LACK OF MEDICAL EXPERTISE IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES
Hamas terrorist wounded in Gaza being treated in Israeli hospital — reports
Move comes despite earlier decision that captured terrorists would only be treated in IDF or prison service medical facilities
Times of Israel
13 December 2023
A
Hamas terrorist wounded in fighting in the Gaza Strip is being treated
in Sharon Hospital in Petah Tikva, Hebrew media reported Wednesday.
The
move is in apparent contravention of a Health Ministry decision, made
in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, that
captured terrorists would only be treated in IDF or prison service
medical facilities.
According
to the reports, the man was seriously injured in fighting on Tuesday
and due to the severity of his wounds, it was decided to transfer him
to the central Israel medical center.
Officials
told Channel 12 that he was likely to be transferred to the Sde Teiman
military detention center once his condition stabilizes.
An
official told the Kan public broadcaster that he was sent to the
hospital because the military facility did not have the capability to
treat his wounds and that security at Sharon Hospital had been
increased.
There were no immediate details on the Hamas terrorist’s identity.
Sources
familiar with the decision told Channel 12 and Kan that captured
terrorists needing urgent medical treatment were being rotated through
different Israeli hospitals. The official said the rotation agreement
was done in coordination with the Health Ministry.
Soroka hospital in Beersheba confirmed to Kan that it also has a Gaza terrorist being treated there.
The comments appeared to indicate that Israel has shifted its stance
from the initial decision not to treat captured terrorists in Israeli
hospitals.
In
early October, then health minister Moshe Arbel sent a letter to Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informing him that he had ordered all
public hospitals and health services to redirect injured terrorists to
IDF or prison service medical facilities.
“Since
the beginning of the war, the issue of treating the accursed Hamas
terrorists in public hospitals has created great strain on the
healthcare system,” Arbel wrote.
He
wrote that the health system needed to be focused on treating victims
of the slaughter committed by the terrorists, injured soldiers, and on
preparing for what is to come in the war.
“The
task of treating and providing security for the accursed terrorists in
the public healthcare system just detracts from this,” Arbel wrote.
At
the time there were dozens of Hamas terrorists who were captured in the
aftermath of the October 7 onslaught, in which thousands of terrorists
invaded IDF bases and border communities, killing some 1,200 people,
most of them civilians, and taking 240 hostages.
In
recent days Israel has captured hundreds of suspected terrorists in
Gaza as it pushes ahead with its offensive and says they are providing
valuable information.
Indian doctor
detonated car bomb in deadly attack targeting jail in East of Afghanistan
By Khaama Press
Wednesday, 05
Aug 2020
An Indian
doctor detonated a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) in the
initial phase of a deadly attack on a jail in eastern Nangarhar province of
Afghanistan, it has been reported.
According to
local media reports emerging from India, a medical graduate, hailing originally
from Malayali of Kerala of India, detonated a car bomb close to the provincial
jail in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of India.
Identified as
Ijaz, who had recently graduated from medical faculty in China, the suicide
bomber detonated the car bomb to allow the other assailants storm the jail.
He reportedly
left Kerala to join the offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Khurasan (ISIS-K) in March of 2016.
Ijaz was
reportedly treating the wounded ISIS Khurasan cadres before volunteering to
carry out the deadly suicide attack which left at least 30 people dead.
Pakistani doctor arrested in Minnesota on terrorism charge
A Pakistani doctor and former
researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has been arrested on a
terrorism charge
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press
March 19, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS -- A Pakistani doctor
and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator was arrested Thursday in Minnesota
on a terrorism charge, after prosecutors say he told paid FBI informants that
he had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and wanted to carry
out lone wolf attacks in the United States.
Muhammad Masood, 28, was arrested
at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Thursday by FBI agents and
was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a
foreign terrorist organization.
Prosecutors say Masood was in the
U.S. on a work visa. They allege that starting in January, Masood made several
statements to paid informants — whom he believed were members of the Islamic State
group — pledging his allegiance to the group and its leader. He also allegedly
expressed his desire to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS and a desire to carry
out lone wolf attacks in the U.S.
