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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 on Wednesday when Britain’s highest court ruled that he could be deported to Jordan.
The preacher, known as Abu Qatada, was convicted in absentia by Jordanian courts in a terrorist bombing and a bomb plot in the 1990s. His lawyers argue that he should not be sent there because he might be tortured. But the British government considers him a security risk because he has called on British Muslims to become martyrs and because of his suspected links to al-Qaeda.
