Abu Qatada(!)

Considered such a threat to national security here in the UK he's even got his own theme song; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=marc_v4FaT8

Anyway rumours that the self-proclaimed Father of the Something or Other (Seriously now Google's even deleting my notes)  was about to be arrested started circulating on Thursday (7/3/13) evening. Of course if you'd been told this at the time it would have drawn your attention to the UK House of Commons vote on 'Secret Courts' and terrorist detention. The LibDems MP's voted in favour of it but today (10/3/13) the LibDems conference voted against it. But frankly who cares because it's already gone up to the House of Lords.

Anyway late on Friday (8/3/13) evening Omar Mahoud Othman who according to Google was born in Jordan around 1950 and now goes by the pseudonym Abu Qatada (al-Filistini) was finally arrested at his home following 'alleged' breaches of his bail conditions. As far as I can tell this 'breach' included "allowing a cellphone to be switched on in his home, in his presence" Personally I'm not familiar with those bail conditions but it strikes me as an "Islamic Terrorism Suspect." However he's apparently he's going to appear in front of a "Special Immigration and Appeals Commission" (SIAC) tribunal (Secret Court) later today.

Initially we were hoping you would get confused somewhere around the House of Commons vote on 'Secret Courts' then we would blast you with the argument about phone hacking, me, Chris Brown and the definition of the term 'bail conditions.'

If you survived that we were hoping you would catch the UK Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Teresa May giving her big speech Saturday (9/3/13) about plans to withdraw the UK from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) - the LibDems will never allow it. Here she blamed Abu Qatada's continuing presence in the UK as some how the ECHR's fault. The problem is those of us in the UK who can still read remember that the ECHR have already more then given permission for Abu Qatada to be deported back to Jordan.

It was a British court that refused to deport him in order to set up a dialogue with Jordan about how to best destroy Syria. Anyway low and behold Saturday evening those United Nations (UN) peacekeepers were released into Jordan. It's almost as if the Brits were appealing for attention by making it look like they were showing Saudi Arabia how easy it is to control the 'Syrian Rebels.'

01:10 on 11/3/13.