Afghanistan, where his parents believed...
...influence of Arab and North African nations in Italy's Islamic community. "We want an Italian Islam," he told Time, "not an amalgam of mosques that operate as centers of prayer and political propaganda, and often depend on financing from foreign countries." Though most Islamic leaders back the initiative, Hamza Piccardo, a prominent Italian convert, is suspicious. "We would be coming from a position of weakness," he said. "There is no unifying voice, and our electoral weight is still not strong enough." That could position Pisanu as arguably the most powerful voice in Italy's Islamic affairs. - By Jeff Israely/Rome...
...Mohammed Hamza Zubaidi, the former Prime Minister of Iraq and one of the Pentagon's most wanted, was captured in an evening raid Monday in the central Iraq town of Hillah. A brigade of the Free Iraqi Forces, working with a U.S. Army Special Ops team took Zubaidi from a safe house near the ancient city of Babylon at 9:30 p.m. "Zubaidi has a lot to tell, he's on the list," confirms a Pentagon official in Baghdad. Though now estranged from Saddam Hussein's inner circle, Zubaidi, says a FIF commander, "might have some information about weapons...
...send whoever is ready." A Milan investigator told TIME that the recruits were meant to go to Iraq to fight against U.S.-led forces. - By Jeff Israely/Milan The Limits of Free Speech U.K. Home Secretary David Blunkett launched proceedings to strip Egyptian - born radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri of his British citizenship. The move is the first use of a new law targeted at immigrants whose actions are deemed to seriously prejudice British interests. Abu Hamza applauded the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., and was later banned by the U.K.'s Charity Commission from the Finsbury Park...
...estimated at €2.3 million. The three-story, redbrick mosque has prayer halls to accommodate around 1,500 men, a warren of offices, a shop and, in the basement, a smaller prayer hall with room for 100 women. Toward the end of 1996, the anti-Western cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri became a preacher at the mosque, an appointment that upset many regular worshipers. In 1998 the trustees, using the mosque's status as a charity, moved to have Abu Hamza stopped from preaching because of his fundamentalist views. Several prominent terrorist suspects are known to have visited or stayed...