Abu Qatada Pleads 'Not Guilty' to Jordan Terror Charges
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Islamist cleric Abu Qatada pleaded not guilty on Sunday to terror charges pressed by Jordanian military prosecutors just hours after his deportation from Britain, his lawyer said.
Reporters were not allowed into the courtroom to hear the charges being read out despite a pledge by Information Minister Mohammad Momani of "transparency" in Jordan's handling of Abu Qatada's retrial on charges that already earned him a life sentence in his absence.
"State security court prosecutors charged Abu Qatada with conspiracy to carry our terrorist acts," a judicial official told Agence France Presse.
"He was remanded in judicial custody for 15 days in the Muwaqqar prison," in eastern Jordan, the official added without elaborating.
But Abu Qatada's lawyer Taysir Diab said he would make a bail application on Monday in the light of the not guilty plea.
"Abu Qatada pleaded not guilty. I will appeal tomorrow to the court to release him on bail," Diab told AFP.
Jordanian law gives Abu Qatada the right to a retrial with him present in the dock following his deportation from Britain earlier on Sunday which ended a decade-long legal battle.
Abu Qatada was condemned to death in absentia in 1999 for conspiracy to carry out terror attacks, including on the American school in Amman, but the sentence was immediately commuted to life imprisonment with hard labor.
In 2000, he was sentenced in his absence to 15 years for plotting to carry out terror attacks on tourists in Jordan during millennium celebrations.
07 July 2013, 14:58
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Good riddance , say NO to Islamist Salafists /Wahabists .. Enough is enough from you backwards odd cult. !!!! No more Fanatics , just live in peace & harmony & leave the rest up to our creator to be the Judge & Jury , not you bunch of weird looking psychopaths !
07 July 2013, 16:03
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Say no to shiite fanatics as well. Hezballah and their likes are from satan as well. Besides, why do you think this abu qatada was brought to jordan right now? You dont see any coincidence? All you are good at is saying wahhabi this and wahhabi that, you cant see whats going on because you are blinded by hate. May God save the people from what evil minds are plotting. I also dont see why you insult their appearences as if shiite clerics look any better? Or eastern priests for that matter?
07 July 2013, 16:55
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Most of the brutality, destruction, killings and killings of innocent children, women and elderly, wars, plundering of others resources, kidnapping and making humans slaves, slaughtering entire populations, raping women on a huge scale, etc. etc. is done by christians! Read the European history and their expansion out of Europe!
07 July 2013, 16:56
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Most of the brutality, destruction, killings and killings of innocent children, women and elderly, wars, plundering of others resources, kidnapping and making humans slaves, slaughtering entire populations, raping women on a huge scale, etc. etc. is done by christians! Read the European history and their expansion out of Europe!
07 July 2013, 18:27
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Tazafresh
I wonder how you came up with your post name ? Were you inspired by the Cannibal that cut up the dead soldier from the throat down then placed his hands into his chest ripping out his organs & then eating his heart ? He was just killed a moment ago before he committed the ultimate sin in front of a camera to post it on YouTube for the whole world to see? The poor dead human being was " taza & fresh " ! Bloody Salafist / Wahabists Animal ! When a fanatical Imam calls for Jihad for you idiots to go & blow yourself up don't you end up killing innocent people even if it means killing children ? All of the suicides in all of the Western world are committed by your cult not by a Shia at all, and as far as for the eastern priests they do not call for such atrocity as matter of fact they are at the receiving end by a Salafist / Wahibist of their heads been cut off . Now tell me who is blind ? Isn't you !
08 July 2013, 06:04
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the guy who pretended to eat the piece of lung is not salafi.
i don't know what a wahabist is. AL WAHAB is one of allahs attributes.
the syrian army and the shabiha have done alot worse than the so called cannibalism scene.
that preist that got beheaded was a government puppet who was spreading poison amongst the people with his tongue.
how many people did he have arrested?
just because hes christian do you think his actions will be forgiven?
and were born to be fuel for the hell fire.
08 July 2013, 11:20
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poor english policeman... he must think what brought me all of a suddedn to medieval ages ... funny!
