Notorious hate preacher Abu Qatada expected to walk free within the next few days.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....Europe-free-days.html

Thanks to the ECHR this piece of scum will be free to continue with his hate against Britain.

How much longer is our Government going to put it's citizens at risk by obeying everything Europe tells us to do?

Now is the time to test Strasbourg, and see what happens when we disobey them.

[jomifl]

If I was him I would feel safer in prison.

[Ankou]

he has been remanded in prison for 3 years, but never been charged with anything in the uk.....

was it not the coalition who pushed through a motion to reduce the holding time for suspects without trial? you'd think they'd be able to drum up some charge for him to face court wouldn't you.....

[douglas9401]

What about detaining him under the Mental Health Act for causing fear and alarm by holding frequent earnest conversations with imaginary friends who encourage holy war on the infidel?
Or being in possession of a very dodgy beard.

[Ankou]

"What about detaining him under the Mental Health Act for causing fear and alarm by holding frequent earnest conversations with imaginary friends who encourage holy war on the infidel?"

"'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq" george w bush (oct 2005)

lol. are you religious douglas ?

[douglas9401]

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition"

Not even a tiny wee bit Ankou, I just stand on the side trying to grasp exactly what it's all about treating none with the reverence they seem to think they deserve.

[rojash]

There is a very simple answer to this. Put him on trial.

We are constantly told of all the things that the UK government accuse him of, but he has been held without trial for six years. Why no trial?

[Gromit]

He has never stood trial in this country or convicted of an offence.

[d9f1c7]

why can't we just deport this pond life?

[rov1100]

The Americans with our help have been using drones to wipe out terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan but when it comes to those illegally living here we give them a slap on the wrist.

If its OK to kill terrorists in a foreign land why can't they do so here? Whats the difference?

[sp1814]

"If its OK to kill terrorists in a foreign land why can't they do so here? Whats the difference?"

Do you mean like hit squads?

With or without a trial?

Also - why hasn't Abu Qatada been tried? I don't understand what his legal position is...

[rov1100]

So its OK to dispense with the niceties when living abroad but take a completely different attitude when close to home. Even Pakistan and Afghanistan have law courts but we choose to ignore them.

[sp1814]

"So its OK to dispense with the niceties when living abroad"

No, I'd suggest, however, that you're not comparing like for like. Attacks on Al Queeda bases are a world away from British jurisprudence.

Unless...I've totally misunderstood the thrust of your argument, and you're suggesting that drone attacks are wrong?

[brionon]

How many times do you need to be Told ? It ain't Europe wot dunnit ? Simple enough for you ?

[Dodger666]

Perhaps the Jordanian "SAS" will abduct him and take him to Jordan to stand trial.

[jno]

all very well to call him a notorious hate preacher; but that's a crime and it seems they haven't actually got enough evidence to prove he is one, otherwise they'd have charged him. So perhaps he's, y'know, innocent, and it's all Daily Mail lies?

[TWR]

Nothing that a bullet won't cure, there is time yet.

[McMouse]

Treat him to a bungee jump from a helicopter over the North Sea and omit the mungee.

[anotheoldgit]

This hate preacher record, who incidentally entered Britain on a false passport.

/// As fears of a domestic terror threat grew after those attacks, he thwarted every attempt by the Government to detain and deport him; he went on the run to avoid being detained without trial or charged under new anti-terror laws. ///

/// After 10 months on the run he was discovered in a council house in south London, arrested and taken to Belmarsh high-security prison. ///

/// Qatada was released in March 2005 and put under a 22-hour home curfew designed to limit contact with other extremists. ///

/// He was rearrested months later but ministers were thwarted in their efforts to deport him because of fears he would be tortured if he returned to Jordan. ///

/// As the court battle continued, Qatada was released in June 2008 to live in his £800,000 council house in west London before being rearrested that November over fears he would breach his bail conditions.///

it is ironic that he was rearrested over fears he would breach his bail conditions, I wonder if he may get rearrested for the same fear?

In the meantime he can now relax with his wife and five kids, on benefits in a £800,000 house.

You couldn't make it up.