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Abu Hamza pleads not guilty in US to terrorism

British radical Islamic preacher Abu Hamza pleaded not guilty in a US court on Tuesday to 11 terror charges, including conspiring to set up an Al-Qaeda-style training camp on American soil.

A New York City police officer walks past a Homeland Security vehicle outside of US District Court in Manhattan. Radical Islamic preacher Abu Hamza pleaded not guilty in a US court on Tuesday to a raft of terror charges, including conspiring to set up an Al-Qaeda-style training camp on American soil.

The one-eyed, handless 54-year-old appeared in Manhattan federal court without his trademark prosthetic hook that he wears on one arm and which was removed by US authorities after he was extradited from Britain last week.

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