At one point, Masood messaged an
informant “there is so much I wanted to do here .. .lon wulf
stuff you know ... but I realized I should be on the ground helping brothers
sisters kids,” according to an FBI affidavit.
Prosecutors say Masood bought a
plane ticket on Feb. 21 to travel from Chicago to Amman, Jordan, and then
planned to go to Syria from there. He had planned to leave at the end of March.
But on March 16, he had to change his travel plans because Jordan closed its
borders due to the coronavirus pandemic. Masood and one of the informants then
developed a plan for him to fly from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to meet with
that informant, whom Masood believed would help him travel in a cargo ship into
Islamic State territory.
Masood was arrested Thursday at the
airport after he checked in for his flight to Los Angeles. His attorney, Manny
Atwal, had no immediate comment.
Court documents do not name the
clinic where Masood worked, but a LinkedIn page for a man with the same name
and work history says Masood has worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minnesota, since February of 2018, first as a research trainee, but has been a
clinical research coordinator since May. A profile on researchgate.net says he
has done research in cardiology; he was scheduled to present his research for
the Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development in October 2018,
according to an online calendar of the event.
Mayo Clinic spokeswoman Ginger Plumbo said Masood formerly worked at the medical center,
but "was not employed by Mayo Clinic at the time of his arrest.”
According to an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint, Masood said in
February that he was going to notify his employer that his last day of work
would be March 17.
The affidavit said the FBI began
investigating in January, after learning that someone, later determined to be
Masood, had posted messages on an encrypted social media platform indicating an
intent to support ISIS.
On Jan. 24, Masood contacted one of
the informants on the encrypted platform and said he was a medical doctor with
a Pakistani passport and wanted to travel to Syria, Iraq or the northern region
of Iran stretching to Afghanistan “to fight on the frontline as well as
help the wounded brothers,” the affidavit said.
He explained that he wanted to make
the trip because he “hates smiling at the passing kuffar just to not make
them suspicios." The affidavit said kuffar is an
Arabic term meaning nonbeliever or non-Muslim. Masood also allegedly told the
informant he wanted help getting to the front lines. When the informant said
Masood might have to kill people, Masood replied, “i
want to kill and get killed ... and kill and get killed.”
At one point, the informant set up
a video conference with the second informant, whom Masood believed to be an
overseas commander who could vet Masood to fight for ISIS. Masood allegedly
told that informant he wanted to be a combat medic and fight, and had been
ready to go for some time.
Roughly three dozen Minnesotans “mostly
men from the state's large Somali community” have left Minnesota since
2007 to join al-Shabab in Somalia or militant groups in Syria, including the
Islamic State group. Several others have been convicted on terrorism-related
charges for plotting to join or provide support to those groups.
Senior PA
leader receiving medical treatment in Israeli hospital
Palestinian
Media Watch: 'He seems happy to be treated by the same Israelis he encouraged
Palestinians to murder.'
Mordechai Sones
14/05/19
Israel
National News
Ignoring the
PA’s recent decision to cancel all medical treatment in Israel for Palestinians,
senior Palestinian leader Jibril Rajoub is undergoing treatment in an Israeli
hospital. Mako reports that Rajoub recently became ill and chose to
be treated in Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv.
The PA decided
to end all medical care for its subjects in Israel following Israel's decision
to deduct from the tax money Israel collects for the PA the amount equal to the
PA’s salary payments for terrorists in jail. The decision to prioritize
salaries to terrorists over medical care for the general population, thousands
of whom until now were being treated in Israel annually, took effect on March
26, 2019, when PA Ministry of Health Spokesman Osama Al-Najjar announced that
"the decision is political par excellence, and comes in response to Israel
deducting sums from the money that it collects for us."
Israel has
willingly accepted to treat Rajoub despite the fact that he has openly called
to murder Israelis and has made it his key issue to advocate against “normalization”
with Israel in sports.
Commenting on
this latest example of PA double-standards, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)
senior analyst Nan Jacques Zilberdik said: “The
favoritism of the PA is striking. Not only do ordinary Palestinians have to
forego medical care in Israel because the PA is adamant about paying high
salaries to terrorists, Palestinians also have to witness one of their own
leaders getting treatment in a Israeli hospital that
for them is off bounds. Someone should give Rajoub a copy of Orwell’s
Animal Farm, unless of course he’s already read it, as he has clearly
adopted its ideology.”
