Terror suspect's Iraq kidnap plea

[muriel_volestrangler]

An unusual event - I hate the messages he normally preaches (Sharia law in the UK, borderline incitement to terrorism, etc.) but i do appreciate his intervention in this case.

A terror suspect held in a British jail has made a video appeal for the release of Briton Norman Kember, taken hostage with three others in Iraq last month.

Radical cleric Abu Qatada, detained since 2002, urged the kidnappers to free the hostage "in line with the principle of mercy of our religion".
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The terror suspect said on the video: "I am your brother Abu Qatada, Omar bin Mahmud Abu Omar, who is imprisoned in Full Sutton jail in Britain.

"I urge my brothers in the Brigades of Swords of Right in Iraq to release them in line with the principle of mercy of our religion, if there was no compelling religious duty against it."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4506970.stm