Terror suspect with flightpath map avoids deportation
10.04.08
A terror suspect who was 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, was 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’. 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 from last year that an A-Z street atlas was found in the boot of a car at DD's home, showing markings along footpaths that ran under aircraft routes to Birmingham Airport. Siac said: ‘The markings might have been for reconnaissance purposes.'
The Home Secretary 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. A second brother-in-law, Mustapha Maymouni, is serving 18 years in Morocco for his part in the Casablanca bombings that killed 45 people in May 2003.
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