Rajoub was the
most vocal of PA leaders in his support for terror and explicitly called to
murder Israelis during the terror wave in 2015-2016, the so-called “Knife
Intifada,” which saw months of murderous Muslim attacks, including
stabbings, shootings, and car rammings. In repeated
public statements on PA TV, Rajoub said murderers of Israelis should be seen as
Palestinian “heroes,” and “crowns on the head of every
Palestinian.” Rajoub also stated that Fatah “blessed and encouraged”
the murderers - and that he objected to suicide bombings on buses in Tel Aviv
only because the international community would be angry at those kind of
killings: At the time Rajoub defined the strategy as “We want to fight in
such a way that the world and the international community will remain by our
side.” He explained that "Palestinians" should focus on killing
soldiers or “settlers” because the international community doesn’t
care about them. (Based on this incitement, PMW gave in a complaint to the
Israeli police to investigate Rajoub on charges of incitement to murder.)
PMW Founder
and Director Itamar Marcus commented: “Whereas
the PA’s favoritism towards its leaders is common and expected practice
in corrupt governments like the PA, Israel's generosity is not common and
should not be expected. Israel's willingness to ignore that Rajoub not so long
ago was encouraging Palestinians to murder Israelis, and glorifying the
murderers as ‘crowns on the heads of Palestinians,’ is very
disturbing. Israel should have at least demanded from Rajoub an on-camera
retraction of his terror support before letting him set foot in Israel.
Otherwise, we will heal Rajoub today and tomorrow he will again be telling
Palestinians to murder Israelis.”
Rajoub has
also made it his key personal issue to be against “normalization”
with Israel. As Chairman of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sport
Affairs, Rajoub has prohibited PA athletes from engaging in any sports
activities with Israelis. Recently he demanded that “the Arab and Islamic
states cease every form of normalization with Israel in the field of sports”
and he “demanded” that the Spanish football club Atlético Madrid “not
play against the racist club Beitar Jerusalem” because
the match was to take place in what Rajoub referred to as “an occupied
Palestinian area.” In reality, the match was to take place in the western
part of Jerusalem.
Jacques Zilberdik notes: “Now that Rajoub is sick, he is
willing to bend the rules: ‘Normalization’ in sports - which
benefits the general Palestinian population and fosters peace - is bad and
prohibited, but ‘normalization’ in health care for Rajoub is
wonderful and allowed. Furthermore, he seems happy to be treated by the same
Israelis he encouraged Palestinians to murder.”
Isis jihadi 'returned to Sweden to treat war wounds'
1 March 2019
The Local
An Isis jihadi fighter returned to his home in Sweden to have wounds to his
shoulder treated for free at a state-run hospital, before returning to the front
line in Syria, Sweden's Expressen newspaper has
reported.
Khaled Shahadeh, 28, returned to Sweden in 2015 for
medical care before returning to Syria that summer, his father told the
newspaper, a claim the newspaper has confirmed by other sources.
Shahadeh is one of four Isis members from Gothenburg
and the nearby city of Borås judged as a continuing
threat to Sweden, alongside the convert Michael Skråmo,
Nader el Shaya, and Mohamud Saeed Adib.
Thomas Lindén, chairman of the ethics advisory panel
at Sweden's Läkarförbund doctors' union, said it was
wrong to expect doctors to consider anything apart medical needs when deciding
who to treat.
"We don't judge people. We provide care according to the medical need and
without looking at what a person is or what they have done," he told the
newspaper.
"We give care to rich and poor, to murderers and people sitting in prison.
If people need to be punished, there are other parts of society that can do it.
Healthcare should not become part of the apparatus of punishment."
Shahadeh's father said he had last had contact with
his son two months ago. "He's not here, he's down there, but we don't know
anything now," he said. "It's a tough situation, they don't have any
internet any more."
He did not expect his son, who has a wife and two children in Syria, to
willingly return to Sweden now
"I would like him to come here. I want to see my grandchildren," he
said. "But he refuses to come here. He thinks he will end up in prison
here in Sweden. He is so stubborn. I don't think he will give up."
