Abu Qatada & Wife Receive $90,000 per Year In Free Brit Govt Handouts
23rd June 2008
Abu Qatada is to receive almost £8,000 a year in benefits because he has a bad back. The fanatical cleric, said to be Osama Bin Laden’s ambassador in Europe, will get £150 a week of taxpayer’s cash after being released from jail last week.
He was granted the incapacity benefit because his condition makes him unfit to work – even though a curfew allows him out of his home for only two hours a day, meaning it would be almost impossible for him to get a job.
Qatada left Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire after the Appeal Court blocked his deportation to Jordan. He is now living in an £800,000 four-bedroom Edwardian semi in a tree-lined street in West London.
His incapacity allowance will push the family’s total annual handouts to more than £50,000. His wife has been claiming £45,000 a year in child benefit, income support, housing benefit and council tax credit for the past four years.
That’s over $90K a year.
Steve Pound, Labour MP for Ealing North, which borders Qatada’s West London home, said: ‘This is adding insult to injury. He abuses us and bleeds us dry at the same time. The sooner he gets back to Jordan the better. I for one would put him in the boot of my car and drive him there myself.’
Taxpayers are also footing an estimated £500,000 a year bill to provide round-the-clock surveillance on Qatada, who has been described by a judges as a ‘truly dangerous individual’.
He arrived in Britain 14 years ago on a forged passport and was granted asylum the following year. He was convicted in his absence in Jordan of involvement with terror attacks in 1998, and of plotting to plant bombs during the Millennium-celebrations. Last week a judge freed the cleric on bail after ruling he would face an unfair trial if deported to Jordan.
But the Special Immigration Appeals Commission imposed un-precedented conditions on his release, including a 22-hour curfew and wearing an electronic tag.
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Amazing.
Glad Im not paying taxes in the UK.
Any British readers, how does this shit make you feel?
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:58 amGimme a baseball bat and I’ll fix his bad back for him for free.
Lead-poisoning also works; preferably if inserted at the base of the brain. 
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 amThis is truly an abomination. This is why Britain is in danger of losing control of their country to the muslims. Wake up America. Don’t let this happen here….The muslims are our enemies.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:04 amIMO, Britain’s already lost to the muzzies, but no one there is willing to admit it.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:29 amThis ugly slob should be thrown out of Europe and probably should already be dead. The fact that he’s being paid for a bad back by a country that is not his home is a freaking mind bender. QUIT trying to placate these freaks and end their terror in our countries! ANYONE breathing out threats and jihad against my country *should* be considered making terroristic threats and severely dealt with immediately.
He looks like he crapped his robes too. What an ugly swine.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 amHandouts to Islamist equates to jizya. These fuckers expect their share from infidels, that the British govt. is so daft only further convinces muslims everywhere of their own superiority complex.
Talk about surrendering your nation to goatfuckers one handout at a time, 45k pounds is suicide - handout tax funded Korans to every Brit while you’re at it and let the mass conversions begin already.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 amThis whole sordid affair involving Abu Qatada is Exhibit A on why Obama’s “law and order” approach to combatting terrorism will never work. This piglet should be in Jordan awaiting his execution.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 amFrom the Brits I know, and I trade email with several of them weekly, which may not sound like a lot, but even the most liberal of them are sick of B.S. like this.
What the Brits will need to do is get rid of the judges like this that blocked the deportation of the SOS, and put the one’s that are concerned with British safety in place.
And we as Americans need to do the same with our house…
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:04 amThis is where we are headed, under dem control of all houses of government. Free money handouts for everyone, Consititutional rights and a lawyer and Miranda rights for terrorists, just like KSM asked for when he was captured, as his nephew Ramses Ben Youssef received and he expected. Yeah! This is the right thing to do. Obama, Obama, saviour of the human race! Saviour of the USA! Rights and money for everyone!
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:11 amPerfect candidate for the double tap.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 amHeart and mind.
These judges should be held up to public ridicule-actually a good old fashioned tar and feathering with the requisit jeering crowd would be quite nice.
This guy should be deported solely based on a bad case of the uglies, but the fact that Jordan wanted to seek justice on this slob and the British judges wouldn’t go along with the program, goes beyond imagination!!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 am