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RADICAL Muslim preacher Abu Qatada was acquitted in Jordan yesterday of involvement in a “millennium plot” targeting Israeli and US tourists and Western diplomats in 2000.
The three-judge panel unanimously acquitted him “because of the lack of convincing charges against him,” said Judge Ahmed Qattarneh.
His case was tried in Jordan’s State Security court, but with civilian judges.
He was acquitted in June in another case concerning a foiled 1999 plan to attack a US school in Amman, Jordan.
Palestinian-born Mr Qatada fled a Jordanian crackdown on militants in 1993, arriving in Britain on a forged passport.
He was granted asylum after a year, but this was revoked because of his political activities in support of al-Qaida.
He had been convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison, but upon his extradition last July, those sentences were suspended and he was ordered to stand a new trial.
