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2004-05-27 Britain
Captain Hook Arrested in London!
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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-05-27 1:47:34 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Ooooh my surprize meter just imploded. Cue seething, whining, and full employment for barristers in 3,2,1....
Posted by Seafarious  2004-05-27 1:51:49 AM||   2004-05-27 1:51:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 War against islam ya say? That would be the social/politico aspects of islam. Yep!
Posted by Lucky 2004-05-27 1:52:42 AM||   2004-05-27 1:52:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ooo an extradition warrant from the US? Thats definitely a surprise. I say we send him to gitmo.
Posted by Valentine 2004-05-27 2:03:18 AM||   2004-05-27 2:03:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bravo! One of London's biggest Islamic instigators down for the count! Let's hope this rat and many others are rounded up and soon!
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-27 2:06:23 AM|| [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12995]  2004-05-27 2:06:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 best news for days.i'm delighted :)
Posted by Shep UK 2004-05-27 2:26:29 AM||   2004-05-27 2:26:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Can I get a HAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Anon4021 2004-05-27 2:29:58 AM||   2004-05-27 2:29:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hooah! Woohoo! And Hurray!
(The bad news is he's going to be going on trial in the US and that means he'll be over here. But we can fry him! Hooah! Woohoo! Hurray!)
Posted by Jen  2004-05-27 2:34:46 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-05-27 2:34:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Anybody know what the US warrant is based on?
Posted by mojo  2004-05-27 2:41:19 AM||   2004-05-27 2:41:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Abu Hamza has been an extremist preacher for years.

I think they left him alone long enough to map his contacts and thwart planned attacks, but perhaps his usefulness is now over?

Deport him!!!!
Posted by Anon1 2004-05-27 3:08:17 AM||   2004-05-27 3:08:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by Dog Bites Trolls TROLL 2004-05-27 3:12:03 AM||   2004-05-27 3:12:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Good, good ... but I want to see where we go with this ... what can the US charge him?
Posted by Edward Yee  2004-05-27 3:19:07 AM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]  2004-05-27 3:19:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Burn the flag and suffer the consequences shithead. Looks like his usefulness to MI5 has expired. However, word of warning - this guy's more slippery than a box of frogs. I should imagine there's some way our farcial judiciary will release him in time for tomorrow's Friday prayers. Jen -Pleeeaze fry him, Pleeeaze...


Posted by Howard UK 2004-05-27 4:00:41 AM||   2004-05-27 4:00:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Too funny, Howard!
(We'll give it that good old Yank "Can do!" spirit!)
We *must* have the goods on him or Tony (and Jack Straw, the wussie) wouldn't let us have him!
Posted by Jen  2004-05-27 4:08:29 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-05-27 4:08:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 I believe he's implicated in the murder of two British/American(?) tourists in Yemen a few years back - I think he was negociating between the hostage-takers and the respective government but actually gave the orders for them to be killed. MI5 have a lot on this guy and must have been using him to some degree. Hi ho it's off to Gitmo we go - I think he'll look simply stunning in an orange boiler suit.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-05-27 4:34:58 AM||   2004-05-27 4:34:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 The British Gavernment has stated they want a guarentee from the U. S. that we won't fry him if he is found guilty, since the death penalty has been outlawed in Britain. If we get him, can we strap him to an electric chair and just put it on "trickle charge"?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-05-27 9:34:49 AM||   2004-05-27 9:34:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 DBT, that quote's spot-on, I fear.

By the way, is Non-Expert still hanging around at all? I was wondering if there were any good books he could recommend on the Arabs.
Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-27 9:42:37 AM||   2004-05-27 9:42:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Let the Yemenis have what's left of him....sharpen his hooks so he can't wipe his ass without bleeding to death
Posted by Frank G  2004-05-27 9:56:27 AM||   2004-05-27 9:56:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 Not sure why everyone's so excited about this. This clown's going to have the best lawyers in the country falling over themselves to defend him. Good luck on getting a conviction. Meanwhile, the press will portray him as some kind of ROP martyr.
Posted by Infidel Bob 2004-05-27 10:16:21 AM||   2004-05-27 10:16:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 apparently james Ujamaa, the oregon guy, ratted Capt Hook out for a reduced sentence. Just good stead law enforcement work. (yes, a plus for Mr. Ashcroft, I must admit)

Not sure if the extradition will allow for the death penalty. Hopefully Capt Hook will squeal, but I wouldnt count on it. At least hes out of circulation - and yeah, Id assume hes no longer of use to MI5.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-05-27 11:12:39 AM||   2004-05-27 11:12:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 from Bloomberg news:

...indicted for hostage taking and conspiracy in New York, [bad grammar here. he was indicted in New York, not taking hostages and conspiring in New York]following his arrest and extradition from the United Kingdom, prosecutors said.

