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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.