MUHAMMAD
MUSTAPHA KAMIL ("Abu Antar") is the son of Abu
Hamza al-Masri. British; born in London, October 6, 1981.
He says he arrived in Yemen via Aden on November 28, 1998.
He says that before coming to Yemen he frequented Finsbury Park mosque and heard Abu
Hamza's lectures and sermons inciting people to jihad, and, recently, inciting them to
confront Yemen.
He went to Yemen to join the Islamic Army of Aden because
his father considered Yemen ripe for jihad.
Abu Hamza's father provided his son and another young man,
"Ali Muksin", with tickets and £3,000 sterling, promising them more money on
their return. He told them a man called Hatim would meet them at Aden airport and take
them to Abu al-Hassan, whom they must heed and obey.
When he arrived with his companion at Aden airport they
were met by Hatim, Muhsin Ghailan, Malik Nasser Harhara and two others. They went to the
Bab Aden hotel and spent three days there without going out of the hotel, in accordance
with the advice of Ghailan and Harhara. On the fourth day they made a tour of Aden in two
"saloon" cars rented by Ghailan and Harhara.
Then they went to the Markha district of Shabwa province
and met Abu al-Hassan at his house, where they remained for a week.
They asked him if they could go with him and he said jihad
was a difficult path, covered with thorns and blood, requiring a lot of patience. After
that he took them to the camp. There were four of them: Muhammad Kamil Mustapha, "Ali
Muksin", Muhsin Ghailan, and "Abu Hamza".
In the camp they found Muhammad "Abu Huraira",
Abu Dajana, Abu Ra'id, Abu Bassam, Abu al-Barra' … They stayed in the camp for three
days, learning to use a Kalashnikov, but not other weapons.
They returned to Abu al-Hassan's house and spent five days
there, meeting Iyad "Abu Thabit" and Shazad "Abu Dhar". (Kamil says he
did not know them in Britain and did not know when they arrived in Yemen.)
He returned to Aden with Shazad, Abad, and Ghailan after
spending a fortnight in Shabwa with his friends. After 10 days they went from Aden to
Sana'a and stayed in a room at the Roma hotel (in Harhara's name because they had left
their passports with Ghailan in Aden).
They spent three days in Sana'a then went again to Shabwa
by car. They arrived there in the evening and slept in the Sudanese mosque. Abu al-Hassan
and Abu Hamza were in the mosque. In the morning they went to Abu al-Hassan's house and
stayed there two days before going to the camp, where they stayed for one day until Abu
al-Hassan came with the news that there was a problem because the young men had been
caught in Aden with explosives …
After informing them of this, Abu al-Hassan ordered the
Yemeni youths to go home and took the foreigners to his house. After that he took them to
the house of a man called Muhsin and ordered them to remain there. Abu al-Hassan then
left.
On the following day, news arrived that Abu al-Hassan had
kidnapped some foreign tourists and been arrested. Usama al-Masri and Ali al-Hajj had been
killed.
After a week, Abu Huraira and Abdullah al-Junaid - who had
both taken part in the kidnapping - joined them and stayed in Muhsin's house for the
remainder of Ramadan.
Kamil says that before their arrest by security forces
they had left Muhsin's house as requested and gone to a wadi where, on the following day,
they were surrounded and arrested.
Kamil says in his statement that before he came to Yemen,
a man called Amin, who was aged about 30, came to London. He met Amin in his father's
house and he talked about Abu al-Hassan and the Islamic Army …
Kamil says that Abu al-Hassan obtained support from Abu
Hamza, who in turn obtained funds from donations to his father's bank account in London in
the name of "Supporters of Shariah". The donations came from "many rich
countries".
He added that someone called Yasser al-Siri ("Abu
Umar") is in London and had been in Yemen for more than a year. He had a connection
with Abu al-Hassan and had remained in contact even after the arrest of Abu al-Hassan. |