A military court in Jordan has acquitted preacher Abu Qatada of terror charges over a foiled 1999 plot to attack an American school in the capital Amman.

Abu Qatada has finally faced terror charges in Jordan after a near-decade long battle to deport the radical cleric came to a tense close.

The family of radical preacher Abu Qatada has won an injunction preventing protesters from demonstrating outside their home in the UK.

A radical Islamist cleric — described by prosecutors as a key al Qaeda operative in Europe — cannot be deported from Britain to Jordan to face terrorism charges, judges ruled in the latest twist in a protracted legal saga.

Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May has said that the Government will continue the fight to "get rid" of terror suspect Abu Qatada after he won his latest battle to stay in the UK.

A group linked to al-Qaida has said it will free a kidnapped British man, but only if radical cleric Abu Qatada is released.

Europe’s human rights judges are unlikely ever to reveal whether or not British Home Secretary Theresa May was right to say that Abu Qatada’s appeal was made too late, MPs heard today.

UK Home Secretary Theresa May tonight dismissed terror suspect Abu Qatada’s latest bid to avoid deportation as a “delaying tactic”.

Radical cleric Abu Qatada was arrested today as the British government prepared to set out its next steps in sending him back to Jordan.

Bail conditions have been agreed for radical cleric Abu Qatada, Britain’s judiciary said, signalling his imminent release from an English prison.

A radical Islamic preacher that Britain believes poses a threat to its national security has been granted bail, despite attempts by the Home Office to keep him in prison.

THE European Court of Human Rights yesterday blocked Britain from extraditing an alleged top aide of Osama bin Laden to Jordan, saying evidence against him may have been obtained through torture.

AL-QAIDA’S north African wing has said it had carried out its threat to kill a British hostage it was holding in the Sahara.

A tape purportedly from the kidnappers of journalist Alan Johnston is being looked at by the BBC.

Iraqi forces have captured the prime suspect in last year’s kidnapping of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, the US military said today.

Guantanamo Bay detainee Feroz Abbasi claimed American military police had sex in front of him while he was praying at the Cuban base, according to US Defence Department documents.

The US’s idea of what constitutes torture “is not the same as ours and doesn’t appear to coincide with that of most civilised countries”, a High Court judge in London said today.

BRITISH police say London’s Finsbury Park Mosque, where jailed cleric Abu Hamza used to deliver his sermons, had links to numerous terrorism cases around the world in the last decade.

Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri has claimed directly that his terror network was “honoured” to have carried out the London bombings which killed 52 innocent people.

A Brussels judge today ordered 13 people to stand trial on charges of aiding and abetting terrorists, including those suspected in last year’s Madrid train bombings and in a 2003 bomb explosion in Casablanca.

SOME of the terror suspects held for deportation from Britain are at “serious risk” in prison, their solicitor Gareth Pierce claimed last night.

BRITAIN yesterday barred radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri from returning to the country that was his home for the past 20 years, saying his presence was no longer “conducive to the public good.”

Jordan will ask Britain next week to extradite the radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who has been described as Osama bin Laden’s “spiritual ambassador in Europe”, Interior Minister Awni Yirfas said today.

TEN terror suspects, including a radical preacher described as “al-Qaida’s ambassador to Europe”, were detained yesterday in a series of early morning raids across Britain.

A radical preacher suspected of being al-Qaida’s ambassador in Europe is to be deported from Britain after a series of early morning raids today.

Jordan and Britain will soon sign a memorandum of understanding on the joint-extradition of wanted people between both countries, Jordanian Interior Minister Awni Yirfas said today.

Tony Blair will today hold talks with senior intelligence officers and police chiefs in the wake of the London bombings.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday said he was considering hosting a conference to bring together all countries affected by Islamic extremism.

Eight foreign terror suspects detained without charge or trial for up to three-and-a-half years were granted bail in the UK today.

Tony Blair was today facing a looming constitutional crisis as the House of Lords again refused to give ground over the British government’s controversial anti-terrorism powers.

BRITAIN’S top court delivered a severe jolt to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s post-September 11 security policies on Thursday by ruling against the detention of nine foreign terrorism suspects without trial.

British security chiefs have had intelligence for nearly a year about an al-Qaida-supporting splinter group based in Luton and London where many of today’s raids took place.

The FBI has warned that al-Qaida may be planning to target the US rail network.

A suspected al Qaida leader and his family are living in a safe house in northern England where they are being looked after by British intelligence, it was claimed today.

A man suspected to have been training to be one of the September 11 suicide hijackers has been charged with multiple conspiracy counts in the US.