Radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza is on trial in London.

Radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza is on trial in London. The one-eyed, hook-handed, Egyptian-born preacher is charged with inciting murder and "stirring up racial hatred." (He is also wanted in the U.S. on a 2004 indictment for, among other things, providing material support to al-Qaeda.) In sermons at his London mosque, many recorded, Abu Hamza urged followers to kill Jews, non-Muslims, and apostates from Islam. When arrested, he had among his possessions a multi-volume Encyclopedia of the Afghani Jihad, containing instructions on bombmaking and assassination techniques. Abu Hamza arrived in Britain in 1979, had been involved with radical Islamism since the early 1980s, and was imam of his mosque from 1997 to 2003. In fact, the aforementioned encyclopedia had been seized by police in 1999 ... then returned! Under cross-examination by the prosecutor, Abu Hamza asked why, if he was such a danger, the security services had not arrested him before 2004. Good question.