Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Meanwhile - in the United Kingdom
This article may make you think that the world has gone crazy; or at least, the United Kingdom...
Tom Kelly reports in the U.K. Daily Mail Online:
"Fanatical cleric Abu Qatada is to receive almost £8,000 a year in benefits because he has a bad back.
The suspected Al Qaeda leader, described as Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe, will get £150 a week of taxpayer's cash after being released from jail last week.
Astonishingly, he was granted the incapacity benefit because his back condition makes him unfit to work, even though he is only allowed out of his home for two hours a day, meaning it would be almost impossible for him to get a job.
Qatada left Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire after the Appeal Court blocked his deportation to Jordan, where he is wanted on terror charges.
He is now living in an £800,000 four bedroom Edwardian semi in a tree lined suburban street in West London."
