British Court Rules Al-Qaeda "Preacher" Can Be Deported
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_radical_preacherHere we see the sheik-owned Yahoo News service calling a Jordanian Wahhabiist mullah who personally worked for Osama bin Laden a "preacher", thereby implying that he is Christian! Notice that they don't even call him a terrorist--but that every single pro-life, anti-homosexuality Christian pastor who dares speak his mind is automatically labeled an "abortion clinic bomber".
UK court: Radical preacher can be deported from UK
BY DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer
LONDON – An extremist Muslim preacher once called a key operative for Osama bin Laden in Europe can be deported to Jordan despite fears he could face torture there, Britain's highest court ruled on Wednesday.
Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-Jordanian, arrived in Britain in 1993. He and his family were given residency rights in Britain but in 2002 he was jailed and held for three years after British authorities accused him of advising militants and raising money for terror attacks. In 2005, he was released but re-arrested pending his deportation to Jordan where, in his absence, he had been sentenced to life for conspiracy to commit terrorist activities.
Britain's lower courts said he couldn't be deported because of his fears he would likely be tortured but the Law Lords ruled there was no proof of a real risk to Qatada.
"Most people in Britain, I suspect, would be astonished at the amount of care, time and trouble that has been devoted to the question whether it will be safe for the aliens to be returned to their own countries," said Lord David Hope.
Qatada's actual deportation won't take place until the European Court of Human Rights hears an expected appeal, Britain's Home Office said.
"I am keen to deport this dangerous individual as soon as I can," said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Smith has argued that Britain has secured guarantees from Jordan and other countries, such as Algeria, that they won't torture deportees.
The Law Lords also ruled two Algerian men could be deported despite torture fears.
The Algerian men have never been named by British authorities and are referred to only as "RB" and "U."
"U" is accused by Britain of helping to run terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, of having direct links to bin Laden and of involvement in a planned attack on Los Angeles airport. "RB" is suspected by Britain of having links to Algerian terrorists, according to the Law Lords.
Tom Porteous, London director of Human Rights Watch, said the ruling amounted to the blanket authorization for Britain to deport suspects "at risk of torture on the basis of flimsy and unenforceable agreements that aren't legally binding."
In Jordan, State Minister for Information Nasser Judeh said he expected Qatada to appeal.
"If he doesn't, he will be back and Jordanian law will apply," Judeh said.
A Spanish judge once described Qatada — whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman — as bin Laden's "spiritual ambassador in Europe," and Britain says he has ties to al-Qaida, Egypt's Islamic Jihad and other terror groups. Officials also claim he had links to shoe bomber Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, who was convicted for his role in the Sept. 11 attacks.
"At a time when the Obama administration is cleaning house and renouncing torture, today's ruling shows the U.K. still clinging to paper promises from torturers," said Eric Metcalfe, director of human rights at the civil liberties group Justice.
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Associated Press Writer Jennifer Quinn in London and Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this report.
It is obvious that these disseminators of Muslim Nazi propaganda would have worked for Joseph Goebbels had they been alive in the 1940s. Yimach schmam to these terror mouthpieces at Yahoo and the AP.
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