Prosecutor Ian McGinley told a jury Wednesday that weeks of testimony, tapes of speeches and the defendant’s own words from the witness stand should erase all reasonable doubt that London imam Mustafa Kamel Mustafa championed terror attacks and hostage taking.
Delivering the government’s closing argument, McGinley, a Southern District assistant U.S. attorney, said the man also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri lied on the witness stand—and lied badly—to distance himself from al Qaida, Osama bin Laden, a kidnapping in Yemen and missions by his minions to train for terrorism in Afghanistan and Oregon.
