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...mosques and youth clubs. "That atrocity broke our hearts," says Mohammed Kozbar, spokesman for the North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park. "I've been shocked and surprised by the news that these young people are British Muslims." Until early 2003, the radical Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was the imam at Finsbury Park, reeling in enthusiastic young followers with his fiery sermons. Now Abu Hamza is awaiting trial on charges that include stirring racial hatred, and a gentler brand of Islam is drawing people back to the mosque. "We have a responsibility as a community," says Kozbar...
...enjoyed Britain's tolerance. In the years before Sept. 11, 2001, French authorities despaired at what they claimed was the tendency of the British authorities to turn a blind eye to events in "Londonistan." It was commonly known that the British kept radicals such as Abu Hamza al-Masri-- formerly the imam of the notorious Finsbury Park mosque--under tight surveillance. But in some quarters there was resentment that simply keeping tabs on radicals while they were in Britain did not stop London from being used as a recruitment and logistics center for operations elsewhere. Last year a self- professed...
...Qaeda operative seized in Pakistan recently offered an alarming account of the group's potential plans to target the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, senior U.S. security officials tell TIME. Sharif al-Masri, an Egyptian who was captured in late August near Pakistan's border with Iran and Afghanistan, has told his interrogators of "al-Qaeda's interest in moving nuclear materials from Europe to either the U.S. or Mexico," according to a report circulating among U.S. government officials. Masri also said alQaeda has considered plans to "smuggle nuclear materials to Mexico, then operatives would carry material into...
...Masri's account, though unproved, has added to already heightened U.S. concerns about Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met publicly with top Mexican officials last week to discuss border security and smuggling rings that could be used to slip al-Qaeda terrorists into the country. Weeks prior to Ridge's lightning visit, U.S. and Mexican intelligence conferred about reports from several al-Qaeda detainees indicating the potential use of Mexico as a staging area "to acquire end- stage chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material." U.S. officials have begun to keep a closer eye on heavy-truck traffic across...
...proper military channels, and that the troops would remain under British command - and be home by Christmas anyway. Blair's backbenchers quieted down - for now. - By J.F.O. McAllister Fresh Charges BRITAIN Prosecutors in London charged radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on 16 counts, including allegations that he incited his followers to murder Jews and other non-Muslims. Abu Hamza, a former imam at a north London mosque, has been in detention since his arrest in May on a U.S. extradition warrant. The British indictment will now take precedence. On the Alert SPAIN Antiterror police asked Switzerland to extradite...