Telegraph Profile: Abu Qatada, 'An al-Qa'eda lynchpin'
BritishJihad.com case summary on Abu Qatada
Radical cleric Abu Qatada (aka Omar Mohammed Othman)
Posted on 06/17/2008 3:47:24 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
Abu Qatada: Radical cleric to be released 'in next 24 hours'
Radical cleric Abu Qatada (aka Omar Mohammed Othman), described as "Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe," is to be released in the next 24 hours.
Qatada, who is accused of giving advice and support to terrorists including the leader of the September 11 hijackers, has been described in official documents as a "truly dangerous individual" who was "heavily involved, indeed at the centre of terrorist activities associated with al-Qa'eda."
He has been convicted twice in Jordan in his absence for conspiracy to carry out bomb attacks on two hotels in Amman in 1998, and providing finance and advice for a series of bomb attacks in Jordan planned to coincide with the Millennium.
It was those convictions which allowed him to argue in the Appeal Court he would not get a fair treatment in his home country.
With the prospect of extradition removed, the Ministry of Justice has been forced to release him by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission...MI5 believe that Qatada avoided being drawn into the al-Qa'eda structure in order to maintain his independence and continue his activities in Britain but he did have links to the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, whom he met in Afghanistan and who is now Bin Laden's number two.
The Special Immigration and Appeals Commission (SIAC) has described him as a "truly dangerous individual" who was "heavily involved, indeed at the centre of terrorist activities associated with al-Qa'eda."……(Telegraph)
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Telegraph Profile: Abu Qatada, 'An al-Qa'eda lynchpin'
BritishJihad.com case summary on Abu Qatada
Radical cleric Abu Qatada (aka Omar Mohammed Othman)
More pandering to Islamics and their radical terrorists???
sometimes you get what you ask for, and the brits are BEGGING for it... maybe this time they'll get it.
Why can’t the Brits just deport him?
Why can’t we have our own people there to snipe this guy once he walks out the door?
An excellent suggestion. Dead terrorists=Better World.
Exactly. Or at least taken somewhere (not gitmo) for a nice long chat.....
And the price of these microchips has been dropping fast:
Because according to the British government, protecting his human rights is more important than all those who are dead via the terrorism he was an accomplice too.
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