Terror suspect with Birmingham Airport flightpath map avoids deportation
08.04.08
A terror suspect who was once found with a map marked with the flightpath to Birmingham Airport has defeated the Government's bid to deport him to Libya, even though the man, who can only be identified by the initials DD, has been described by a court as ‘real and direct threat to the national security of the UK’. A second Libyan, known only as AS and described as a ‘committed Islamist extremist’ also won his appeal against deportation.
The court ruled that DD was a ‘global jihadist with links to the Taliban and al Qaeda’. However, despite this, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) allowed appeals by DD and AS, granting them bail under strict conditions, including a daily 12-hour curfew.
It emerged in Siac documents last year that an A-Z street atlas was found in the boot of a car at DD's home, showing markings along footpaths which ran under aircraft routes to Birmingham airport, Britain's sixth largest. Siac said: ‘The markings might have been for reconnaissance purposes but might have a wholly innocent explanation.'
The Home Secretary's case also claimed DD's brother-in-law Serhane Fakhet blew himself up in a raid by Spanish police in the wake of the 2003 Madrid train bombings. Another brother-in-law of DD, Mustapha Maymouni, is serving 18 years in Morocco for his part in the Casablanca bombings which killed 45 people in May 2003.
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