Abu Qatada was not enough. "Second al-Qaeda leader to be freed in Britain," from the Times, June 28 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
Secret negotiations have taken place to arrange the release from a British jail of one of al-Qaeda’s most important operatives in Europe, The Times has learnt.The prisoner, who can be identified only as U, is expected to be released from the high-security wing at Long Lartin jail next week.
Appeal Court judges ruled in April that the man, a 45-year-old Algerian veteran of al-Qaeda’s Afghan training camps, should be freed on bail. But discussions between security agencies and U’s lawyers became deadlocked over the conditions restricting his movements and whom he can meet when he leaves prison.
The authorities are understood to have sought bail terms more stringent than the 22-hour curfew imposed on the radical cleric Abu Qatada when he was freed last week. These conditions would require U to spend all his time indoors.
Security agencies blocked requests for U to live in London claiming that he has extensive contacts among extremist Islamist groups there. They also objected to an address in Brighton. U will be required to wear an electronic tag, subjected to round-the-clock monitoring and forbidden to use the internet or a mobile phone.
When the agreement is finalised the details will be passed to a judge who can release U from the prison in Worcestershire without any further court hearing. The Home Office refused to comment on the situation beyond saying it was seeking “the strictest bail conditions” possible.
While Abu Qatada is a preacher whose role in the al-Qaeda network is to justify and encourage jihad, U is alleged to be a terrorist leader who recruited, trained and facilitated operations. Members of his group, which was formed with the personal approval of Osama bin Laden, have been convicted in the US of a plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport in December 1999 and, in Germany, of a plan to bomb the Strasbourg Christmas market a year later....
Our appeal court judges will be the death of us. It is time a distinction was made between common criminals and terrorists. Terrorists aren't common criminals. they are waging a war against Western civilization, and it is time to make a distinction between them and say, a common thief. But then these batty judges have no knowledge of the Koran Sira and hadith and therefore no inkling as to what drives on these Jihadists. And as for the 'strictest bail conditions possible', you're having a laugh. These don't respect bail conditions, and haven't enough of them already jumped bail and left the country within 24 hours of release, to plan, promote and carry out terrorist atrocities worldwide? But these senile old judges live in their ivory towers, completely detached from the real world.
Its the same in every western country im amazed how dumb we truly are spirit god help our kids.
Spirit Of 1683
They are more like the British Generals in World War 1 who moved pins around maps and kept in mind the "greater picture". To them millions of less intelligent men drowning in mud were just an unfortunate detail.
BTW the muslim law firm keeping Abu Qatada in the country are reported to have had £3.5 millions ($6 million) in fees from the British taxpayer for this and similar cases.
The authorities are understood to have sought bail terms more stringent than the 22-hour curfew imposed on the radical cleric Abu Qatada when he was freed last week. These conditions would require U to spend all his time indoors.
Now I might be stupid, but doesn't keeping him in PRISON satisfy these conditions perfectly, so what the F**k are the idiots running my country up too? I have my suspicions.
I hope and expect that dangerous enemy combatants held by the U.S. will remain in confinement even after Boumedienne and the eventual closing of Gitmo. We deserve nothing less.
When do you think we will have to attack al-Britain?
Good grief. If these terrorists jump bail, and/or cause harm to anyone, even if by remote control, the authorities who released them should be arrested.
Abu Doha?
From whom Ahmed Ressam (the LAX millenium bomber)took orders.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/153
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Doha
*From Wikipedia:
Amar Makhlulif alias Abu Doha (Arabic: ابو ضحى) is an Algerian alleged to be member of the al-Qaeda and GSPC terrorist networks. He was arrested at Heathrow in February of 2001 while attempting to travel to Jeddah on a forged passport.[1][2]
*From the article:
In February 2001, several months after the Strasbourg bomb plot was foiled, U was arrested at Heathrow airport as he tried to board a flight to Saudi Arabia with fake passports.
Why don't they install him in a suite at some luxury hotel or the Queen's palace while they are at it too?
Why bother arresting any terrorist at Heathrow?
Just give them some milk and cookies and send them on their way...
They have to free up prison space so they can house infants convicted of racism.
What's the betting line on how long before he escapes bail while attending a mosque?
Just for comparison's sake, I wonder how many suspected IRA volunteers were granted bail from Long Kesh at the height of "The Troubles?"
Comparisons of this sort are difficult to make sense of, but surely aren't the global aspirations of Islam even more threatening to the British interests than the nationalist dreams of the IRA? So my question is: Are the British authorities going easier on the Islamic terrorists than on the IRA? And if so, WHY?
Just hope that British troops in Afghanistan aren't the ones that end up capturing Osama or Ayman, or else one would be looking at a potential war between the I.K. and the U.S. Of course, given the way the US is now busily according citizen rights to illegal combatants, maybe even that won't come to pass.
Beagle:
They have to free up prison space so they can house infants convicted of racism.
... and the elderly who don't pay their council tax