"We confirm that we have submitted our grounds for appeal," a Home Office front man told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A judge will consider the bid to challenge last month's move by Britannia's Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) blocking the extradition over fears that evidence obtained through torture could be used in Abu Qatada's trial.
The radical Islamist holy man -- dubbed the late Osama bin Laden
... who has left the building...
's right-hand man in Europe -- was released on bail following the SIAC ruling, in a severe blow to the British government.
British authorities have kept him in jug for most of the last decade and repeatedly tried to send him to Jordan to face trial.
Abu Qatada was convicted in absentia in Jordan in 1998 for involvement in terror attacks, but both British and European judges have accepted his argument that evidence obtained by torture might be used against him in a retrial.
Prime Minister
David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
said last month that he was "completely fed up with the fact that this man is still on the lam in our country".
Abu Qatada, a Jordanian of Paleostinian origin in his early 50s, is currently under curfew 16 hours a day and is wearing an electronic tag, but he is free to leave his home in northwest London between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm.