Abu Qatada wins appeal against deportation

Pity someone can't just bump him off, but that's more of a Mo-style MO.

 Mary - maybe one of his ever-lovin' Mohammedan gang bros will bump him off ...either because one among them wants his job, or because somebody else decides that he is insufficiently Islamic or the wrong brand of Muslim.  I'd assume he's Sunni; there must be Shiites slinking about London as well.

James Parkes puts it so beautifully, in his book 'Whose Land?', when he comes to the Mamluk dynasty: "By intrigue and assassination they ascended the throne and by intrigue and assassination they perished".

 Over at jihadwatch, which was crossposting the 'Telegraph' version of this story, I came across this fascinating snippet of information.

"During a seven-day hearing last month, the commission heard evidence from Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards, who has studied Jordan's political situation for 25 years.

'She said Qatada remained a "controversial" figure in Jordan and a fair trial was unlikely."

If it was Prof Milton-Edwards' advice and counsel that helped swing the decision Abu Qatada's way, that is...interesting.

Prof Milton-Edwards has written a book on Hamas.  Prof Milton-Edwards has also written a book about what she is pleased to call 'a people's war': "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: a People's War", and her views on the Poooor 'Palestinians' [tm] appear (judging from a few other things I trawled up from the net in a quick pass) to be exactly what one would expect.

 Pursuant to my remarks above.

Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards, who is so tenderly solicitous of the human rights of Abu Qatada, hangs round with Alastair Crooke and has co-authored with him on at least one occasion.