UK forced to set bin Laden buddy free

Telegraph:

Abu Qatada, who last month defeated the Government’s efforts to deport him to Jordan on terror charges, will be subject to a 22-hour curfew when he is released from Long Lartin high-security prison.

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, said she was “extremely disappointed” at the decision and promised “all steps necessary to protect the public”.

Some of the bail money is thought to have been put up by Norman Kember, the Christian peace worker who was held hostage in Baghdad for four months from November 2005 by a group of insurgents. Qatada had made a video appeal for his release.

The bail decision by the Special Immigration Advisory Tribunal is a fresh blow to the Government’s anti-terror policies.

Last month, the Home Office was forced to abandon plans to deport 12 Libyan fanatics, leaving a memorandum of understanding with Libya, signed in October 2005, effectively in tatters.

The rulings mean that not a single international terrorist has been forcibly removed from this country. Nearly three years after the 7/7 attacks, the only Islamic extremists to depart are eight Algerians who left voluntarily.

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I am sure the terrorist appreciate the opportunities presented by the terrorist rights judiciary of the UK and the idiotic treaty they have with the EU which prohibits deportation that might result in discomfort to terrorist. Better to have mass murderers running free than send them where they might face punishment. Don't forget the Brits also have to pay him the equivalent of $2,000 a month in welfare, plus the cost of keeping him under surveillance. It is a place where common sense has escaped from the judiciary.