Jury selection has begun in New York City in the trial of an Egyptian Islamic preacher extradited from Britain on charges he conspired to support al-Qaida.

The trial of Abu Hamza, the radical Muslim cleric who was extradited from the UK to America in 2012, is expected to begin in New York today.

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A 30ft effigy of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong wearing a Jim’ll Fix It badge will be burned at a town’s annual bonfire celebrations this weekend.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza has pleaded not guilty in New York to charges that he conspired to set up a terrorist training camp in the US.

Abu Hamza appeared in a New York court today facing terror charges following his extradition from the UK, but the radical cleric did not enter a plea.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects have been extradited to the United States.

The UK's Home Office said today that radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects would be extradited to the US “as quickly as possible” after High Court judges threw out their last-ditch pleas against removal from the UK.

Lawyers for radical cleric Abu Hamza are asking the High Court for time to carry out further medical tests as he renews his long-running legal battle to halt his extradition from the UK to the US.

A British High Court judge has halted the extradition of Abu Hamza to the US after the radical Islamist preacher lodged a last-ditch legal appeal.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza, who held sermons in and around Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, has launched a last-minute High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States, it has been confirmed.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects could be put on a plane to the United States within days after Europe’s human rights judges rejected their bid for an appeal.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects could be put on a plane to the United States within days after Europe’s human rights judges rejected their bid for an appeal.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza and four other terrorist suspects wanted by the US authorities will be handed over “as quickly as possible”, according to the British home secretary.

Five terrorist suspects including radical preacher Abu Hamza can be extradited from the UK to America for trial, human rights judges ruled today.

At least 2,000 displaced Yemenis have returned home to a restive area in the country’s south that has been under the control of al-Qaida-linked militants for more than seven months.

The daughter-in-law of hate preacher Abu Hamza was arrested after reportedly trying to smuggle a sim card into his high-security jail under her burka.

Palestinian militants sent a deadly barrage of missiles flying deep into Israel, demonstrating Hamas still had firepower three days into Israel’s punishing air offensive in Gaza.

Intelligence officials say four foreign militants killed in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan included two top al-Qaida operatives.

Britain is to delay the extradition of radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza to the US to face charges that he helped set up an al Qaida terror training camp.

An Israeli aircraft hit a car filled with explosives in Gaza City after nightfall tonight, setting off a huge blast heard around the city and killing three militants, witnesses and hospital officials said.

A European terrorism suspect accused of planning to teach followers how to make bombs, poison people and slit throats yelled at a judge while proclaiming his innocence.

Moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas made a new push today to restore a cease-fire with Israel that collapsed under a barrage of Hamas rocket fire.

Islamic cleric Abu Hamza was involved in a global conspiracy to wage Jihad against the US and other Western countries, an extradition hearing in Britain was told today.

IMAGES of a suicide bombing and beheadings, bomb-making equipment and newspaper cuttings about the 7/7 attacks on London were all found at the “bomb factory” of the alleged July 21 terror plotters, a court heard yesterday.

Israelis and Palestinians tonight threatened to scrap a truce that has largely ended five months of Gaza violence, with Palestinian militants insisting it must also apply to the West Bank and Israeli leaders complaining that Gaza rocket squads are still active.

LONDON Underground was accused of a security blunder yesterday after it emerged the convicted terrorist son of jailed Islamic cleric Abu Hamza managed to get a job on the network.

POLICE investigating an alleged network of terrorist recruiters were yesterday continuing to question 14 men, including a former associate of the radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza.

Police were tonight continuing to hold 14 men arrested as part of an anti-terror investigation that has seen officers spend another day searching an Islamic school.

An Islamic school remains the focus of a police anti-terror investigation today which has seen 14 people arrested in raids.

A police spokeswoman has said no arrests had been made at the Jameah Islamiyah Secondary School in Mark Cross, Sussex, after police carried out searches early today.

WORSHIPPERS gathering at mosques for Friday prayer expressed a mixture of shock, condemnation and scepticism over the arrest of 24 young British Muslims for an alleged terrorist plot to blow up transatlantic passenger jets.

Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza was given the go-ahead today to challenge his convictions for incitement to murder and race-hate offences.

Prosecutors are urging a judge to reconsider her decision to exclude half the US government’s case against confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

US government prosecutors today argued that a terrorist conspirator who studied in London must be executed for causing the deaths of nearly 3,000 people by failing to tell what he knew of the September 11 attacks.

Officials today defended the time taken to prosecute radical cleric Abu Hamza, who was investigated “a number” of times before he was eventually taken to court on a string of race hate and terror charges.

BRITISH police say London’s Finsbury Park Mosque, where jailed cleric Abu Hamza used to deliver his sermons, had links to numerous terrorism cases around the world in the last decade.

Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza is to appeal his seven-year jail sentence given to him at the UK's Old Bailey after he was convicted of a string of race hate and terror charges.

The potential for Abu Hamza’s speeches to cause “damage” was “simply incalculable”, the British judge sentencing the cleric said today.

Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza was today jailed for seven years at the UK's Old Bailey after he was convicted of a string of race hate and terror charges.

Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has been found guilty of a series of race hate and soliciting to murder charges by an Old Bailey jury.

The Old Bailey jury trying Muslim cleric Abu Hamza on soliciting to murder and race hate charges was warned today not to get “sidetracked” by the weekend’s events.