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Abu Qatada

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Omar Mahmoud Othman (Arabic: عمر بن محمود بن عثمان, romanized: 'Umar ibn Maḥmūd ibn 'Uṯmān; born 30 December 1960), better known as Abu Qatada al-Filistini ( AH-boo kə-TAH-də; Arabic: أبو قتادة الفلسطيني, romanized: 'Abū Qatāda al-Filisṭīnī), is a Jordanian Salafi cleric. Abu Qatada was accused of having links to terrorist organisations and frequently imprisoned in the United Kingdom without formal charges or prosecution before being deported to Jordan, where he was acquitted of multiple terrorism charges. Abu Qatada claimed asylum in the United Kingdom in 1993 on a forged passport. In 1999, he was convicted in absentia in Jordan of planning thwarted terror plots during Jordan's millennium eve and was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment with hard labour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abu Qatada is the 57th most popular mafioso (up from 61st in 2019). (up from 4,403rd in 2019)

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Abu Qatada ranks 57 out of 70. Before him are Sammy Gravano, Joseph Colombo, Joe Profaci, Anna Sorokin, Tony Accardo, and Carlos Marcello. After him are Sergei Magnitsky, Jonathan Pollard, Kenneth Lay, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Rakhat Aliyev, and Abu Hamza al-Masri.

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Among people born in 1960, Abu Qatada ranks 278. Before him are Dominic Miller, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Will Wright, Loïc Wacquant, and Kyle Gass. After him are Michèle Laroque, Alan Krueger, Abel Resino, Alexandre Czerniatynski, Leland Orser, and Maho Shimizu.

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