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IHT: British court rules Muslim cleric can be deported

IHT: British court rules Muslim cleric can be deported

LONDON: A Palestinian-born cleric described by British security officials as “a significant international terrorist” lost the latest round in a seven-year battle to remain in Britain as a refugee Wednesday when the highest court in Britain ruled that he could be deported to Jordan, where he was convicted in absentia in a terrorist bombing and a bomb plot in the late 1990s.