Arrrr, avast you lubbers!
Written by: Beck
Someone forgot to
inform Abu Hamza al-Masri
That it isn't talk like a pirate day yet. Oh wait, the hook hand isn't just for show? Well, um... my, what lovely teeth you have.
An 11-count indictment accuses the cleric of providing material support to al Qaeda and the Taliban in 1999 and 2000 and of plotting with an Islamic group that kidnapped a group of tourists in Yemen in December 1998, Ashcroft said. Three British hostages and one Australian died in a rescue attempt by Yemeni forces.
Ashcroft said the 47-year-old, Egyptian-born cleric -- born Mustafa Kamel Mustafa -- could face a death sentence or life in prison without parole on charges related to the kidnapping. But in the London hearing, British prosecutors said the United States has told Britain it would not seek the death penalty against Abu Hamza.
Ashcroft then added, "We don't need to seek the death penalty, as he'll be a known terrorist residing in an American federal prison--a fate far worse than death."
