http://www.jordantimes.com/sun/homenews/homenews7.htm
Jordan will ask Britain to extradite militant cleric
AMMAN (AP) - Jordan will ask Britain next week to extradite the radical
Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who has twice been convicted in absentia of plotting
terror attacks in the Kingdom, Interior Minister Awni Yarvas told the
Associated Press on Friday.
Abu Qatada, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Othman Abu Omar, has been
described the "spiritual ambassador in Europe" of Al Qaeda leader Osama Ben
Laden.
He lives in Britain where he was among 10 foreigners that police arrested
Thursday on suspicion of posing a threat to national security.
The detentions came days after British Prime Minister Tony Blair
announced proposals to deport Islamic extremists in the wake of the July 7
suicide bombings in London that killed 56 people.
"We will contact the British government after the weekend to seek his
extradition to Jordan," Yarvas said. The two countries signed an extradition
agreement earlier this week.
Yarvas said he could not predict when Abu Qatada would be sent back to
Jordan.
"It all depends on the procedures here and in the United Kingdom," Yarvas
said. He said British courts may have to endorse a government deportation
order.
When he arrives in Jordan, Abu Qatada would be "retried under a Jordanian
law which allows persons convicted and sentenced in absentia the right to
retrial once captured," Yarvas added.
Born in the West Bank town of Bethlehem in 1960, Abu Qatada was convicted
in absentia in Jordan in 2000 on charges of conspiring to attack US and Israeli
tourists during the Kingdom's mellinnium celebrations. The indictment said his
role was primairly to finance the terror group.
The State Security Court sentenced him to 15 years in jail. In its
judgement, the court said it had no evidence that Abu Qatada's group had links
to Al Qaeda.
But a Spanish judge has described Abu Qatada as Ben Laden's "spiritual
ambassador in Europe."
The British believe that Abu Qatada inspired Mohammad Atta, the lead
hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The British
government says 18 videotapes of Abu Qatada's sermons were found in a Hamburg
flat used by Atta and two other Sept. 11 hijackers.
At the end of another trial in 1998, a Jordanian military court found Abu
Qatada and eight other militants guilty of terrorist conspiracy in the
detonation of bombs outside an Amman hotel, a school, and under the cars of a
former intelligence chief and a former interior minister. In that case, Abu
Qatada was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in jail.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
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