UK official to visit Jordan for talks on cleric
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British Home Secretary Theresa May says she will go to Jordan in a bid to overcome a European ban on deporting a radical Islamist cleric to the Arab country.
Britain wants to deport Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-Jordanian cleric whom British officials say is an al-Qaeda figurehead and a threat to national security. But extradition has been prevented by a European Court of Human Rights ruling that there is a risk that evidence obtained through torture would be used against him if he is put on trial in Jordan. (AP)
