Is Abu Hamza really Britain's Bin Laden?

More trash from The Observer, defending Hamza again. What else would you expect from a "so called" newspaper that has George Galloway as their poster boy.

...Few in radical Islamic circles or the intelligence community seriously believe he is 'the bin Laden of Britain', or 'the real [terrorist] deal', as New York police chief Ray Kelly described him. Domestic security sources have consistently referred to him as 'a clown' and say that his public profile was so high that it rendered him useless to any genuine terrorist organisation.

The Observer seems to be well connected to "radical Islamic circles".

I suppose bin Laden is now "useless to any genuine terrorist organisation" due to his high profile. Are there "fake" terrorist organisations as opposed to "genuine" ones?

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...So Abu Hamza joined many activists making their way to London where they could exploit a tradition of tolerance to continue their campaigning.

And we pay for the privilidge.

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Abu Hamza was not a well-known figure in 'Londonistan' in the early Nineties but his ousting of the moderate leaders of Finsbury Park mosque, once a community project sponsored by the Prince of Wales, gave him a base to work from. After consolidating his hold on the 2,000-capacity religious centre - and its funds - Abu Hamza began preaching his violent brand of Islam.

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As investigators reconstructed the al-Qaeda networks behind the attacks in New York and Washington, they discovered a series of connections that ran through Finsbury Park. Zacarias Moussaoui, a French Algerian who has been charged with being part of the team that hijacked the planes which hit the twin towers (the authorities say he was arrested on other charges before he could join the hijackers on the planes), had worshipped there. So had Richard Reid, the British-born convert to Islam who tried to blow himself up on a transatlantic jet in December 2001, and Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian-born former professional footballer and drug addict who was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Belgian court for plotting to blow himself up outside the American embassy in Paris. Many of the Britons who ended up in Guantanamo Bay were found to have spent time at the mosque - as had a series of other militants picked up around the world.

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The American authorities hope his trial will provide a view of a genuine terrorist. But experts point out that, even if proved true, the acts alleged in the indictment took place some time ago. 'If they consider the imprisonment of Abu Hamza a genuinely significant achievement in the war on terror, then we should be very worried,' one analyst said. 'Serious terrorists don't stand in streets and lead prayers.'

So, by the Observers standards, bin Laden should go free because 9/11 "took place some time ago". And, according to the Observer, Hamza is a terrorist, just not a "serious terrorist".

I'd say the Observer did a good job of making the case against Hamza.