How Mirror made cops take action; EXCLUSIVE HATE CLERIC SENT TO JAIL.(News)

Byline: By GRAHAM BROUGH

THE undercover investigator who snared Abu Hamza yesterday thanked the Daily Mirror for helping put the preacher of hate behind bars.

Anti-terror police in Britain and the US ignored Glen Jenvey's warnings about the hook-handed cleric's links to al-Qaeda for more than two years.

And they only stepped in after transcripts of tapes published in this paper showed him telling Muslims to murder enemies of Islam.

Glen, 40, an internet specialist, said: "When I told police about the information I gathered, the response was heartbreaking. I tried to give them the audio tapes I had but they did not want to hear until the Mirror published the story.

"In all, Britain's anti-terror squad visited me three times and I gave two statements, one of which was for the FBI. But it was only when the Mirror got involved they took it seriously."

We revealed how one-eyed Hamza urged violence at recruitment meetings across Britain.

In one of six video tapes made at these meetings the cleric told supporters it was acceptable to murder westerners living in foreign lands.

He ranted: "What are they doing there, anyway? Most of them are spies ... kill them, it's OK."

Glen received tapes and emails for more than a year after posing as an Islamic extremist. The story of how he made contact with Hamza and passed details to the Mirror is told in the book War On The Web: Fighting the Online Jihad.

War On The Web: Fighting the Online Jihad, by Jeremy Reynalds, is published in May.

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