I don't know what your name is for it, but the smell is the same:
"Britain loses another round in long legal battle to deport radical Islamic preacher to Jordan" by Alan Cowell | New York Times, March 28, 2013
LONDON — A militant Islamic preacher known as Abu Qatada, wanted in Jordan on terrorism charges, won the latest legal battle to remain in Britain on Wednesday when senior appeal judges upheld a ruling that his human rights would be violated if he was sent to Jordan for trial.
The ruling was a humiliating defeat for British authorities in their long-standing effort to deport a preacher who has been described as a senior operative of Al Qaeda and as ‘‘a truly dangerous person.’’
The case has hinged on whether evidence to be used in a Jordanian courtroom was likely to have been obtained under torture.
Then that "evidence" is to be thrown out.
But, more broadly, the legal battles are seen as part of a long-running test of Britain’s balance between human rights and national security, pitting demands for his removal against judicial assessments, both in Britain and Europe, relating to human rights.
Can we stop with the stinking semantics?
One of the key rulings in the case came in January 2012, when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, decided that evidence against the preacher in the Jordan bombings ‘‘had been obtained by torturing one of his co-defendants.’’ Deporting him would ‘‘legitimize the torture of witnesses and suspects,’’ it said, and ‘‘result in a flagrant denial of justice.’’
Keep that lingering odor in mind, will ya'?
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And now Abu Qatada is headed back to Jordan:
"UK deports radical preacher to Jordan, ending legal saga; Treaty on rights concerns clears extradition path" by Jamal Halaby | Associated Press, July 08, 2013
AMMAN, Jordan — A radical Muslim preacher described as a key Al Qaeda operative in Europe rejected terrorism charges on Sunday that linked him to alleged plots targeting Americans and Israelis in Jordan, his lawyer said, hours after Britain deported him to bring an end to a decade-long legal saga over his extradition....
Abu Qatada arrived at Amman’s civilian airport early Sunday on board a British aircraft and was immediately whisked away by heavily armed antiterrorism police for questioning at a nearby courthouse. Police sealed off the area as the convoy drove against traffic to the court building, just across the street from the airport.
After nearly two hours of questioning, Jordanian prosecutors charged Abu Qatada with conspiring to carry out terror attacks in Jordan twice — once in 1999 for a foiled plot against the American school in Amman and another time in 2000 for allegedly targeting Israeli and American tourists and Western diplomats during new-year celebrations.
In both cases, Abu Qatada was convicted in absentia years ago and sentenced to life in prison. With his return, those sentences have been suspended and he will receive a new trial.
Abu Qatada’s lawyer, Tayseer Thiab, said his client ‘‘told military prosecutors that he is not guilty of terrorism and rejected the charges against him.’’
Jordanian authorities ordered Abu Qatada held for 15 days pending further questioning, according to one of the prosecutors. He said the cleric will be held at Muwaqar I, a prison in Amman’s southeastern industrial suburb of Sahab. The military district attorney banned the publication of the prosecutors’ names.
Thiab said he will try to free his client on bail Monday.
Outside the courthouse, Abu Qatada’s father, Mahmoud, told the Associated press that his ‘‘son is innocent and I hope the court will set him free.’’
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Abu Qatada, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, has been described in courts in Britain and Spain as a senior Al Qaeda figure in Europe who had close ties to the late Osama bin Laden.
Britain accused him 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.
Stall is starting to really stink!
Abu Qatada arrived in Britain on a forged passport in 1993 after fleeing a Jordanian government crackdown on militants. He was granted asylum a year later, but he eventually wore out his welcome because of his suspected militant activities, which allegedly included raising funds to finance terror plots in Jordan.
British authorities first tried to deport Abu Qatada in 2001, then detained him a year later under antiterrorism 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 close surveillance and detained in various ways.
He most recently was being held at London’s Belmarsh prison after breaching a bail condition in March that restricted the use of mobile phones and communication devices.
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"3 British men convicted in terror plot" by JILL LAWLESS | Associated Press, February 22, 2013
LONDON — They were very ordinary would-be terrorists, with big plans but bad luck.
On Thursday, a jury convicted three young British men of being ringleaders of an Al Qaeda-inspired plot to explode knapsack bombs in crowded parts of Birmingham, England’s second-largest city.
This was BEFORE the Boston Marathon bombings!
The men had pleaded not guilty, but were recorded discussing plans for attacks, but the men failed — thanks in part to official surveillance and their own incompetence....
It's the same comical script every time!
So which MI5 instigator set 'em up?
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"6 men plead guilty to terror charges in UK" by Cassandra Vinograd | Associated Press, May 01, 2013
LONDON — Six men pleaded guilty in Britain on Tuesday to planning a terrorist attack on a demonstration by a far-right group, which failed because the plotters arrived after the rally ended.
I always love reading a funny book sitting on the toilet.
The men were arrested in July in central England after a search of an impounded vehicle found hidden guns, a nail bomb, and other weapons, prompting police to trace and arrest the driver, the passenger, and the other suspects.
Uh-huh.
Jewel Uddin, Omar Mohammed Khan, Mohammed Hasseen, Anzal Hussain, Mohammed Saud, and Zohaib Ahmed — all from Birmingham in central England — were charged with preparing an act of terrorism.
They pleaded guilty by video link Tuesday at London’s Woolwich Crown Court. They are to be sentenced on June 6.
Prosecutors said the men were preparing to attack a June 30 march of the English Defense League, in Dewsbury, northern England. But the men, traveling in two cars, arrived after the rally had ended.
Uddin — who was already under surveillance by British authorities — tried to drive back toward Birmingham with Khan, but they were stopped by a traffic officer and their car was seized because it was not insured.
AGAIN!?!? So they KNEW WHAT WAS in the CAR!
WTF, some local traffic cop blow the plot up?
The car was impounded, and counterterrorism officers were called in after a search of the vehicle uncovered sawed-off shotguns, swords, knives, a nail bomb, and a partially assembled pipe bomb.
This was what we call a SET-UP. I don't what word you have for it in English.
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