His mind is as twisted as his body.
Hook-handed Muslim hate-spewer Abu Hamza al-Masri counts some of the world’s most prolific terrorists as his buddies.
He’s raised money for al Qaeda and the Taliban. And his followers included convicted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe bomber Richard Reid.
Al-Masri, 54, is, as NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly once put it, “a free-lance consultant to terrorist groups worldwide.”
Born in Egypt to middle-class parents, al-Masri, whose real name is Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, honed his hatred after leaving home for London in his 20s, where he studied to become a civil engineer and worked as a nightclub bouncer.
After a failed marriage — he got a son and British citizenship out of the union — al-Masri began fighting for his causes.
He went to Afghanistan in the 1980s, fighting Soviet occupation.
In December 1998, al-Masri worked with Islamic radicals in taking 16 tourists hostage in Yemen, US officials charge.
In 1999, five members of al-Masri’s organization were convicted in Yemen of plotting to blow up the British consulate, a church and a hotel. Officials believed al-Masri orchestrated the attacks, but he was never charged.
That same year, US officials say he joined forces with US-born “violent jihad” advocate James Ujaama to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Ore.