Britain can extradite jailed radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza and four other alleged terrorists to the US, the European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday.

Hamza is also accused of helping a gang of kidnappers

The court found “there would be no violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights” if the five were extradited, but allowed a three-month stay for an appeal.

Abu Hamza, the former imam of the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, is wanted in the US on charges including setting up an Al-Qaeda-style training camp for militants in the northwestern US state of Oregon.

He is also accused of having sent money and recruits to assist Afghanistan’s hardline Taliban militia and Al-Qaeda and helping a gang of kidnappers in Yemen who abducted a 16-strong party of Western tourists in 1998.

Hamza, who has one eye and a hook for one hand, was jailed in Britain for seven years in 2007 for inciting followers to murder non-believers.

The court had previously halted the extradition of Egyptian-born Hamza and three of the other men to the US, saying the case needed further examination.

It later found that, given US assurances, there was no real risk the men would either be designated as enemy combatants and be subject to the death penalty or subjected to extraordinary rendition.

Abu Hamza has been charged with 11 different counts of criminal conduct related to the Yemen kidnappings, advocating violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2001 and conspiring to establish a jihad training camp in Oregon between June 2000 and December 2001.

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