An extremist Muslim cleric regarded as Osama bin Laden’s “spiritual ambassador in Europe” must be released on bail, a judge ruled yesterday.
Abu Qatada, 48, who won his legal fight against deportation to Jordan last month, will be freed from prison under strict bail conditions, amounting to 22-hour house arrest, despite being deemed a threat to national security. The cleric applied to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) for bail on the ground that it was inhumane to detain him indefinitely if there was no prospect of his being deported.
The order by Mr Justice Mitting to release him is the latest in a series of judicial decisions that undermine the Government’s stance on terrorism. In the past year, the courts have in effect rewritten sections of terrorism legislation and ruled that financial sanctions on terrorist suspects were absurd and unlawful.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3896879.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164
ADDING 1 link to your post no. 301, Oorang.
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stepping back in time...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018378.php
October 6, 2007
“”I am astonished by President Bush when he claims there is nothing in the Koran that justifies jihad violence in the name of Islam””
SNIPPET: “It’s an old quote, but worth revisiting. All right, which one of you “Islamophobes” said it?”
SNIPPET: “Very well. If none of you mugs are going to fess up, who did say this? What’s that? It was Abu Qatada, a Muslim cleric linked to Al-Qaeda? How astonishing! Who would have thought that Al-Qaeda had been infiltrated by Islamophobes!”