Terrorist recruiter known as "Osama bin London" gets prison term

London - A British man convicted of being a major recruiter for Islamist extremism was Friday sentenced to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment but also told he would not be freed from jail until he had 'reformed.' Mohammed Hamid, 50, from east London, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court in south London for organizing secret training camps for terrorists in Britain to prepare them to fight in Afghanistan. The court heard that the four men who have been sentenced to life for the failed London transport bombings of July 21, 2005 attended the camps set up by Hamid in south-west Britain and in Yorkshire, in the north. Tanzanian-born Hamid, who called himself 'Osama bin London,' was heard saying on a tape played to the court that the murder of 52 Londoners on the Tube and bus system on July 7, 2005, was 'not even a breakfast' for him. His accomplice, Atilla Ahmet, who made 'hate speeches' alongside Hamid, was jailed for six years and 11 months Friday.

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Can he be deported?Mar 8th, 2008 - 16:53:43

Or just send him and his kind to Guantanamo.

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GooseMar 10th, 2008 - 08:48:46

A bullet costs a few pence.

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