Christmas came in extravagant fashion to the Muslim desert emirateofAbu Dhabi as a glitzyhotel unveiled a bejewelled Christmastreevaluedat more than 11 million dollarsonWednesday.
The proceedings center on the alleged kidnapping of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, an Egyptian-born Muslim cleric also known as Abu Omar, in February 2003.
It was after meeting Abu Hamza, a radical Muslim cleric who is now serving a seven-year sentence for inciting murder and racial hatred, that Mr Barot converted to Islam, in 1991.