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Priti Patel speaking at Jewish News-BICOM s Israel Policy Conference
The government has failed in its latest bid to deny refugee status to a man who wrote a foreword for a book arguing Jews should be killed.
Officials at the Home Office had sought to deny Yasser Al-Siri asylum, whom they argued could be a “danger to the security of the United Kingdom”, and instead grant him restricted leave to remain for six months. This would have required him to obtain written permission from Home Secretary Priti Patel before moving house, starting a job, or studying.
But in a ruling published last week, judges at the Court of Appeal decided that fresh claims of extremism advanced by the government were not sufficient to overturn a 2015 tribunal decision in Al-Siri’s favour.
Somali Head of National Security Agency and 13 Troops Killed in IED Blast
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Photo of earlier roadside bombing by al-Shabaab in Somalia
At least 13 Somali troops were killed in a roadside bombing when their vehicle hit an IED. They were part of a military intelligence unit’s convoy.
The convoy had been traveling near the town of Dhusamareeb in Galmudug State. Among the killed troops was Abdirashid Abdinur, the commander of the National Security Agency (NISA) in Dhusamareb district, located about 250 miles north of the capital of Mogadishu.
“We are getting terrible reports that 13 security men are all killed in the blast which destroyed their vehicle in the Galmudug province,” said General Masud Mohamud.
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Britain repeatedly turned down Egyptian requests to extradite an extremist sheltering in London who was later linked to the murder of a leading anti-Taliban commander two days before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, newly-released documents from the 1990s show.
Yasser Al Sirri applied for political asylum in the UK in April 1994, the month after he was sentenced to death in his native Egypt for his alleged involvement in a failed bombing targeting then prime minister Atef Sidqi.
British government documents from the 1990s released on Wednesday show that Egyptian authorities repeatedly asked for the return of Mr Al Sirri to face punishment and expressed scepticism that the UK could properly monitor extremists on its soil.