(Naharnet) - Jordan has given assurances to Britannia that Islamist holy man Abu Qatada, once dubbed an aide to the late Osama bin Laden... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing...
, will get a "fair" trial if London extradites him to the kingdom, a government official said on Wednesday.
"Jordan has reassured British Home Office Minister James Brokenshire that it is committed to protecting the legal rights of Jordanian citizen Abu Qatada," the official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"If Britannia extradites Abu Qatada to Jordan, he will receive a fair and transparent trial."
Brokenshire was meeting on Wednesday with Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh following talks Tuesday with Legislative Affairs Minister Ayman Odeh to "discuss the possibility of extraditing Abu Qatada," the official added.
The British minister flew to Amman after Prime Minister
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not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
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spoke with Jordan's King Abdullah II last week about finding an "effective solution" to the case.
One of Abu Qatada's brothers told AFP that the Islamist holy man had asked his family "to avoid giving statements in order not to affect the procedures."
Britannia has been trying to extradite Abu Qatada to Jordan for the past six years, claiming he is a serious risk to national security, but its efforts have been thwarted on human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
grounds.
Abu Qatada, 51, was released from a British prison on Monday on extremely tight bail conditions after spending most of the last six years in jail without charge during London's bid to deport him.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled last month that Britannia cannot deport the Jordanian to his homeland because evidence used against him in any trial there may have been obtained through torture.
Abu Qatada, once labeled late al-Qaeda chief bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe by a Spanish judge, was convicted in Jordan in his absence of involvement in terror attacks in 1998.