suspected terrorist, who is accused of serious crime in his home country of Jordan,” she told British lawmakers. “The government has been doing everything it can to get rid of Abu Qatada, and we will continue to do so.”
The British government will press for 모바일 야마토 게임 the “most restrictive” bail conditions possible for Abu Qatada, she added.
Abu Qatada remains “an enormous risk to national security,” government lawyer Robin Tam told Monday’s hearing.
Prosecutors in British and Spanish courts have previously described Abu Qatada as a senior al Qaeda figure in Europe who had close ties to the late Osama bin Laden.
British government lawyers have previously accused Abu Qatada of links with Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States over the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and with shoe bomber Richard Reid. Audio recordings of some of the cleric’s sermons were found in an apartment in Hamburg, Germany, used by some of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
Authorities first tried to deport Abu Qatada in 2001, then detained him in 2002 under anti-terrorism laws which at the time allowed suspected terrorists to be jailed without charge.
Though he was released in 2005 when the unpopular law was overturned, the cleric was kept under surveillance and arrested again within months to be held in custody pending his deportation to Jordan.
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