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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: January 17, 2006 |
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A Muslim cleric being tried in Britain for incitement to murder accused Western leaders of being the "sugar daddies" of Israel, his trial heard Monday.
Egyptian-born Abu Hamza al-Masri suggested in an October 2000 sermon that Western leaders did not favor Israel because they liked it, but because it keeps files full of compromising information it could use to blackmail them.
"Now all these dogs of the West they have to go now, none of them have condemned what Israel has done to the Muslims and the Palestinians," he says in a video of the sermon played to an Old Bailey jury.
"Why they act like sugar daddy for Israel? Because they love the Israelis? No way!
"Because they hate them very much, but the Israelis know how to deal with them," he said.
"They got a file for each one of these politicians, how much homosexual you are, how many money he has taken as bribe, whom his wife goes with, which child he has been abusing, and they got all this against them."
"Jews know how to control people."
Al-Masri, 47, faces life in prison if convicted of inciting murder and stirring racial hatred in speeches recorded on nine video and audio tapes made for supporters. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Until 2003, Al-Masri was head preacher at Finsbury Park mosque in north London, which has been linked to several terrorist suspects, including alleged Sept. 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.
British authorities have charged al-Masri, whose real name is Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, with multiple counts of inciting the killing of Jews and other non-Muslims, using threatening or abusive language designed to stir racial hatred and possessing a terrorism-related document.
He is wanted in the United States on an 11-count indictment from 2004 that charges him with conspiring to provide material support to the al-Qaida terror network by establishing a training camp in Oregon, conspiring to take hostages in Yemen and facilitating training in Afghanistan. |
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