ATTACKERS TARGET AFGHANISTAN HEALTH CENTERS 240 TIMES IN TWO
YEARS
BY LUCY WESTCOTT
3/6/17
Newsweek
Medical facilities in Afghanistan endured more than 240 attacks by armed groups
in 2015 and 2016, resulting in extensive damage to equipment and buildings,
deaths of staff members and patients and a worsening situation for the health
of the country's children.
Detailed in a report released Monday by Watchlist on Children and Armed
Conflict, the attacks were mainly carried out by the Taliban and other
anti-government groups. However, the Afghan National Defense and Security
Forces (ANDSF) also carried out more than 35 attacks, the group said, adding
that it wants U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to list the ANDSF as “one
of the parties responsible for the attack.”
The report focuses on four provinces: Kunduz, Nangarhar, Helmand and Maidan
Wardak. As of November 2016, more than 30 percent of Afghanistan did not have
access to health care, according to the country’s
Ministry of Public Health.
Violent attacks on medical facilities are making worse the dire state of health
care in Afghanistan, according to the report. Nearly five million people in the
country are in “critical need of health care,”
including more than a million children suffering from acute malnutrition—a
40 percent increase since January 2015. Measles rates have increased by 141
percent, and child casualties rose by 24 percent between 2015 and 2016,
according to the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Among
children, deaths from preventable diarrhea-related diseases and polio have also
increased, the report says.
“Targeted attacks on medical facilities have decimated Afghanistan’s
fragile health system, preventing many civilians from accessing life-saving
care,” Christine Monaghan, research officer at Watchlist and author of
the report, said in a statement on Monday. “Children suffer as a result we
are seeing more deaths, injuries and the spread of disease.”
The report also includes details of the October 2015 attack by U.S. forces on a
hospital in Kunduz, run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). Following an
investigation, the U.S. military called the hospital strike, which killed 30
people, a “tragic mistake.”
The group is calling on all parties—including Afghan
and international forces—to stop attacks on medical
facilities and personnel.
Hamas boasted it could hit Tel Aviv area while its own PM’s granddaughter
was in hospital there
Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petah Tikva,
which treats 200 Palestinian children each year, has had to take security
precautions against rocket attacks
BY ELHANAN MILLER
November 19, 2013
The Times of Israel
At the very moment the baby granddaughter of Hamas’s Gaza Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh was being treated for a critical illness at Schneider Children’s
Hospital near Tel Aviv Monday, a Hamas official boasted that his movement’s
rockets could hit targets in Israel past Tel Aviv.
Speaking to Hamas daily Al-Resalah, Gaza-based
official Salah Bardawil said that Hamas has improved
its rocket capabilities since Operation Pillar of Defense last year, and is now
able to hit targets beyond Israel’s commercial and cultural hub.
“The resistance now has various military surprises in addition to newly
acquired expertise,” Bardawil said. “[Hamas]
has improved its performance.”
During Operation Cast Lead in November 2012, Israel destroyed most of Hamas’s Fajr-5 rockets, obtained from Iran and able to
reach a distance of 75 kilometers (46 miles), covering the greater Tel Aviv
area. However, Hamas has been developing locally made M-75 rockets with a
similar range, one of which landed south of Jerusalem on the third day of the
military operation. Over 1,500 projectiles were launched into Israel from Gaza
over the course of the eight-day military operation.
Like other Israeli hospitals in the greater Tel Aviv area, Schneider Children’s Hospital, where Aamal
Haniyeh was admitted on Sunday with severe inflammation of the gastrointestinal
system, has been forced to take precautions against rocket attacks emanating
from Gaza.
Over the past few years, the hospital has reinforced its glass windows against
shattering and secured an oxygen supply to the basement in case of emergency
patient evacuation, hospital spokeswoman Riva Shaked told The Times of Israel
Tuesday.
Two hundred Palestinian children are treated at Schneider Hospital every year
on average, and 70 percent of them reside in Gaza, Shaked added.
“The Palestinian Authority pays the bill for their treatment,” she
said.
