@upthecreekyetagain wrote:
So are we safer if he is freed in Jordan than we were when he was in prison in the UK?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28033749
Hmmm, well he's not yet free in Jordan as he has another charge to face in September.
No doubt when he was in prison here he was able to make contact with jihadists but he wasn't able to preach his vile sermons.
If he's found not guilty of the second charge in Jordan and freed I think he'll be less of a threat to us here than he will be in Jordan.
As a Shia he's trying to rally his supporters to destroy ISIS. It's unusual in the ME for a Sunni jihadist group to form so I expect he will want to put all his energies into defeating them in Syria and Iraq so that might act as a destraction from the West as his main target. Maybe someone - as evoman notes - may take not give him a choice...
