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| | CNN.com - UK cleric sentenced to 7 years in prison - Feb 7, 2006 |
 | | Al-Masri, who has alleged ties to the al Qaeda network, formerly preached at the Finsbury Park Mosque in London. |
 | | His followers included the so-called "shoe bomber," Richard Reid -- who was convicted of trying to light a bomb in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight, and Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be charged in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. |
 | | The material al-Masri was convicted of possessing included a 10-volume "encyclopedia" of Afghani jihad, which prosecutor David Perry described as "a manual for terrorism." The texts discussed how to make explosives, explained assassination methods and detailed the best means of attack. |
| www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/europe/02/06/britain.hamza (800 words) |
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