FILE - In this Tuesday, April 17, 2012 file photo, Abu Qatada is driven away after being refused bail at a hearing at London's Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which handles deportation and security cases, in London. A radical Islamist cleric accused in British and Spanish courts of being a senior al-Qaida figure is asking a London court to halt his extradition to Jordan, something British authorities have sought for a decade. Abu Qatada is taking his case Wednesday Oct. 10, 2012 to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which handles deportation and national security cases. He has fought attempts to extradite him since 2001, arguing that he could be tortured in Jordan, or could be tried using evidence obtained by torture. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, April 17, 2012 file photo, Abu Qatada is driven away after being refused bail at a hearing at London's Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which handles deportation and security cases, in London. A radical Islamist cleric accused in British and Spanish courts of being a senior al-Qaida figure is asking a London court to halt his extradition to Jordan, something British authorities have sought for a decade. Abu Qatada is taking his case Wednesday Oct. 10, 2012 to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which handles deportation and national security cases. He has fought attempts to extradite him since 2001, arguing that he could be tortured in Jordan, or could be tried using evidence obtained by torture. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
LONDON (AP) ? A diplomat says Britain asked Jordan to pardon radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada because evidence used to convict him there had been obtained through torture.
Britain is seeking to extradite the cleric, who has been accused of ties to al-Qaida, and has sought assurances he will not be mistreated in Jordan. Abu Qatada is appealing an extradition order before a special immigration tribunal.
The cleric, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, has been convicted in absentia in Jordan over bomb plots and faces retrial if extradited.
Anthony Layden, a former British ambassador to Libya and a specialist in negotiating diplomatic guarantees, told the tribunal Thursday that British officials sought a pardon because evidence against Abu Qatada had been obtained by torture.
He said Jordanian officials declined.
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