Abu Qatada al-Filistini ( AH-boo kə-TAH-də; Arabic: أبو قتادة الفلسطيني, ’Abū Qatāda al-Filisṭīnī [the Palestinian]), born Omar Mahmoud Othman (Arabic: عمر بن محمود بن عثمان ‘Umar ibn Maḥmūd ibn ‘Uṯmān) in 1959/1960, is a Salafi cleric and Jordanian national. Qatada was accused of having links to terrorist organizations, and frequently imprisoned in the United Kingdom without formal charges or prosecution before being deported to Jordan, where courts found him innocent of multiple terrorism charges. Wikipedia