tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post2251366817110351347..comments2024-03-28T09:08:50.733+00:00Comments on Law and Lawyers: Mohammed Othman (Abu Qatada)ObiterJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544226917595022902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-36710663206253502362012-11-13T14:23:26.583+00:002012-11-13T14:23:26.583+00:00Daniel McGrory, the Times journalist (now deceased...Daniel McGrory, the Times journalist (now deceased) stated in an <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/article1969239.ece" rel="nofollow">article</a> in March 2004, that Qatada was an agent working for Mi5. I suspect that this is why he has never been charged with any offence:<br /><br /><b>Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as MI5 double agent - War on Terror</b><br />Times, The (London, England) - Thursday, March 25, 2004 <br />Author: Daniel McGrory and Richard Ford <br /><br />Allies say their warnings were ignored, write Daniel McGrory and Richard Ford <br /><br />One of al-Qaeda's most dangerous figures has been revealed as a double agent working for MI5, raising criticism from European governments, which repeatedly called for his arrest. <br /><br />Britain ignored warnings -which began before the September 11 attacks -from half a dozen friendly governments about Abu Qatada's links with terrorist groups and refused to arrest him. Intelligence chiefs hid from European allies their intention to use the cleric as a key informer against Islamic militants in Britain. <br /><br />Abu Qatada boasted to MI5 that he could prevent terrorist attacks and offered to expose dangerous extremists, while all along he was setting up a haven for his terror organisation in Britain. <br /><br />Among the scores of young militants who came to visit him in London was the chief suspect in the Madrid train bombings. His followers also included people who wanted to be suicide bombers for al-Qaeda, such as Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. <br /><br />A special tribunal that has investigated his operations in Britain described him as "a truly dangerous individual". A ruling by the Special Immigrations Appeals Commission revealed yesterday that there was evidence to show that Abu Qatada "has been concerned in the instigation of acts of international terrorism". <br /><br /><br />....<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com