[ April 24, 2024 ]
What's next? Will we provide the bombs to kill us with? He gets a computer too.
Thank you, American taxpayer!
He should be brought before a military tribunal and executed. Hamza
faces 11 charges, that include conspiring with Seattle men to set up a
terrorist training camp in Oregon and helping abduct 16 hostages, two of
them American tourists, in Yemen.
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Handless cleric awaiting terror trial in New York gets prosthetics
By Bernard Vaughan | Reuters
By Bernard Vaughan
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The jail holding Abu Hamza al-Masri, the handless Islamic cleric awaiting trial on U.S. terrorism charges, provided him with a new set of prosthetics on Friday, officials said at a hearing on Friday.
His attorneys had been asking for the new limbs for
months, after authorities refused to allow him to wear his usual metal
hooks outside of his jail cell.Britain extradited al-Masri last October. The United
States accuses him of providing material support to the al Qaeda network
by trying to set up a training camp in Oregon, among other charges.Al-Masri is being held in the Metropolitan Correctional
Center next door to the courthouse in lower Manhattan. The
Egyptian-born, white-haired preacher appeared in court on Friday without
any prosthetics.Adam Johnson, an official with the MCC, told U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest
that the jail will also bring in an occupational therapist to teach
al-Masri how to hold things with the new prosthetics "almost in a
chopsticks style."In trying them out earlier on Friday, al-Masri struggled to get used to the limbs' plastic grips, said Lindsay Lewis, one of his attorneys.
In another accommodation, al-Masri, who is also missing
an eye, will have access to a laptop computer to review evidence in his
cell, Forrest said Friday. Forrest said the accommodation is being made
in part because much of the evidence is in Arabic."I must say that this is the first time that I have seen such a thing," Forrest said of the accommodation.
Al-Masri will have access to the computer at all times
except for when it is charging, Lewis said after the hearing. It does
not have Internet access, she said.Al-Masri will also be able to speak with his family by
telephone on March 18, Forrest said. Lewis said after the hearing that
he is only allowed to speak to his immediate family.Although pleased with the accommodations, Lewis told
Forrest that al-Masri still had other needs, including a change of
sheets more often. After the hearing, Lewis explained he needs a daily
change of bedding because of a medical condition. Most inmates at the
MCC get clean sheets once a week, she said.Forrest said that, while she understood Lewis's
concerns, they did not rise to a possible violation of al-Masri's
constitutional rights, as Lewis suggested."It's also not a motel," Forrest said. "So you don't get clean sheets … on demand."
Al-Masri, who has asked to be referred to in court by
his birth name, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, has pleaded not guilty to 11
criminal charges. His trial was recently pushed back to March 31, 2014,
at the request of his attorneys, who cited voluminous evidence they need
to sort through."It really took this conference in order to get the MCC
and the Bureau of Prisons to truly take these requests we've been
making seriously," Lewis said after the hearing.
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20 Comments
11 years ago
The only thing this piece of vile scum should be provided with is a cyanide pill and a plastic mug of stale water, so if the cyanide dont kill him he will suffer a slow agonising death from a water infection!
11 years ago
“Forrest said that, while she understood Lewis’s concerns, they did not rise to a possible violation of al-Masri’s constitutional rights, as Lewis suggested.”
Al-Masri’s constitutional rights?
WHOSE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?
WHAT ARE HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?
11 years ago
In Fact Al-Masri is NOT ‘just” an Enemy combatant,He’s an ENEMY GENERAL.
11 years ago
And why the heck is he being tried
on American soil?
Gitmo not good enuff for him?
11 years ago
the jail will also bring in an occupational therapist
to teach al-Masri how to hold things
with the new prosthetics
A woman, perchance?
11 years ago
It boggles the mind. If these same people had caught Hitler they probably would have plied him with chocolates and flowers. Do they not understand that he is the enemy?
11 years ago
Sorry friends, but American stupidity, just like British stupidity, seems to have no bounds …
And have no doubt … We will all pay for that stupidity.
11 years ago
I wish we had the stones to at least take “these” dregs of the earth…and shave them bald as a pickle before Friday evening prayers.
11 years ago
Why dosn’t the SPLC sue for the assets of these terrorist organizations, like training camp sites, as they did with the KKK. Surely they are more dangerous since 50% of the Klan are FBI informants.
11 years ago
All this provided at taxpayer expense I presume!
He should be locked up in Guantanamo with the other monsters.
11 years ago
It looks like Eric Holders BROTHER IN LAW OR HIS DRINKING buddy? Is he going into Homeland Security with the rest of Holders hate mongering CAIR buddies, or is he white house material? NPR (NATIONAL PALESTINIAN RADIO TALK HOST?) Obamas’ uncle in Kenya?
Is he running for Chicago Governor? Kerrys’ new aide? I KNOW ITS ONE OF THOSE! I can tell by the cheap glass eye and the fake beard.
Shame the explosives went off early and took his child molesting hands.
This is a white house hero. Respect this trash!
11 years ago
Tick Tock … , I do believe the Crock is close by …a tarantella , you say?
11 years ago
How many lives were spared because of this monster’s bomb making incompetence? And what “rights” is his lawyer talking about? Has he sworn to uphold OUR Constitution??
11 years ago
The list of accommodations goes on forever. In the end, he should be let go with an apology for insulting everything that he stands for.
“We have met the enemy and they are us.” is even more true today than ever before.
11 years ago
Charles, yes we will. This truly is madness.
11 years ago
Hamza one advocated WMD, Women of Mass Destruction’… Conceiving and raising a child for the express purpose of jihad…Nice guy huh…
11 years ago
Next…his attorney will be trying to convince the masses that aboo-ham-a-s is an advocate and role model for the physically challenged. He looks like the panhandler on the off-ramp of a highway with the sign which says “will work for food” and walks away after 8-hrs into their $40K SUV parked at the plaza parking lot.
Just fly him back to his country of origin and when over it, strap a parachute on his back and kick him out. Didn’t ever say we had to land…let him figure it out. When folks look up they’ll think he is trying to infiltrate their country and then guess what…? That’s if he figured out how to open his chute!
11 years ago
The long continuance will give him time for all the lawsuits he plans to set up and file against the prison and the government, let alone the jihad attacks and the prison dahwa. Accommodating a disability should be done for every prisoner, but handing an inmate (proverbial) ammunition and waiting around while he loads the gun is just plain stupid.
11 years ago
He wants clean sheets daily? Did hims go pee pee poopy in his panties? Take the prosthetics away. Did hims blow off hims arms and eye by accident? No quarter for terrorists. Lie in the sheit You Have Made. Terrorist scum. Or let Holders or Obama wipe your ass for you. Disgusting that his constitutional rights were even discussed. What rights? Oh for a Churchill.
11 years ago
I think Abu Hamza al-Masri should be sharing his cell w/a black mamba or two, after all, allah will protect him.
