Two veteran journalists tell the inside story of convicted hatemonger Abu Hamza, his infamous Finsbury Park Mosque and how it turned out a generation of militants willing to die and kill for their cause In the heightened atmosphere following the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Mostafa Kemal Mostafa, aka. Abu Hamza alMasri, was a gift to tabloid newspapers. His prosthetic hook hand, glass eye and rabid pronouncements as imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque made him the very image of a bogeyman, easily caricatured and ultimately dismissed by intelligence analysts who judged him offensive, but essentially foolish. They were wrong. In this chilling investigation, senior news journalists Daniel McGrory and Sean ONeill reveal that the imam recently convicted for inciting murder and racial hatred not only indoctrinated vulnerable young Muslims into a firebrand version of Islam, but supported Taliban leaders, had direct contact with alQaeda and recommended recruits for terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Under Abu Hamzas leadership, the north London mosque became a place where young zealots were taught handtohand combat, the use of knives, how to dismantle and reassemble firearms and surveillance techniques. Amongst the extremists who looked to Abu Hamza for leadership were Zacarias Moussaoui, the socalled twentieth hijacker from the attacks of 9/11, and Mohammed Sidique Khan, the ringleader of the 7 July London bombings. Using the account of an inside informant, the jail diary of...

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 450.21 g; Dimensions: N/A

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