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05/27/2004 Archived Entry: "US CHARGES 'HATE' CLERIC"

Posted by steve @ 03:38 PM EST [Link]

CAPTAIN HOOK CHARGED: Radical English cleric Abu Hamza was today charged by American authorities with 11 related terror charges.

Hamza, 47, who was arrested this morning in London, is accused of "hostage-taking" and of setting up terrorist training camps in America and Afghanistan.

US Attorney General John Ashcroft told a press conference the charges carried the death sentence.

But British law prevents suspects being extradited to countries that carry out executions.

Read on.