Al-Masri, 47, was also charged by the U.S. government with setting up a terror training camp in Bly, Oregon, from October 1999 to early 2000, according to a Department of Justice statement issued in New York. Al-Masri also was charged with providing material support to the terrorist group al-Qaeda and the Taliban for ``facilitating violent jihad in Afghanistan,'' according to an indictment announced by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft today.

The charges relate to hostages who were taken in connection with a terrorist attack in Yemen in December 1998, Ashcroft said. Four hostages died. Penalties for hostage taking include life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Posted by growler 2004-05-27 11:26:41 AM||   2004-05-27 11:26:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 We don't need no stinking death penalty. Just put in the weight room for some exercise and the other inmates will do the rest.
Posted by ed 2004-05-27 11:33:07 AM||   2004-05-27 11:33:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 Busted! Score one for the good guys!

ULULULULULULULULULULULULULULU!!!
Posted by Chris W.  2004-05-27 11:35:40 AM||   2004-05-27 11:35:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm with ed.
I'm sure they'll have a warm welcome for him at whatever penitentiary he goes to!
One of my memories from 9/11 was hearing on TV of the prisoners at Angola Prison in Louisiana--which is supposed to be one of the toughest-- being so moved to do something (just like the rest of us), that they gave several thousand dollars to help the 9/11 victims' families.
Posted by Jen  2004-05-27 11:36:51 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-05-27 11:36:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#24 Put him in with 'The Sisters'
Posted by Howard UK 2004-05-27 11:40:51 AM||   2004-05-27 11:40:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#25 The Brits would not extradite Hook Boy to Yemen because of the possibility of them executing him. I cannot see how he could go to Gitmo because it has become an international criminal matter, so be prepared for a lefty lawyer media circus, IMHO.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-05-27 11:41:52 AM||   2004-05-27 11:41:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#26 

Bin Laden:

Is that walkman headphones you have?

Listening to music? Tsk Tsk my son.

Guards! Make him deaf!

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-27 12:39:24 PM||   2004-05-27 12:39:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 Mobile phone BigEd. It's a photo of the Hook talking to Khalid Sheikh Mohamed on the secure Al Qaeda phone.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-05-27 12:57:21 PM||   2004-05-27 12:57:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Direct line to Allah
Posted by Nude Motorcycle Girl 2004-05-27 1:07:51 PM||   2004-05-27 1:07:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 I would love to put a bullet between the eyes of that little prick with the wrapped face standing behind Capt. Hook.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-27 1:11:52 PM||   2004-05-27 1:11:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 #s 27, 28 1-888-CALL-OBL (225-5625)
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-27 1:20:08 PM||   2004-05-27 1:20:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Is that walkman headphones you have?

Listening to music? Tsk Tsk my son.

Anyone want to bet this maggot is so decadent that he even consumes beverages with ice?

He [bin Laden] was against any American products and I can tell you this. He was against using ice and he actually forbidded [sic] it on the people that lived around him. Anyhow the people smuggled it in but he had forbidded it.

He had forbidded electricity even if he knew they needed it, but he didn't want them in any way to be spoiled because with some thing that's how it starts, he says. It starts with ice and then something a little more and then a more and more and more and so he restricted. … Lots of the people around him wanted stuff that, you know, were not American, but just pleasures of life that you need every day. But he was trying to keep them as close to him and as close to his way of living as he can.

Osama sounds like the life of the party ... NOT!

It is likely to be several months before a formal committal hearing at which a district judge will look at the evidence and decide whether it is strong enough for extradition.

The Egyptian-born preacher is already at the centre of a deportation battle with the Home Office, which wants to remove his citizenship, gained through marriage in 1981.

