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Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza used the cover of religion to recruit and indoctrinate men, and to export violence and terror around the world, a New York jury heard on Thursday.

In his opening statement, assistant US attorney Edward Kim told a federal court in Manhattan that the former imam of the Finsbury Park mosque in north London used the place of worship as a base to send his global export of violence and terror.