Following the news of the treatment in Israel of Aamal
Haniyeh, an Israeli government spokesman on Tuesday pointed out Hamas’s
cynicism.
“Ismail Haniyeh did not hesitate to send his granddaughter to an Israeli
hospital to save her life, all the while expressing his commitment to killing
Israelis,” tweeted Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman
to the Arab media for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This hypocrisy
indicates [Hamas's] savagery.”
Israel has increasingly been serving as an outlet for patients from Gaza since
Egypt tightened its closure of the Rafah Border Crossing in July. Egypt now
opens the border to civilian traffic only rarely and arbitrarily.
According to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, 395 Palestinian patients were
admitted to Israeli hospitals from Gaza for medical treatment in September, the
highest number allowed in since January 2011. An additional 593 patients from
Gaza were admitted to Palestinian hospitals is east Jerusalem. No data exists
yet for October or November.
Fadel Al-Mzaini, a medical researcher at Gaza’s Palestinian Center for Human Rights, said the number
of patients Israel allows to enter is still far lower than the need of the Strip’s population of 1.7 million.
“They [Israel] have indeed made it easier at the Erez
Crossing [between Gaza and Israel], but they only allow in patients who are
very seriously ill,” Al-Mzaini told The Times
of Israel. “They only allow in 20-25 patients a day and close the
crossing on weekends and Jewish holidays.”
On Sunday, the Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories,
known as COGAT, received a phone call from the Palestinian Authority’s
liaison office in Gaza requesting to admit Aamal
Haniyeh, 1, to an Israeli hospital, after her medical condition deteriorated.
The baby was immediately transferred to Israel, accompanied by her maternal
grandmother, and admitted to Schneider Children’s Hospital.
“She was brought into Israel, but returned to Gaza after her condition
could not be stabilized. She is in critical condition,” Major Guy Inbar,
a spokesman for COGAT, told The Times of Israel.
Last month, Prime Minister Haniyeh called for a popular uprising in the West
Bank and lauded recent terror attacks on the second anniversary of the release
of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by
Hamas in 2006.
No mention of the hospitalization was made on Hamas’s official media
outlets.
Algeria's Bouteflika in Paris after 'having mini-stroke'
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been flown to hospital
in Paris after suffering a mini-stroke, the state news agency has said.
28 April 2013
BBC
Mr Bouteflika, 76, had a "transient
ischemia" - a temporary blockage of a blood vessel often called a
mini-stroke - an official told the APS news agency.
Doctors said on Sunday that he was "progressing well" and the damage
was "not irreversible".
Mr Bouteflika is being treated at the Val de Grace
military hospital.
It is commonly used by high-profile patients from France and beyond.
Mr Bouteflika's doctor, Rachid Bougherbal,
said: "The transient ischemic attack did not last long and the condition
is reversible. His state of health is progressing well."
Dr Bougherbal said Mr
Bouteflika had "complete balance" and was "recovering some of
the fatigue caused by the ailment".
'Cancer' report
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal
echoed Dr Bougherbal's assurances that there was no
need for concern.
Mr Bouteflika, who makes few public appearances,
underwent surgery in hospital in Paris several years ago.
Officially the problem was a stomach ulcer, but a leaked US diplomatic cable
suggested he had cancer.
In spite of his age and apparently failing health, there are still those who
believe Mr Bouteflika could stand for a fourth term
in office in elections scheduled for next year.
He is part of an ageing leadership which has dominated Algerian politics since
the country gained independence from France more than 50 years ago.
Saudi Arabia: King Has Surgery
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 24, 2010
King Abdullah successfully underwent back surgery at New York Presbyterian
Hospital, according to a palace statement on Wednesday. Abdullah, 86, flew to
New York for medical treatment on Tuesday with a slipped disk and a blood clot
pressing on the nerves in his back. He temporarily handed control of the
kingdom to his half brother, Crown Prince Sultan. The
king had “back surgery, in which the blood clot was extracted, the
slipped disk was corrected, and the injured vertebrae was stabilized,”
the Saudi Press Agency quoted the statement as saying.
