A fiery British cleric accused of facilitating violent jihad in Afghanistan and setting up a terrorist training camp in the US was convicted by a court in New York on 11 terrorism charges and faces a maximum prison sentence of life.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, 56, who also went by the name of ‘Abu Hamza’, will be sentenced in September before US District Judge Katherine Forrest, who presided over the trial in Manhattan federal court.
Mustafa, 56, a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom, was extradited from the United Kingdom to the US in October 2012.
He was convicted for his participation in a hostage-taking in Yemen in 1998 that resulted in four deaths, a conspiracy to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon in 1999 and supporting violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001.
