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Home Front: WoT
Osama bin Laden's ex-London spokesman is ‘freed early from 25 year US jail term because he is at high risk from Covid due to his obesity' and 'will return to the UK within weeks'
2020-10-12
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Egyptian native Adel Abdel Bary, 60, was jailed over the 1998 terror attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224

  • He was the leader of the London branch of Egyptian Islamic Jihad,
    ... Ayman al-Zawahiri‘s outfit...
    which merged with Al Qaeda

  • His long legal battle meant he was sentenced in 2015 after 16 years on remand

  • A judge ruled last week he could be released early amid coronavirus fears

  • He had been serving his sentence in the ADX Florence supermax prison

  • Bary - who had struck a plea deal - is at risk because he is obese and has asthma

  • He is currently in a US immigration and customs enforcement detention facility

  • He cannot be placed under Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures because he has already served his sentence

  • UK officials are mulling over whether to ask if he can stay in America

  • He is the father of ISIS jihadi Abdel-Majed Abdel who is in jail in Spain
Related:
Adel Abdel Bary: 2015-02-07 Egyptian jailed in US over Africa embassy bombings
Adel Abdel Bary: 2015-01-21 Latest al-Qaida Trial Gets Underway in New York
Adel Abdel Bary: 2013-12-14 Abu Anas Al-Libi New York terror trial date fixed
Related:
Abdel-Majed Abdel: 2020-04-22 Spanish Police arrests Egyptian man who is one of the most wanted ISIS members in Europe
Abdel-Majed Abdel: 2016-03-10 Names of 22,000 IS members said leaked to news channel
Abdel-Majed Abdel: 2015-02-07 Egyptian jailed in US over Africa embassy bombings
Related:
Egyptian Islamic Jihad: 2019-09-12 Al Qaeda leader calls for new terror attacks against US, allies
Egyptian Islamic Jihad: 2019-08-23 Pentagon chief confirms death of Qaeda’s Hamza bin Laden
Egyptian Islamic Jihad: 2019-03-23 US adds Amaq, Al Hayat outlets to terror list for ISIS propaganda
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  But who's gonna bring him his Jello.
Ya gotta have Jailo.
Posted by: ed in texas   2020-10-12 19:22  

#5  Why not? Everybody's doing it.
Posted by: Clem   2020-10-12 18:45  

#4  WTF?
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-10-12 17:50  

#3  Food too good in Florence???
Posted by: European Conservative   2020-10-12 17:42  

#2  Set as today’s headline.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-10-12 12:37  

#1  "We keep telling you, send us Christopher Steele or more of this..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-10-12 10:50  

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