BILE-spewing al-Qaeda lieutenant Abu Qatada was last night living in the lap of luxury – paid for by the country he HATES. The Sun Newspaper. 6/19/08.British taxpayers face a £1million-a-year bill to keep the hate preacher under “house arrest” after he was freed from jail. He has the run of a sprawling Edwardian house in a leafy West London road while Home Secretary Jacqui Smith battles to get him booted out of the country.
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Properties there sell for a whopping £600,000. Meanwhile the sponging fanatic is raking in benefits of £1,000 a month – and for two hours a day can roam the streets wearing an electronic tag. Jubilant Qatada, 48 – long branded Osama bin Laden’s No 2 in Europe – had been held in jail under anti-terror laws.
Spewing hate ...Qatada on video, but he walked free on Tuesday thanks to the Appeal Court, it backed a claim by the Jordanian-born extremist that deporting him to his homeland – where he was convicted in his absence of terror offences – breached his human rights. The Home Secretary – furious that the fanatic was also granted bail – is to appeal to the Lords to overturn the decision. Qatada has been warned he WILL go back to jail if he contacts al-Qaeda boss Bin Laden.
Another bail condition is that he stays away from fellow hate preacher Abu Hamza, 50 – who IS in jail for inciting murder. A recording of a rabble-rousing meeting in 2001 – the year of 9/11 – shows him in action with Hamza. Also on the bill at an unnamed mosque was third hatemonger Abu Izzadeen, 32 – currently locked up for inciting terror and fund-raising for jihad. Firebrand Omar Bakri – now exiled in Lebanon – and Saudi extremist Dr Mohammed al-Masari complete the “dream team”.
His terror credentials were reinforced by Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon who named him “spiritual head of the Mujahideen in Europe”. Shoe bomber Richard Reid and would-be 9/11 hijacker Zacharias Moussaoui were influenced by his rantings.
Qatada’s neighbours reacted with fury to the news that he is in their street. One, a Muslim, said: “It’s terrible. This man shames Islam. I’m worried terrorists will come here and make contact with him.” Another said: “What about MY human rights?”