Saudi royals shot in arm for home of Mayo Clinic
November 17, 2008
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) Rochester officials say members of Saudi Arabia's royal
family spent enough during a visit to the Mayo Clinic to give the area's
economy a shot in the arm.
City officials say Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz
arrived in the Minnesota city on Nov. 15 for a checkup at the Mayo Clinic and
was accompanied by at least five princes and hundreds of others.
The king left Wednesday, but some members of his group remain in Rochester.
Rochester Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director Brad Jones says a
conservative estimate of the royal family's spending is up to $1.5 million.
Officials say that should offset the area's economic woes. Jones calls that a
"great shot in the arm."
Formerly conjoined Egyptian twins happy and back in U.S.
DAILY NEWS STAFF
Tuesday, October 9th 2007
DALLAS When they were born, conjoined twins Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim were
happy regardless of being attached at the head. Now, four years after their
separation, the smiles have not left their faces.
The 6-year-old Egyptian boys have returned to Dallas, where they were separated
in October 2003, to be evaluated to see how their brains have developed.
"These boys to me represent the culmination of a very long journey, where
they are arriving at what we all envisioned would be a possibility, but it
turns out to be a reality," said Dr. Kenneth Salyer, chairman and founder
of the nonprofit World Craniofacial Foundation, which brought the boys across
the Atlantic for evaluation last week.
"But just from looking at these boys, I'm very pleased with how they've
done," Salyer said. "They've made tremendous progress."
The pair have been accompanied by their mother, Sabah Abu el-Wafa. Their father and two older siblings remained in
Egypt.
While in Dallas, they appeared at a fundraiser for the World Craniofacial
Foundation along with another set of conjoined twins. They will also make a
trip to Arizona for an MRI.
The surgery to separate them in 2003 took 34-hours and required them to stay in
Dallas for another two years in order for their skulls to be reconstructed.
They returned to Egypt in November 2005.
Extremist cleric to return for free heart operation
DAILY MAIL
10/08/05 - News section
Hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed may undergo heart surgery in an NHS hospital
if he returns to the UK.
Bakri, who says he has a congenital heart problem, has already missed several
appointments or had them postponed, friends said, but another one is likely to
be scheduled before the end of the year.
The so-called "Tottenham Ayatollah" is currently in Lebanon but says
he plans to return to the UK in a month's time.
That would allow him to have a free operation which would otherwise cost
thousands of pounds privately.
Bakri's health problem is understood to involve the narrowing of arteries in
his heart and the likeliest operation is an angioplasty.
More than 20,000 of the operations are carried out by doctors in the UK every
year.
His condition is believed to be exacerbated by his weight.
Friends say that, because he is missing a bone in his ankle, he is unable to
exercise and that has contributed to the narrowing of his coronary arteries.
£30,000 car
Earlier this year the father-of-seven, who uses a walking stick, took delivery
of a £30,000 Ford Galaxy people carrier paid for under the Motability
scheme.
He is estimated to have received several hundred thousand pounds in benefits
during his two decades in the UK.
It is not clear which hospital Bakri would have his treatment at and hospitals
refused to discuss confidential patient details.
But Anjem Choudary, another leading figure in the al-Muhajiroun movement, said: "He had an appointment for
a heart operation at some point. I'm not sure exactly when.
"He had appointments before but he missed them - he doesn't like to take medicine, he likes to recover naturally.
"He has a congenital problem he has had the whole of his life. It's a problem
with his arteries but I'm not a doctor so I don't know exactly."
Bakri, who had his mobile phone turned off today, sparked outrage last week by
saying he would not inform police if he knew Muslim extremists were planning a
bomb attack in Britain.
He left for Beirut amid suggestions that he could be tried for treason but the
Government has since made clear there is no prospect of that.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott admitted there was nothing to stop the
firebrand cleric coming and going at the moment from the UK.
But a review of the Home Secretary's powers to exclude people who promote
terrorism could be complete by the time Bakri heads home, allowing him to be
barred.
Tory leader Michael Howard argued that present powers were already sufficient
to keep Bakri out and he called on the Government to use those powers
"without delay".
"The Home Secretary has the power to exclude from this country people
whose presence here is not conducive to the public good," he said.
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