HUSSAIN ALSAMAMARA CHALLENGES HIS CURFEW IN U.K
* Hussain Saleh Hussain Alsamamara, a Jordanian living in London, judged to be a threat to national security has decided to break his strict bail conditions so he can speak out about the difficulty of his life under virtual house arrest.
Hussain Saleh Hussain Alsamamara has been filmed over the past six months by two independent film-makers who then passed the material to the BBC’s Newsnight programme.
The government claimed Hussain Alsamamara is a committed Islamist extremist and a danger to Britain. Almost all of the evidence against him is thought to be intelligence material which neither he nor his lawyers have seen (see- ABC-Group).
Hussain Alsamamara arrived in Britain in 2001 and claimed asylum. That claim was rejected and in 2004 he was arrested by police and imprisoned, pending deportation to Jordan.
The Jordanian intelligence department has told the British government it wants to question him in relation to alleged contact with the former leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, and over claims that he underwent paramilitary training in Afghanistan.
Hussain Alsamamara denies any links with terrorism and says he faces torture if he is returned.
However, SIAC’s judgment does refer to two open strands of evidence. Police found two CDs in a rack on his bedroom floor when they searched his house in 2004. The contents were discussed in closed sessions so we cannot be sure what was on these CDs, but it is likely to be propaganda material. Hussain Alsamamara denies any knowledge of these CDs.
Police also found a will in an envelope on a notice-board. SIAC said it was written in “lurid terms”. It includes references to “jihad” and records his wish “to slaughter” members of the Jordanian government and the police. “I would ask Allah to make my fate to be in a land of Jihad…say to my brothers (named) to live according to Allah’s will and join up those to sacrifice their blood for the cause of Allah and fulfil what the Prophet Mohamed had said: ‘if I want to conquer in the name of Allah, then I would fight, then conquer, fight then conquer more'” – he wrote among other things.
Hussain Alsamamara does not deny writing this will but argues it simply quotes from the Qur’an and the hadiths, and it reflects his natural hatred of the Jordanian authorities who tortured him in the past.
SIAC disagreed, stating: “This is the will of an Islamist extremist… it is a declaration by an Islamist extremist that he wishes, if possible, to meet his fate in fighting the enemies of Islam”.
Newsnight showed the wording to an imam and expert, Dr Usama Hasan. He knows the jihadi mindset, having volunteered as a young man to fight with the Afghan mujahideen. Now he works to counter radicalization in the UK. Dr Hasan told Newsnight: “This is someone who is clearly inspired by jihadi ideas, what I would call Al Qaeda ideas, and is very passionate about the jihad, going as far as to regard the Muslim governments and police and armies as legitimate targets… not a normal will at all”.
A film made from Hussain Alsamamara’s interview material, broadcast on Wednesday 06/16/2010 night by the BBC, offers a rare glimpse into the life of someone at the centre of controversial legislation which permits the use of secret evidence against terror suspects.
Hussain Alsamamara is tagged, must stay inside his house for 18 hours a day, and when he leaves he can only travel a couple of miles from his home in a legally delineated zone. He cannot meet people without prior approval from the home secretary, has no access to the internet and has one fixed telephone line which is likely to be monitored.
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