Posted on 07/10/2008 2:04:49 AM PDT by Coffee200am
The picture is an affront to all victims of terrorism and their families.
Abu Qatada, Al Qaeda's ambassador in Europe, strolls along a busy London street fondling his prayer beads.
This is the first photograph of the greying 47-year-old - said to be one of the world's most dangerous terrorist suspects - since he was released on bail from a high-security prison after the courts ordered that he could not be sent home to Jordan because his human rights would have been breached.
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Out on bail: Prayer beads in hand, Al Qaeda's ambassador in Europe takes a stroll to the shops near his home
It was taken on July 7, hours after the families and friends of the 52 innocent people killed in the London transport suicide bombings three years ago remembered their loved ones at a memorial service.
The radical cleric was freed three weeks ago when a judge ruled that there were no grounds to detain him after previous attempts to deport him to Jordan, where he was convicted of terror attacks and bomb plots, were defeated in the courts.
Described by another judge as 'a truly dangerous individual', he remains an iconic figure for many supporters of jihad.
Lawyers successfully argued in the Court of Appeal that Qatada could stay because evidence used against him in any prosecution in Jordan might have been obtained by torture - a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The fanatical preacher, who was 20 stone but slimmed down on prison food, was pictured on a shopping trip near the £800,000 home he shares with his wife and children.
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Such a pity that this jackass couldn’t just...have an “accident.”
A poison dart to the neck from some of Britain’s African immigrants would be welcomed...(hint)
Bin Laden is probably hiding out in London with him too. The British are very accomodating hosts.
“Exact details of the location where the Qatada family are living on benefits of an estimated £50,000 a year are protected by court orders”
0_O Welfare...he is on...Welfare
This shows we are hard at work tracking terrorists. AQ is being defeated. Iran and Syria have turned OPEC into a not-for-profit enterprise. We are safer now than ever before. Any more kool aid you want me to drink _______ ?
We will go after terrorists wherever they hide.
I hope that means we will soon see a predator air strike in the UK.
Butt ugly is still butt ugly, the world around.
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