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| Abu Qatada's Family Plans to Move to Jordan |
| 2013-07-10 |
| [An Nahar] The wife and children of Islamist holy man Abu Qatada, who faces trial on terror charges in Jordan following his deportation from Britannia, are planning to move to Amman from London, a family friend said on Tuesday. "Abu Qatada's wife and five children want to leave Britannia and come to Jordan. They are currently preparing for that," the family friend told Agence La Belle France Presse, asking not to be named. Military prosecutors on Sunday charged Abu Qatada, 53, with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts," just hours after his deportation from Britannia. He pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges. His lawyer Taysir Diab told AFP the military state security court would on Wednesday make its decision on a bail application. "He is in good condition and is receiving good treatment. His mother and other members of his family here are visiting him in prison," Diab said. Abu Qatada has been remanded for 15 days in the Muwaqqar prison, a maximum security facility built in 2007 that houses 1,100 inmates, most of them Islamists convicted of terrorism offences. He was condemned to death in absentia in 1999 for conspiracy to carry out terror attacks, including on the American school in Amman, but the sentence was immediately commuted to life imprisonment with hard labor. In 2000, he was sentenced in his absence to 15 years for plotting to carry out terror attacks on tourists in Jordan during millennium celebrations. Jordanian law gives him the right to a retrial with him present in the dock. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 No, I'm betting that the welfare payments from the UK will continue. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-07-10 15:41 |
| #3 Pappy, Don't take that bet, remember you're betting Obama will be reasonable, it's against his nature. (Greed) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-07-10 14:28 |
| #2 Wanna take odds on that? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-07-10 12:55 |
| #1 I hope we dont still have to pay for these parasites once in Jordan |
| Posted by: Paul D 2013-07-10 05:20 |