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Abu Qatada cleared of terror charges [View all]
Source: BBC News
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has been found not guilty of terrorism offences by a court in Jordan.
A panel of civilian judges sitting at Amman's State Security Court cleared him of being involved in a thwarted plot aimed at the millennium celebrations in 2000.
The ruling comes after he was acquitted in June of conspiring in a 1998 bombing campaign in Jordan.
Abu Qatada was deported from the UK in July 2013.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-29340656
Hopefully he'll stay deported from the UK just the same.
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