MINISTERS will face fresh calls to change their anti-terror strategy today after a preacher once dubbed "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" was granted bail.
Abu Qatada, who last month defeated the Government's efforts to deport him to Jordan, will be released from prison within weeks but subjected to a 22-hour curfew.
Among those who helped fund the bail was British former Iraq hostage Norman Kember,
whose release the preacher called for in a video filmed in prison.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she was "extremely disappointed" at Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) decision but that "all steps necessary" would be taken to protect the public.
She is appealing against the decision not to deport him. But the Tories said the latest blow from the courts had further undermined the Government's approach to oversees suspects and demanded a change.
"They should establish a dedicated UK Border Police to prevent foreign suspects from entering the country in the first place," shadow home secretary David Davis said.
Qatada has been convicted in his absence in Jordan of involvement with terror attacks in 1998.
The radical cleric once called on British Muslims to martyr themselves, and tapes of his sermons were found in a flat used by some of the September 11 hijackers.
The full article contains 226 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
