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Sean O'Neill

THE SUICIDE FACTORY: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque Paperback – 4 Oct. 2010

by Sean O’Neill (Author)

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Two veteran journalists tell the inside story of convicted hate-monger Abu Hamza, his infamous Finsbury Park Mosque and how it turned out a generation of militants willing to die – and kill – for their cause…

In the heightened atmosphere following the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Mostafa Kemal Mostafa, aka. Abu Hamza al-Masri, was a gift to tabloid newspapers. His prosthetic hook hand, glass eye and rabid pronouncements as imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque made him the very image of a bogeyman, easily caricatured and ultimately dismissed by intelligence analysts who judged him offensive, but essentially foolish. They were wrong.

In this chilling investigation, senior news journalists Daniel McGrory and Sean O’Neill reveal that the imam recently convicted for inciting murder and racial hatred not only indoctrinated vulnerable young Muslims into a firebrand version of Islam, but supported Taliban leaders, had direct contact with al-Qaeda and recommended recruits for terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Under Abu Hamza's leadership, the north London mosque became a place where young zealots were taught hand-to-hand combat, the use of knives, how to dismantle and reassemble firearms and surveillance techniques. Amongst the extremists who looked to Abu Hamza for leadership were Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called twentieth hijacker from the attacks of 9/11, and Mohammed Sidique Khan, the ringleader of the 7 July London bombings.

Using the account of an inside informant, the jail diary of a former recruit, security records and recollections of followers and associates of the imam, the authors dig behind the notoriety Abu Hamza has been content to foster for the real story of a larger-than-life man who has lied repeatedly about his background, his first (bigamous) marriage to an Englishwoman and even the cause of his famous injuries. Even more alarmingly, they reveal how British security forces for years allowed the Egyptian’s training ground to thrive, turning a blind eye to the dangers of home-grown extremism and permitting some of the most fanatical elements from around the world to establish London as their base…

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368 pages
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Harper Perennial
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4 Oct. 2010
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12.7 x 2.34 x 20.32 cm
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0007234694
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978-0007234691

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'...the reporting is impressive and hugely entertaining.' -- The Spectator

'the straightest account [of] our dimwitted and wildly ill-considered attempt over the past...to engage with and exploit radical Islam.' -- The Sunday Times

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Daniel McGrory and Sean O'Neill are senior news journalists with The Times.

McGrory has reported on the rise of Islamist terrorism for a decade. He is an award-winning journalist and was one of the first British reporters to identify the threat posed by radical clerics granted political asylum in Britain.

O'Neill joined The Times from the Daily Telegraph, where he focussed on al-Qaeda after years reporting on the IRA. He was the first reporter to document how al-Qaeda used London as a base and has covered all the major terrorist trials in the UK since 2001.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 4 Oct. 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0007234694
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007234691
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 267 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.34 x 20.32 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 1,102,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 421 in Terrorism & Freedom Fighters Biographies
- 1,528 in Organised Crime Biographies
- 1,959 in Religious History of Islam
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A. Mohamood
Gripping and detailed expose of Jihadist activity during the era of Abu Hamza.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2016
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Chilling account of a gangster/'cleric' who dominated North London's Islamic community during the late 90s and early part of this century. O'Neill and McGrory use the method of investigative reporting to bring to light Abu Hamza's malign, oafish and thuggish dealings from his base in Finsbury Park. Anyone reading this gripping expose of Jihadist indoctrination and recruitment will wonder how London and Britain came to be a safe haven for every stripe of Islamic fanatic during the 90s. Thankfully, policymakers are belatedly realising the dangers of political Islam but a whole generation was poisoned by men like Hamza, Bakri Mohammed, and Qatada before Britain woke up to the scale of the threat.

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andrew pettitt
delivered as advertised
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2015
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delivered as advertised

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Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2017
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The book is excellent from the expectations I had.

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Kai
fictitious nonsense (minus 1 star)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2011
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I find these 5star reviews very amusing!
Without pompous academic posturing, I should say I work in this area. My PhD is in the field of counter-terrorism & community cohesion. The case study of Abu Hamza is one I am particularly familiar with & I can assure you this book is scaremongering waffle of the worst kind. I feel that it is in the public interest to be aware of this - hence the review.

People may enjoy reading this book because the authors are journalists. They write vaguely entertaining, sensationalist stories for mass consumption, but frankly it should be included under 'fiction' as the majority of this book is conjured from the creative recesses of the author's imagination, not from the reality of events that took place.

I am not going to catalogue this books failings, all I shall say is it is based on circumstantial, unverified (& often unverifiable) hearsay & speculation. I offers almost no actual evidence (or often sources/citations for that matter)for many of the book's 'facts'. It is heavily subjective, factually inaccurate & almost no primary source material or genuine scholarly rigour is observable here...
For a slightly more specific, comical (albeit equally bias!!) review of this book's inept & inaccurate account of Finsbury Park Mosque visit [...]

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Superflea
but it does ramble on with a lot of useless information, some of it you will find interesting ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2014
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some interesting pages in this book, but it does ramble on with a lot of useless information, some of it you will find interesting other parts you will just skip over the pages

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Rosamunda
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 December 2014
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Very good read. Explains a lot of questions the public must be asking.

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J. P. Maciag
PC Plod vs. Global Jihad
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2007
Format: Paperback
This book is a wonderful although depressing antidote to those that wish to believe that the UK Government knows what it is doing in the fight against Global Jihad.

In essence, this is the story so far, of Abu Hamza (of the hooked hands) and his establishment of a terrorist base right in the middle of north London at the Finsbury Park Mosque. It tells how he got into the UK through deception and how he used British rights and the welfare state to facilitate and fund his enterprise. The book demonstrates how the British authorities knew what Hamza was doing but were hamstrung by a learnt `respect' for Islam and a belief that Hamza was just another crazy foreigner (like Marx) who had no plans for disruptive activities in the UK. They had no concept of the notion of local action as part of global Jihad. Indeed, it was only well after the attacks of 9/11 that the Americans, frustrated with the UK Government inactivity, requested that Hamza be extradited to stand trial in the US. Astonishingly it was in Hamzas defence that the UK authorities began their own prosecution as a means of preventing his trial in the US!

Naturally, Scotland Yard made sure it used only shoeless Moslem police officers to raid the Finsbury Park Mosque.

The joy of this book is less in the overall story, which is quite well known, than in the detailed depiction of the UK authorities utter incompetence in dealing with the obvious threat. It is a very good read and it is very well and clearly written. Is it great literature? I'm not sure, but it certainly is great journalism.

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Harry Hayes
The False Religion of Hate
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2007
Format: Paperback
Abu Hamza, like so many hundreds of other Islamic teachers of hate, was able to use religion to advance their warped sense of Islam. This happens not only in the United Kingdom but worldwide. Governments must not allow this to happen or such monsters will ruin not only the lives of those interested in Islam but also the innocent victims whom they lust to torture and kill.

Harry Hayes

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