Christmas came in extravagant fashion to the Muslim desert emirateofAbu Dhabi as a glitzyhotel unveiled a bejewelled Christmastreevaluedat more than 11 million dollarsonWednesday.
Last year, he gave Abdul Monim Abu Zant, a radical Muslim preacher from Amman who calls for an Islamist state in Jordan, his own half-hour programme on Iraqi state-controlled television.
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.