In the same week that Sun journalists were subjected to dawn raids at home, the British justice system released one of the leading ideologues of al-Qa’eda to walk the streets.
The fact that Abu Qatada should never have been here in the first place, having arrived in 1993 on a forged passport, is not a minor point.
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