On Witness Stand, Muslim Cleric Mustafa Kamel Mustafa Denies Supporting Terrorism
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – An Egyptian cleric known for his incendiary rhetoric at a London mosque denied on the witness stand Wednesday that he supported terrorism.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa testified in his own defense in Manhattan shortly after the government rested in the three-week-old trial. Mustafa — who also is known by the aliases Abu Hamza and Abu Hamza al-Masri – has pleaded not guilty to charges he conspired to support Yemeni kidnappers in 1998 and tried to organize an al Qaeda training camp outside Bly, Ore.
As WCBS 880?s Irene Cornell reported, the defendant flatly denied the terrorism charges against him Wednesday afternoon.
He insisted he did not participate in the kidnapping of tourists in Yemen, and said he did not know of the kidnapping plot in advance.
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