Abu Hamza became one of their translators. In 1987, these encounters led him to a critical experience: he met Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, the founder of the Afghan Mujahideen, while undertaking the Hajj, ...

In 2014, between 20,000 and 30,000 people from Gaza Strip went to Mecca for Umrah. Abu Hamza, head of the Honiaf Umrah agency in Gaza City, told MEE that this season's Umrah numbers would not ...

Abu Hamza was born Mustafa Kamel Mustafa in Alexandria ... Hamza's turn towards extremism began on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1987 when he met Abdullah Azzam, the leader of the mujahideen in ...

Islamic cleric Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, known as "Abu Hamza," was sentenced Friday to life in prison after being convicted of terrorism charges in plots to kidnap tourists in Yemen in 1998 and build ...

Mecca and Medina are Islam’s holiest cities in western Saudi Arabia. “Al-Qaida in Iraq’s council has agreed on Sheik Abu Hamza al-Muhajer to be the successor for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the leadership ...

Who is Abu Hamza al-Muhajir? No one seems to know for ... originally used to describe the companions of Mohammed who left Mecca for Medina, and it could well be a reference to time spent traveling ...

It must have been a surprise to them, their journalist daughter deciding to take the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca ... He introduces me to a young man, Hamza, from his village in Pakistan ...

NEW YORK -- On a ranch in rural Oregon, a radical Muslim holding a dagger with a curved blade yanked back the head of a kneeling young man and brought the metal to his neck. “He said he was ...

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