Abu Qatada back in the slammer

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Judges send Qatada back to jail


A radical preacher, who has been dubbed Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, has been returned to jail after judges agreed he might abscond.

Abu Qatada had been held on a 22-hour home curfew, after winning the latest stage of a battle against deportation.

Judges have agreed with ministers that he might flee - even though there is no evidence of such a plan at present.

The cleric was arrested at his home in London in November. The UK wants to return him to Jordan.

A panel of judges at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac), which acts as the UK's national security tribunal, heard last month that the 47-year-old Jordanian-Palestinian could be plotting to leave the UK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7759837.stm



Interesting that hapless MP Damian Green is the Tories' immigration spokesman....just as Abu Qatada has been waiting the Special Immigration Appeals Commission's adjudication viz deportation-related matters.