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Abu Qatada al-Filistini ( ; (アラビア語:أبو قتادة الفلسطيني), ''’Abū Qatāda al-Filisṭīnī (Palestinian )''), born Omar Mahmoud Othman ((アラビア語:عمر بن محمود بن عثمان) ''‘Umar ibn Maḥmūd ibn ‘Uṯmān'') in 1959/1960, is a Jordanian national of Palestinian origin who is under worldwide embargo by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267 for his alleged affiliation with Al-Qaeda. He was repeatedly imprisoned and released in the United Kingdom after he was first detained under anti-terrorism laws in 2002, but was not prosecuted for any crime. The Algerian government has described Abu Qatada as being involved with Islamists in London and possibly elsewhere. After initially barring the United Kingdom from deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan, in May 2012 the European Court of Human Rights denied him leave to appeal against deportation without specifying a reason.〔Reuters, "(Britain: Radical Cleric Faces Setback in Court Over Efforts to Deport Him )", reprinted by ''The New York Times'', 9 May 2012.〕 On 12 November 2012, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) upheld Abu Qatada's appeal against deportation and released him on restrictive bail conditions. The Home Secretary Theresa May said the government would appeal against the decision. He was deported to Jordan on 7 July 2013, after the UK and Jordanian governments agreed and ratified a treaty satisfying the need for clarification that evidence gained through torture would not be used against him in his forthcoming trial.〔(Abu Qatada deported from UK to stand trial in Jordan )〕 On 26 June 2014, Abu Qatada was found not guilty by a Jordan court of terrorism charges relating to an alleged 1998 plot. He remained in prison pending a verdict that was due September 2014 on a second alleged plot. On 24 September 2014, a panel of civilian judges sitting at Amman's State Security Court cleared him of being involved in a thwarted plot aimed at Western and Israeli targets in Jordan during the millennium celebrations in 2000. ==Life== Abu Qatada, who was born Omar Mahmoud Othman, has Jordanian nationality because he was born in Bethlehem in the West Bank in 1960, which at that time was occupied by Jordan. In 1989, he went to Peshawar in Pakistan where he served as a professor of ''sharia'' sciences. While it has been reported that he met Osama bin Laden while in Peshawar,〔BBC News, ''Investigating Al Qaeda'', (). Retrieved 3 March 2012.〕 Abu Qatada has himself been reported as distancing himself from links to Al-Qaeda and had said he never met with Osama bin Laden. In 1991, after the Gulf War, Abu Qatada was expelled from Kuwait, along with many other Palestinians. He returned to Jordan, but in September 1993 he fled with his wife and five children to the UK, using a forged UAE passport. He requested asylum on grounds of religious persecution, claiming he had been tortured in Jordan, and asylum was granted in June 1994. Around 1994, Qatada started up and was editor-in-Chief of a weekly magazine, ''Usrat al-Ansar'', a Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA) propaganda outlet.〔 Abu Qatada "provided the intellectual and ideological firepower" to justify GIA actions,〔Kepel, ''Jihad'', 2002: p.263〕 and the journal became "a trusted source of news and information about the GIA for Islamists around the world." Qatada was granted leave to remain to 30 June 1998. On 8 May 1998 he applied for indefinite leave to remain. This application had not been determined before the applicant’s arrest on 23 October 2002. On that date he was taken into detention under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.〔(ECtHR judgment: "CASE OF OTHMAN (ABU QATADA) v. THE UNITED KINGDOM" ), 17 Jan 2012〕 Qatada resided in the United Kingdom until 7 July 2013, when he was deported back to Jordan to face retrials for alleged involvement in varied Jordanian mayhem.〔 He was freed after both Jordanian retrials, in which by formal agreement with the UK government evidence-obtained-by-torture was discarded. His ordeal ended in September 2014.〔 While in the UK, he continued to be preoccupied with religious affairs; for example, in 1995 he wrote a ''fatwa'' in which he called fellow Muslims to fulfill Koran verse 4:89, and, in punishment for ''Hudud'', to slay apostates to his faith and their wives and children.〔〔(dailymail.co.uk: "Terrorist on the school run: Bin Laden's 'ambassador in Europe' to be free in days... and judge says he can take his child to class" ), 8 Feb 2012〕 He is known to have associated with Osama bin Laden, Abu Dahdah,〔aka Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas〕 Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Mohammed Omran, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar,〔aka Abu Abed〕 Khalid al-Fawwaz〔aka Abu Al Hareth〕 and Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi and his sermons were at one point greatly valued by many in the Al-Qaeda camp.〔 In his original ''in absentia'' Jordanian trial, he was known as the London-based financier of the Jordanian cell.〔 The term ''Londonistan'' was born due in significant part to his activities.〔(newstatesman.com: "Why the French call us Londonistan " ), 9 Dec 2002〕〔(ctc.usma.edu: "The Changing Scene in Londonistan" ), 3 Feb 2010〕 According to Conservative politician Boris Johnson, Abu Qatada's residence in Britain is estimated to have cost the British taxpayer at least £500,000 in benefit payments to his family and other expenses by early 2012. ''The Daily Telegraph'' claimed the cost to be as high as £3 million by May 2012, a figure that was not confirmed by the British Home Office. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abu Qatada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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