Talk:Abu Qatada

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I have started to redo this piece and bring it up to a standard befitting such a champion of al-Qaeda and Londonistan.

LDH 12:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Patience, folks. More coming.

LDH 16:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed an unsourced, unverifiable, and apparently untrue, sentence

I removed this unsourced sentence:

• Abu Qatada is frequently cited – always with approval – in the 2004 al-Qaeda policy paper called Management of Savagery.

This looks like original research, since googling for 'Abu Qatada' 'Management of Savagery' comes up with nothing that says that he's mentioned in the paper. It also appears to be a lie, in that I downloaded a pdf copy of Management of Savagery (see the wiki page for links to it), converted it to text and tried grepping for 'Qatada' and 'Omar' and 'Mahmoud' and 'Othman' and found absolutely nothing. If this article is going to be a target for disinformation, I reckon that's a cue for me to come back to this article at a later date and ruthlessly excise anything that isn't properly sourced with page numbers and whatnot.--Aim Here 22:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More unsourced stuff

I slapped a 'fact' tag on this passage, but I've a sneaking suspicion it might be false, in that I've only found a mere blog posting claiming that he was the editor while someone else issued a fatwa declaring the Algerian people to be 'kufr' [1]. Anyone got any reliable sources that back up the rather sensationalist wording of the article, or even the less exciting version in the blog?

• While free in the UK Abu Qatada was the editor-in-chief of GIA's Al-Ansar magazine, and contributed fatwas to that magazine authorizing the indiscriminate mass murder of random Algerians. (Mustafa Setmariam Nasar was an editor and contributor at the same time, when he too was in England with political refugee status.)

Aim Here 10:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Legal Status

I am not happy with the recent addition of the Court of Appeal case on the potential deportation of Qatada; it looks much like a copy/paste job from the BBC website. Any objections to removal? Let me know

Ben stephenson (talk) 21:31, 9 April 2008 (UTC)