The London-based imam accused of providing material support and resources to al Qaida, the Taliban and Yemeni hostage takers, told a jury Thursday that he lost his hands in a 1993 explosion while working as a contractor for the Pakistan military.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, who is facing a life sentence for charges that include inciting young men to violent attacks, testified that many people in London, where he would ultimately be a leader at the radical Finsbury Park mosque, assumed he “was a hero” when they saw his arms. “People see me as a person who was injured in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said.
