'Threats to UK security' detained

[muriel_volestrangler]

Ten foreign nationals who the Home Office says pose a threat to UK security have been detained by police.

The Jordanian cleric Abu Qatada, who is subject to a control order, is one of the 10, the BBC has learned.
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The arrests, in south-east England and the Midlands, come a day after the UK reached an agreement with Jordan that deportees would not face persecution.
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Abu Qatada was one of the so-called Belmarsh detainees, who was detained in the high security jail without charge for around two years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4141000.stm

I don't know what to think of Jordan; it's the only Arab country I've been to, and it didn't seem like a police state (everyone was friendly, including the police, and it seemed pretty open), and the last 2 kings seem moderate, in public, but the stories of torture on behalf of the USA seem pretty definite. I don't know if their word can be trusted about 'persecution'.

[Briar]

1. This is interesting

Abu Qatada was convicted in Jordianian courts in his absence. He is to be sent back to face - what?

Dr Ahmad Chalabi was convicted in a Jordanian court in his absence. He is currently helping to run Iraq.