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Abu Qatada al-Filistini

A Jordanian Salafi cleric convicted in absentia in Jordan of planning terror plots, who long fought deportation from the United Kingdom. The 2010 opening stated flatly that he "is an Islamist militant." The word survives twice in the article today but is gone from the opening, which now says he "was accused of having links to terrorist organisations." A reader today learns he is accused of links to terrorism, and not that Wikipedia once identified him outright as a militant.
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Abû-Qatâda al-Filisṭînî ( ), sometimes called Abû-Omar ( ابو عمر ) is an Islamist militant.1 Under the name Omar Mahmoud Othman ( عمر محمود عثمان ), he is under worldwide embargo by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267 for his affiliation with al-Qaeda .2 He is wanted on terrorism charges in Algeria , the United States , Belgium , Spain , France , Germany , Italy , and his native Jordan . Statement from the Algerian government to the UN 1267 Committee , English translation by Nuclear Threat Initiative Britain's most wanted (meaning Abu Qatada, who was missing at the time), The Observer , 12 May 20023

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