London: British Home Secretary Theresa May was holding talks on Monday in Jordan aimed at overcoming a European ban on deporting a radical cleric to the Arab country. Britain wants to deport Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-Jordanian preacher described in both Spanish and British courts as a leading Al Qaida figure in Europe and a threat to national security. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in January that Abu Qatada cannot be sent back to Jordan, because of a risk that evidence obtained through torture would be used against him if he is put on trial there. He has previously been convicted in his absence in Jordan of terrorist offences related to two alleged bomb plots in 1999 and...
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