April 04, 2009
UK: AlQaeda Cleric Abu Qatada Sends Rallying Cry To Followers From His Maximum Security Jail Cell
Qatada has fought against deportation to Jordon and appears to have kept busy biding his time.:
From Weasel Zippers
The extremist cleric Abu Qatada has issued a 6,000-word rallying cry to his followers from inside one of Britain’s most secure prison units.This is nucking futz.The Palestinian preacher hails the “victory” of the Mujahidin and claims that his treatment has helped to radicalise a new generation of young British Muslims.
Despite demanding his freedom, he says that “the gift of prison” has helped him to lose more than 50lb (22kg) in weight.He even suggests that a vigorous exercise programme appears to have cured his diabetes and back trouble.
The cleric boasts of being told by Bilal Abdullah, the NHS doctor jailed for the car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow in 2007, that he was heavily influenced by the cleric’s taped sermons. He describes the bomber, who narrowly failed in his attempts to blow up a nightclub and airport terminal, as “truthfully a man from the men of Islam, in knowledge, action, steadfastness and manhood”
His communiqué was smuggled out of Long Lartin high-security jail, Worcestershire, and is circulating on jihadi websites and forums, where it is attracting widespread comment.
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February 19, 2009
British court rules Muslim cleric, Abu Qatada, can be deported
Abu Qatada can be deported but will he? Abu Qatada's lawyers said they will appeal the deportation order at the European Court of Human Rights. Considering the same court just awarded Abu Qatada around $5000 for wrongful detention after 9/11, what do you think Abu Qatada's chances of deportation are now?
From International Herald Tribune
LONDON: A Palestinian-born cleric described by British security officials as "a significant international terrorist" lost the latest round in a seven-year battle to remain in Britain as a refugee Wednesday when the highest court in Britain ruled that he could be deported to Jordan, where he was convicted in absentia in a terrorist bombing and a bomb plot in the late 1990s.After a five-judge panel of the Law Lords - judges in the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal - unanimously approved his deportation, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith immediately signed an order for the deportation of the 48-year-old Islamic preacher known as Abu Qatada, who is being held in a special unit for Muslim militants at the Longlartin jail about 100 miles, or 160 kilometers, west of London.
The cleric's lawyers said that they would appeal the decision to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, a step likely to halt any move to deport the cleric for weeks, and possibly months.
November 10, 2008
UK Re-Arrests Osama bin Laden's Right Hand Man
Abu Qatada, who is on the U.S. Treasury's list of designated terrorists, has been re-arrested in Britain.
Yeah, I know what you're thinking: re-arrested? WTF was he doing out in the first place? Blame the British equivalent of a left wing judge. He was on what we in the U.S. would call house arrest. That's right, Osama bin Laden's right hand man in the UK on house freaking arrest!
Abu Qatada, who has been holed up in a large house in a leafy Acton street since he was released from prison in June, was arrested by immigration officers on claims he was planning to flee the country.RELATED:Bail conditions placed on the 47-year-old, once described by a judge as Osama Bin-Laden's right-hand man in Europe, meant he had to spend at least 22-hours a day at the house, and was not allowed to meet with certain people.
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