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JORDAN’S PARLIAMENT HAS approved an agreement with Britain on the extradition of suspects wanted there, including radical cleric Abu Qatada, an MP said Wednesday.
“Parliament on Tuesday approved a treaty with Britain to help Jordan extradite suspects from Britain,” Khalil Attieh, the deputy house speaker, told AFP. “The agreement does not specifically mention Abu Qatada but it includes him and others.”
The accord needs King Abdullah II’s approval before it becomes a law.
For the past decade Abu Qatada has been in and out of British prisons as he fights successive government attempts to deport him to Jordan, where he has been convicted of terror charges in his absence.
But on May 10, the cleric vowed to return to Jordan voluntarily if its parliament ratifies a treaty barring the use of evidence obtained by torture.
A Spanish judge once branded Abu Qatada the right-hand man in Europe of Osama bin Laden, although Abu Qatada denies ever having met the late Al-Qaeda leader.
The 52-year-old cleric, who has been resident in Britain since claiming asylum in 1993, is likely to face a retrial if he is returned to Jordan.
On April 24, British Home Secretary Theresa May announced that London has signed a legal treaty with Amman giving guarantees that Abu Qatada would face a fair trial if deported.
“The agreement also includes a number of fair trial guarantees… I believe these guarantees will provide the courts with the assurance that Qatada will not face evidence that might have been obtained by torture in a retrial in Jordan,” she said.
May made the announcement a day after the Court of Appeal in London refused her permission to challenge its ruling that the radical preacher cannot be sent back to Jordan due to rights concerns.
Attieh did not say if the Jordanian parliament made amendments to the treaty before approval.
The agreement would also help London deport to Amman Walid Kurdi, a fugitive uncle of the king who was sentenced last week to 37.5 years in jail with hard labour and a massive fine on two charges of abuse of office, according to Attieh.
I hope abu q is tortured there
Lovely. Out ta f:;k ya scoundrel
Are you in England?
I am Bob. And paying taxes
Bye bye Abu.
Lets hope he go’s this time
What sort of extremist are they churning out these days ha? This chap is afraid he will be tortured is he, then he probably shouldn’t make speeches which include little beauties like:
Issuing a fatwa justifying the killing of anyone in Algeria who converted from Islam, including their wives and children.
In 1997, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, Abu Qatada called on Muslims to kill the wives and children of Egyptian police and army officers.
In October 1999, according to the British case against him, Abu Qatada made a speech in which, The Guardian reported, “he effectively issued a fatwa authorising the killing of Jews, including Jewish children”.
In 1999 Abu Qatada told his congregation at Finsbury Park Mosque that Americans should be attacked, wherever they were; that in his view they were no better than Jews; and that there was no difference between English people, Jews and Americans.
In another sermon he is said to have stated that it was not a sin for a Muslim to kill a non-believer for the sake of Islam.
Tough talk for a guy who wants to shy away from the threat of violence.
Lovely. Says it all about Islamists and Jihadists really.
Says it all about religion in general.
I would agree Alan. I am a Catholic. It’s bot the religion but those who hijack it to their own ends.
Bot = not
It is very unlikely that he will get a fair trial in Jordan that is now his problem, this little hate filled religious fanatic did everything in his power to cause as much trouble as he could for the British people. I wonder will the Jordanians put up with as much crap as the hated kafur.
It is about bloody time he was sent to Jordan, he has used and abused the legal system in England and cost the taxpayer a fortune. Good riddance to bad rubbish
It’s amazing what people can achieve when they do not have the burden of work to occupy their brains and muscle. We encourage people by rewarding them to be idle and to have more kids whenever they deceide and let the taxpayer pick up the pieces.
We have a lot in common with the UK !
Don’t you love western country’s that give asylum to these poor abused people. We welcome, feed, house them then they betrayed us with their Islamic extremism! Just like Ramsey Yousef the 1993 World Trade Center Bomber.
Make sure when he go’s, he takes his Family with him.
UK taxpayers paying for his Big house near me. He is Jordanian anyways
So just deport him to his home state
Liberalism gone mad. Should have been dumped back immediately.
We should be getting rid of a few people ourselves!!!!
Their leaders are afraid of torture and yet they send their young followers on suicide missions!!
About time too. Have you seen how long his beard is getting.
Lou – post of the week for me!!!!
He isn’t a terrorist, he is a very good religious person according to the Holy Quran! He is more welcome to Ireland, because we believe in multi-cultural and multi-relgious society.
I hope that’s a joke. We’ve enough raving headbangers in Ireland without importing Islamic fundamentalists loons!
One doesn’t import or export people. People migrate.
You’re either a troll or a complete imbecile
I can smell something….
I wish you’d migrate Petr
Interesting guest at the hotel California …..
Hold on! Important newsflash just in.. We’ve found a weapon of mass destruction at last.. theresa may the home secretary… the face on her would send the jihadists running back to their caves!
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