Shall I tell you what makes me chuckle about all this?

But first, let me see if I have got the story more or less straight.

Qatada was convicted "In absentia" by a Jordanian court for crimes committed there. He slung his hook to the UK and now refuses to go back to Jordan to face the music 'cos he says that  he is scared that testimony obtained by torture will be used against him.

Is that about it?

So here's the thing. How come he thinks the Jordanians are tricky enough to obtain evidence against him by using torture, yet at the same time, honest enough to say that no evidence obtained by torture would be used to convict him in a Jordanian court ..... and mean it. That's a very narrow band of honesty.