{"id":3246,"date":"2013-12-25T08:18:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T08:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2013-12-25T08:18:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T08:18:21","slug":"jordan-cleric-qatada-rejects-terrorism-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/12\/25\/3246\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan cleric Qatada rejects terrorism charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/abu-qatadah.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Palestinian-born Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has hit out at a judge, as he protested his innocence at the resumption of his\u00a0 trial on terrorism charges in Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I am not guilty, and you are a dishonest judge,&#8221; Abu Qatada, who was deported by Britain in July after a nearly decade-long legal battle, told judge Ahmad Qatarneh on Tuesday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The preacher 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 labour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2000, he was sentenced in absentia to 15 years for plotting to attack\u00a0 tourists in Jordan during millennium celebrations, and videotapes of his sermons were allegedly found in the Hamburg flat of 9\/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Qatarneh led a panel of civilian judges after Abu Qatada and his lawyer contested the presence of a military judge at the start of his trial on December 10, saying it was against a Jordanian-British deal which cleared the way for him to be tried in the kingdom.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abu Qatada shook and kissed the hands of his four sisters after the court allowed them, along with his three brothers and son, to attend the trial on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8216;Shut up&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wearing brown overalls, he stood uncuffed before the judge.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;You shut up and sit down,&#8221; Abu Qatada told a military prosecutor after he demanded the suspect &#8220;respect the court.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The judge adjourned the trial until January 16 after a two-hour hearing which was open to the media but with cameras banned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On December 10, Abu Qatada pleaded not guilty, telling the court: &#8220;You know full well I am not guilty and that this accusation is false.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After his deportation, Abu Qatada was granted a retrial in line with Jordanian law, and military prosecutors charged him with conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts. If convicted he could face a minimum of 15 years&#8217; hard labour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Britain&#8217;s expulsion of Abu Qatada came after Amman and London ratified a treaty guaranteeing that evidence obtained by torture would not be used in his retrial and that the proceedings would be transparent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Born Omar Mahmud Mohammed Othman in Bethlehem in the now Israeli-occupied West Bank, Abu Qatada has Jordanian nationality because the town was part of Jordan at the time of his birth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> Aljazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian-born Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has hit out at a judge, as he protested his innocence at the resumption of his\u00a0 trial on terrorism charges in Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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