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February 28, 2006
UK: Is Islamist Cleric, Abu Hamza, Going Stir-Crazy In Jail?
An exclusive report by Justin Penrose in this weekend's Sunday Mirror states that Abu Hamza, the hook-handed Islamist fanatic who has called on his supporters to kill Jews and any infidel, appears to be going potty in his jail, HMP Belmarsh.
Belmarsh has been a second home for Hamza, but until his conviction on February 8 he had only been inside Belmarsh as a remand prisoner, with special privileges as he was detained for "public safety" reasons pending possible deportation to his home country of Egypt.
The conviction on 11 of the 15 counts against him, including being found guilty of six counts of soliciting murder and three counts of inciting racial hatred, means that he has a sentence of seven years' imprisonment, and previous lax treatment has now gone, and he has to do his bird like all other convicted prisoners.
He is now expected to do prison work, but the Sunday Mirror quotes a prison source who claims that Hamza believes cooking, cleaning and laundry duties are "peasant jobs".
He is also acting in a decidedly flaky way. The source stated: "He has become increasingly paranoid since he was sentenced at the Old Bailey. He thinks the whole world is out to get him and is convinced that he is going to be murdered in jail. He keeps on complaining that his cell has been bugged and that he is being spied on."
The source denied Hamza's assumptions that the UK intelligence service, MI5, was preparing to have him murdered in prison, where an inmate is bound to eventually ensure an "accident" befalls him. "Of course, it's all in Hamza's mind, but he is becoming more and more irrational," the prison source stated.
Hamza thinks his cell is bugged, and he states he is being spied on. He also waxes apocalyptic, saying that World War III is coming, between Muslims and the West.
A prisoner apparently asked Hamza if his family enjoyed living as parasites at the UK taxpayer's expense, and the cleric responded by threatening to issue a fatwa and calling the fellow inmate "British scum".
Hamza is demanding the right to wear his clerical costume in jail, rather than the standard-issue prison uniform. And he insists that no non-Muslim touches his food or laundry.
But though sentenced to 7 years, the bleeding heart liberals in Britain's judiciary usually release the majority of prisoners after only half their jail terms are completed.
But Hamza will not be returning to his haunts in Britain, such as the Finsbury Park Mosque when he is released. It is almost certain that he will be deported to the US on an extradition order, connected with his role in setting up a terrorist training camp at Dog Cry ranch in Bly, Oregon.
And hopefully, then he will experience what prison life can really be like.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 28, 2006 7:33 PM
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