"Abu Hamza claims he secretly ‘kept the streets of London safe’ as a go-between for MI5 and Scotland Yard, a US court heard.
The extraordinary image of the hook-handed Muslim firebrand as a force for religious peace in Britain was laid out in a Manhattan courtroom by his defence lawyer.
Some 50 pages of documents passed on by Britain would prove the police and security services turned to Hamza to help combat Islamic extremism between May 1997 and August 2000, defence lawyer Joshua Dratel said.
‘They take in every conflict we are talking about in this case. Algeria, Bosnia, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Finsbury Park mosque are all central to this case,’ he said.
‘He takes a certain position publicly but his intent is to de-escalate, to avoid a greater war, to keep the streets of London safe.
‘He is an intermediary, he has done this for Scotland Yard and MI5. They have asked him multiple times to act in hostile situations and return some order in the community.’
Mr Dratel said Hamza had helped repeatedly when British nationals had been involved or arrested in conflicts abroad.
The claims contrast starkly with prosecutors’ claims that the 56-year-old former nightclub bouncer posed as a community leader while actually engaging in a ‘global campaign to spread terror’. "
Professional Mossad-baiter.
Tosser.
New Zealander Mary Quin escaped a 1998 kidnapping of 16 mostly British tourists in the Yemen.
Three Britons and an Australian were killed in the subsequent gun battle with Yemeni soldiers, and Hamza is accused of providing the kidnappers with a satellite phone and offering to be their go-between.
Miss Quin described how she flew to London in 2000 and confronted Hamza outside the mosque, demanding to find out more about the hostage-taking.
She said he eventually took her to his office, where, as children played under his desk, he told her he was ‘surprised, very surprised’ she had come.
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