Posted on 02/07/2005 12:15:42 PM PST by FreedomNeocon
Britain's release of insurgent scares Algerians, MI5 agent
Monday, February 7, 2005
Britain's plans to release a leading Islamic insurgent with ties to Al Qaida after a court ruled anti-terror laws violated human rights.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453408.311111111.html
Algerian officials said the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to free Abu Qatada after nearly four years in prison.
Abu Qatada is regarded as being aligned with Al Qaida. Officials said Abu Qatada was suspected of being Osama Bin Laden's envoy in Britain during the 1990s.
The planned release of Abu Qatada has alarmed Algerians in Britain as well as in Europe. This has included Reda Hassaine, cited as an MI5 agent who infiltrated Abu Qatada's group in the late 1990s, Middle East Newsline reported.
"The decision to let him out was like a death sentence on me," Hassaine told the London-based Evening Standard. "Qatada has sworn that he will have me killed, and now he has the freedom to do it."
Abu Qatada has been described as the spiritual adviser to the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, the leading insurgency organization in Algeria in the 1990s.
Abu Qatada has been approved for release as part of the response to a court's ruling against anti-terrorism laws. The court ruled that Britain's anti-terrorism laws violated human rights standards and the government plans to release suspected insurgents as a result.
Abu Qatada, 44, was arrested after the Al Qaida suicide strikes on the United States in September 2001. He has been wanted in Jordan in connection with a series of bombings. So far, Britain has refused to extradite Abu Qatada because of the prospect that he would be executed in the Hashemite kingdom.
Abu Qatada, a Palestinian, arrived in Britain on a forged passport in 1993 and claimed political asylum for his family. The following year, British authorities allowed him to stay and he was provided with a house and benefits.
"He sent hundreds, possibly even thousands, to the training camps in Afghanistan," Hassaine, a former journalist, said. "People were mesmerised by him. When you left his meetings you felt you could pick up a gun and kill, kill, kill."
Been re-reading my Ian Fleming library lately... '-}
Britain is insane, and will deserve the coming Shar'ia takeover.
If you read any serious history of the British isles, you will find out that England has a LONG history of tolerating (and perpetrating) all kinds of mayhem on its citizens. It seems that any serious attempt to protect their citizens was only seriously pursued from the mid-19th until the mid- to late-20th century. Before and after that - the policy seems to be to hide behind locked doors while the criminals run wild!
Well isn't that special.
Hopefully he'll end up under a bus.
The insanity of it all is just too much.
A terrorist, whos goal has been to destory libery and/or freedom, known to be CLOSE with Bin Laden, KNOWN to be a HUGE recruiter for Afganistan (as late as sept 2001), sentanced to death in Jordan (for bombings).
He uses a FAKE passport to gain ILLEGAL ENTRY to Britain.
After sneaking in he uses' political assylum' laws to prevent his deportation and to save his family.
He shadily uses Britian's laws about not extraditing people to nations that use the Death Penalty to stay 'safe' from other Nations that want to convict (exploiting the very thing he fights against)
Furthermnore, British taxpayers PAY for his housing and food, and everything else for 4 years as he lives under 'house arrest' with his family.
Now he is going to be 'released' because he was so abused and his 'human rights' were violated, according to British law.
UN-BE-LIEVEALBE!
"So far, Britain has refused to extradite Abu Qatada because of the prospect that he would be executed in the Hashemite kingdom." HUH?
The death penalty is a very good reason to extradite him (seeing Britain can't get the job done). It is completely insane that they would NOT want to see this terrorist executed.
Grill them then kill them, but set them free?
Hopefully this MI5 agent won't "disapper", but if he does, gotta' link keep this story in mind
WILL DO. OPSEC saves lives. Looks like the Brits have no regard for their agents and the GATE if thsi is what their SOP is or will be... If they keep this crap up and the WOT gets worse (nuclear 9-11s) AND if the Brits keep caving in like this, I suspect that we may have to look at potential plans for serious regime change in a country that may resemble Britain. (purely hypothetically speaking; any similarity to entities real or imagined is purely coincidental)
One sad BUMP.
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