London, Sep 24 : Jailed radical Islamic preacher Abu Hamza’s poem glorifying martyrdom has suddenly appeared on YouTube.
Hamza, serving seven years in London’s top-security Belmarsh Prison, delivers nine verses in Arabic under the title “Death, eagerly for the sake of Allah.”
He praises the “spirit of the martyr” and asks for jihad fighters to be given God’s mercy, The Sun reported.
Last night a senior MP demanded to know how the poem came to be on YouTube - a favourite of millions of web fans.
The verses, used as the soundtrack to an al-Qaeda style video lasting three-and-a-half minutes, has also been posted on a site run by a London-based Egyptian exile listed in the US as a “global terrorist”.