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Abu Qatada: Britain

European Court Of Human Rights Dept: A European Court of Human Rights review panel refused to hear Abu Qatada's challenge, marking a milestone in the legal wrangling over the alleged senior al-Qaida figure and effectively exhausting his efforts to have European judges intervene in the case, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "It is clearly our intention still to deport this man," said a spokesman for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron. He spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with government policy and lONDON - Radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada on Wednesday lost his bid to make a final appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against a British deportation order, effectively clearing the way for the U.K. to resume efforts to expel him to Jordan. That means Abu Qatada could be sent to Jordan within months though officials declined to offer any timetable mindful that Britain's efforts to remove the radical preacher have dragged for more than a decade. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.