He will be sentenced at a hearing on September 9, two days before the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States by al-Qaeda.
The judge is expected to hand down a life sentence which he will almost certainly serve in the federal “supermax” high-security prison in Colorado that houses several other convicted terrorists.
The guilty verdicts are a major victory for British and US authorities and followed a lengthy battle over his extradition from the UK which began in 2004 but which was only carried out in 2012. The verdict does, however, raise questions for the security services. On Monday night it was claimed that Scotland Yard and MI5 ignored warnings that Hamza was establishing an international hub of terrorism in London as long ago as 1999.
Reda Hassaine, an Algerian paid by MI5 to spy inside the Finsbury Park mosque said the mosque was in 1999 an “al-Qaeda guesthouse in London” from where Hamza radicalised young men and sent them all over the world to carry out jihad. He warned his handlers but they refused to take action, he claims.
Speaking from Algeria, where he still lives in fear of retribution from al-Qaeda years after his role was exposed, Mr Hassaine said: “He was emboldened and to my ever-growing frustration the British authorities were taking little notice of my warnings. The security services seemed incapable of putting it in its proper al-Qaeda context.
“They continued to view it as a little local skirmish by a clown,” he said.
Born Mustafa Kamel Mustafa in Alexandria, Egypt, on 15 April 1958, Abu Hamza was the son of a naval officer and a primary school headmistress. He initially studied civil engineering before leaving for England in 1979.
In London, one of his first jobs was as a nightclub bouncer. He married a British woman who he says encouraged him to embrace Islam.
"I took time off from the clubs and I enjoyed it," he said at his trial.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Hamza supported the struggle in Afghanistan against the Soviets before he travelled to Bosnia to support Muslims against Christian Serbs during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
In 1997 he joined the Finsbury Park mosque.
Hamza built a reputation as one of Britain’s most prominent radical imams at the Finsbury Park mosque. Prosecutors told the jury that he used the mosque as the base of operations for a global terror network.
His fiery sermons drew high-profile militants such as Richard Reid, the Briton who tried to blow up a jetliner in 2001 using a bomb hidden in his shoe, and Zacarias Moussaoui, one of the 9/11 plotters. Both men are already serving life sentences in the “supermax” prison.
Hamza was convicted of three groups of charges. The jury agreed with prosecutors that he assisted rebels in Yemen who took 16 tourists hostage in 1998 in an incident that ended in the deaths of three Britons and an Australian.
He was found guilty of providing material support to al-Qaeda by sending cash to the group and dispatching a follower from Finsbury Park for jihad training in Afghanistan in 2001. He was also convicted of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon in 1999. He had denied all the charges.
Jeremy Schneider, a lawyer for Abu Hamza, told jurors in closing arguments that the government was attempting to convict his client for his speeches.
“He’s guilty of being self-important. He’s guilty of playing both sides in difficult religious conflicts around the world,” Schneider said. “His words were taken out of context. This case is about what he did, not what he said in the 1990s.”
The judge Katherine Forrest refused to allow the defence to bring before the jury their claim that Hamza was secretly working with MI5 and Scotland Yard as an intermediary to calm tensions in the Islamic community in Britain.
Although lead defence lawyer Joshua Dratel declined to discuss the MI5 claims after the verdict as the judge’s ruling is likely to be the subject of an appeal, he said that Hamza believed that he was subject of a “bait and switch” by the British authorities – implying that the cleric believed the Government had changed its approach to him.
“Everyone knew exactly what he was doing,” said Mr Dratel. “He was an open book but when he came out against the Iraq war, they changed dramatically.
“He was allowed to do what he was doing but then things changed. There was a bait and switch by the UK in terms of his relationship with the authorities there, to the extent that they were doing the bidding of the US government.”
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