(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121009_abu-hamaz-plea-sketch_10ampt.photoblog600.jpg)Jane Rosenberg / ReutersIn this courtroom sketch, Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is seen standing with his lawyer Jeremy Schneider in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where he pleaded not guilty to criminal charges on Tuesday.By NBC News staff and wire servicesAn extremist preacher accused of terrorism by the U.S. government pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges related to conspiring with Seattle men to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) Egyptian-born Abu Hamza al-Masri, indicted under that name Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, is accused of providing material support to al-Qaida network by trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Ore., in 1999 and of attempting to organize support for the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Hamza is also charged with helping abduct 16 hostages — including two Americans — in Yemen in 1998; three Britons and an Australian were killed.
After Hamza's plea, U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest set the 54-year-old's trial to begin Aug. 26, 2013, The Associated Press reported.
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i still strongly believe he would get a harsh judgement at the end of the day