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Abu Hamza

I thank you for that guidance, Mr. Cook, and shall accelerate a little. The council was in touch with the security services after Hamza was placed on the UN sanctions list in 2002, shortly after a G8 Finance Ministers conference in Washington, I believe. However, according to residents in Aldbourne road, Hamza was constantly watched by plain-clothes detectives, so the reasoning of the Department for Work and Pensions and the council in saying that they were unable to take action because there was no evidence that he was living in that property does not hold water. Everybody knew that he was living there.