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Abu Qatada has been described as Osama bin Laden's "ambassador in Europe" and is wanted on terrorism charges in nine different countries.
The radical cleric had close links to both 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe bomber Richard Reid. Law Lords ruled in February that he could be deported back to his native Jordan.
Qatada was convicted, in his absence, of plotting a series of bomb attacks in the Jordanian capital, Amman, in 1998 and for his involvement with terrorists planning a series of explosions there on millennium night. The Law Lords ruling came after nearly four years of legal wranglings after the preacher was arrested shortly after the 7 July bombings.
Qatada was controversially released from custody last year to his west London home under a 22-hour home curfew after a court ruled it would breach his human rights to deport him.
However, he was re-arrested in November over fears he was planning to abscond. Qatada was granted asylum in the UK in 1993 after arriving on a forged passport.
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this nightmarish human right act is seriously ruining our country.
- Rrs, bury st edmunds
Using forged passports to gain Asylum, is nothing more than using fraud to gain an advantage by premeditated deception etc.
To commit a crime of any kind, should result in automatic deportation to from where, they came from.
Surely his true human rights are in Jordan; the land of his birth.
Why does a country like the UK; refuse to hand over convicted criminals with blood on their hands, to the justice of an established Country like Jordan; Jordan is hardly a terrorist State.
Had Qatada been deported long ago; then one more innocent prisoner, that had not broken any laws at all; would not have been murdered by the supporters of international terrorists like Qatada etc.
These religious killers are not to blame; they know no better than killing, even their own kind; the real blame is the West for trying to give justice, sanctuary, and human rights, to un-just and in-human people that violate their own countries laws as well.
If a criminal is wanted by another State; and we brag about International Law all the time; why does the UK still refuse to hand over criminals to the States that ask for them to be returned etc.
I think the UK government would be up in arms; if Jordan refused to send a convicted UK citizen, back to the UK to face justice etc.
- Mickyinlondon, london
Just why is he here?????
- Jeremy E, Home Counties
