Abu Qatada 's political views were formed before he entered politics . He ran a magazine , Al Ansar , supporting jihadists in Britain . Writing in The New Yorker in 2006 , Lawrence Wright quotes a Saudi journalist who had met Abu Qatada in the early 1990s . A cassette of his sermons was found in a 9/11 survivor 's apartment in London .
Abu Qatada 's political views were formed before he entered politics . He ran a magazine , Al Ansar , supporting jihadists in Britain . A cassette of his sermons was found in a 9/11 survivor 's apartment in London .