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- Jordan removes last hurdle to cleric's extradition from UK
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan has removed the last hurdle preventing Britain from sending radical cleric Abu Qatada back home for trial by approving an extradition treaty satisfying British concerns about evidence used against him, officials said on Wednesday. The British government has for years been unable to deport Abu Qatada back to his native Jordan, where he is wanted on alleged terrorism ...
June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Jordan removes last hurdle to Abu Qatada's extradition from UK
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan has removed the last hurdle preventing Britain from sending radical cleric Abu Qatada back home for trial by approving an extradition treaty satisfying British concerns about evidence used against him, officials said on Wednesday. The British government has for years been unable to deport Abu Qatada back to his native Jordan, where he is wanted on alleged terrorism ...
June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Jordan moves on treaty with Britain to allow deportation of Abu Qatada
AMMAN, Jordan, June 12 (UPI) -- Approval of a treaty with Jordan likely will jump start British efforts to deport radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada, British government officials said.
June 12, 2013 - UPI
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- Marouf al-Bakhit in International Herald Tribune
Ayham al-Samaraie who escaped from his jail in Baghdad arrived in Amman as an American and on an American plane,Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit told reporters. - Condoleezza Rice in Guardian Unlimited
Really as the Iraqis said to us today, reconciliation begins in Baghdad, not in Riyadh, not in Amman, it begins in Baghdad,Rice said Thursday. "And they understand that it's their responsibility to reconcile the various communities." - Hoshyar Zebari in International Herald Tribune
He's in good spirits. He'll be back in Baghdad soon to resume his responsibilities,Zebari said. "The decision to take him to Amman was a precautionary one."