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Abu Qatada deported

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Bags Sun 07-Jul-13 08:18:43

This is what Fraser Nelson says in his Spectator blog:

"The Home Office has released pictures and video footage of Abu Qatada being escorted to his Jordan-bound aircraft where he is to stand trial. This is a pretty serious accomplishment for Theresa May: several, lesser Home Secretaries have placed Qatada in the catapult but he has always wriggled free. Booting him out ought to be easy: he is an al-Qaeda preacher and  a Jordanian national who came to the UK illegally in 1993 on a forged United Arab Emirates passport. But May has succeeded where here predecessors failed. As a great lady once said: if you want something said, ask a man . If you want something done, ask a woman."

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Bags Mon 08-Jul-13 08:53:11

I think a lot of people believe that.

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Bags Mon 08-Jul-13 08:54:56

About why we went to war in 1939, I mean.

Blair isn't the first politician to distort stuff. I'm not defending him, but his behaviour was hardly unusual for a politician.

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absent Mon 08-Jul-13 08:58:04

True Bags, politicians distorting the truth is hardly headline material. That a lot of people mistakenly believe that Britain went to war in 1939 to save the Jews when, in fact, it was a deeply anti-Semitic society, is sad. However, most of them were not in any position to decide to invade another country on very dodgy evidence, to say the least, some decades later.

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sunseeker Mon 08-Jul-13 14:16:00

In the case of Qatada, what would happen if Jordan went back on its word and used evidence obtained through torture in his trial - would Britain have to step in or can we now wash our hands of him. I just wish his family would take advantage of their right to a family life and join him.

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numberplease Mon 08-Jul-13 16:57:34

If he is found innocent in Jordan, will he be able to come back here?

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