[Ynet] A former London imam told a jury Monday that he tried to help hostages in Yemen in 1998 by urging their captors to let them telephone embassies and their families.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa
| ...a.k.a. Abu Hamza al Masri, or "Hook Hand" for short, because in a moment of sheer stupidity he blew both his hands off trying to learn how to make bombs... |
testified for a third day in Manhattan federal court. He has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to charges that he conspired to support terrorism by helping the hostage takers, by later trying to create a training camp in Oregon and by arranging for men to attend al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. If convicted, he would likely face life in prison. |
