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...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...
...their search and withdrawn, handing over the keys to the mosque trustees. But Friday morning, the mosque was still shut - this time it was the trustees who had padlocked the building, and even had its lower windows barricaded in corrugated aluminum. The mosque's firebrand cleric, Abu Hamza al-Masri, who lost one eye and most of two arms to a landmine in Afghanistan, was instead forced to hold Friday prayers in the street for some 150 worshipers, a service given protection by the police. The trustees have clashed for years with Abu Hamza, who effectively took control...
...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 at the mosque, including...
...French. French investigators have long been frustrated that Britain, with its traditions of free speech and its relatively relaxed controls, has ignored their warnings of Algerian terrorist suspects on its soil. The French have also chafed at British tolerance for the militant preaching of extremist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. His sermons attract fundamentalist Muslims to the Finsbury Park mosque, including many Algerians who live in this north London neighborhood. Prominent terror suspects have found inspiration there, including alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussaoui, now in a U.S. prison, and Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian...
...report came out," says another senior official. But, this person adds, "We were very close to a major natural disaster." Chepchugov says there are some indications that at least one radical fundamentalist is showing interest in computers. The imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London, Abu Hamza al-Masri (also known as Mustafa Kemal) "has gathered around himself a group of computer specialists," Chepchugov says. "This is indirect proof that Muslim extremists understand the potential of computer-based terrorism." Meanwhile, another Russian specialist in computer crime remarks, "I think our American friends are very interested in the Pakistan Hackerz...