The notorious hook-handed British hate preacher Abu Hamza claimed he was tipped off by militant contacts in Afghanistan about the September 11 attacks four days before planes struck the World Trade Center in 2001, court papers revealed Monday. The former imam, who remains behind bars in a Colorado prison, said he believed the phone in his London home was being “tapped” by police. Hamza became a leading figure in Britain’s Islamic scene in the late 1990s — most famously preaching in Finsbury Park Mosque. He was thrown in prison without the possibility of parole, but is currently appealing to return to the U.K., claiming he’s being kept in “inhuman” conditions at the “supermax” prison. Court documents said Hamza was being kept in a tiny “cage” and that “the stumps in both arms are subject to regular outbreaks of infection, which have been increasing in severity,” the Telegraph reported.

Source: Fox News January 15, 2018 18:43 UTC