It would seem that Hamza is now side-lined for at least quite a while as his legal battle consumes him entirely. In view of the massive Islamic prison recruiting that goes on in America, I'd rather see this maggot in Gitmo.
Posted by Zenster 2004-05-27 1:22:15 PM||   2004-05-27 1:22:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 BigEd,
You sure it's not a phone sex line? With a face like that, I would think the only way he could get some is via long distance.
Posted by ed 2004-05-27 1:22:57 PM||   2004-05-27 1:22:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 Hey, Zenster, how do you know he's NOT going to Gitmo?
(Betcha he does.)
Posted by Jen  2004-05-27 1:31:20 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-05-27 1:31:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 Hmmm, this makes me wonder if Capn Hook is a trade for those British prisoners released from Gitmo several months ago.
Posted by Charles  2004-05-27 1:49:44 PM||   2004-05-27 1:49:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 He won't go to Gitmo. Blair has enough political problems as it is, and sending the Hookmeister to Gitmo would enrage the left wing of Labour.

I like the idea of holding Hookie for several months waiting for a hearing on deportation. That will be inconclusive, and he'll wait several months for another hearing. Then several more months. He'll finally get here and it will take two years to be ready for a trial. All that time he's in stir and in our hands. Works for me.
Posted by Steve White  2004-05-27 1:57:21 PM||   2004-05-27 1:57:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 Hold him a few months, then release him, with effusive thanks for "all his cooperation"...
Posted by mojo  2004-05-27 2:38:51 PM||   2004-05-27 2:38:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 Fine then we dont send him to gitmo, we send him to an 'undisclosed location for detention'. We have LOTS of those ;)
Posted by Valentine 2004-05-27 2:44:42 PM||   2004-05-27 2:44:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 Hold him a few months, then release him, with effusive thanks for "all his cooperation"...

Ding, ding, ding ... We have a winner!
Posted by Zenster 2004-05-27 3:05:15 PM||   2004-05-27 3:05:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 ...fix him up with a surgically-attached new hand (gold plated, with a nice "Courtesy of... [Her Majesty's Prison Service logo]" on the back), and a proper glass eye (with a working iris aperture, independent roaming function, the occasional shutter-click sound effect, a zoom lens and a particular penchant for faces).
Posted by Bulldog  2004-05-27 3:12:56 PM||   2004-05-27 3:12:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 Robo-imam!
Posted by Seafarious  2004-05-27 3:19:00 PM||   2004-05-27 3:19:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 make him walk the plank in the middle of the Atlantic ocean
Posted by Shep UK 2004-05-27 3:31:00 PM||   2004-05-27 3:31:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 Bad pun by newsman on Hannity's radio station. "A man with an eye towards terror has been arrestred. . ."

I guess he lost the eye looking at terror?
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-27 4:05:31 PM||   2004-05-27 4:05:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 WOOHOO...YESSSS!
Looks like Britain gave him just enough rope for him to hang himself.
Posted by Anonymous5023 2004-05-27 5:20:03 PM||   2004-05-27 5:20:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 
#41 make him walk the plank in the middle of the Atlantic ocean

Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-05-27 5:25:29 PM||   2004-05-27 5:25:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 

Yo-ho, yo-ho,
A pirate's life for me. . .
Posted by BigEd 2004-05-27 5:46:43 PM||   2004-05-27 5:46:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 He looks like Captian Hook el-Jihad
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-27 5:50:52 PM|| [http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/3/181819.shtml]  2004-05-27 5:50:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 Captain Hook's videos:
http://www.abuhamza-supportersofshariah.unitedshadeofswords.com/
Posted by TS(vice girl) 2004-05-27 6:04:11 PM||   2004-05-27 6:04:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#48 Why don't we just drop him into the middle of a standard issue British "football" riot. Squish, squish, squish...
Posted by Zpaz 2004-05-27 7:01:09 PM||   2004-05-27 7:01:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#49 Flag stop at FL310 on the trip across the pond.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-05-27 8:05:55 PM||   2004-05-27 8:05:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#50 The detention center at Guantanamo Bay is for enemy combatants, not criminals. Since Cap'n Hook wasn't captured in combat, he won't go there. DUUUUH.
Posted by Gromky 2004-05-27 9:49:39 PM||   2004-05-27 9:49:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#51 Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by Dog Bites Trolls 2004-05-27 3:12:03 AM||   2004-05-27 3:12:03 AM|| Front Page Top

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