Afghans win right to stay in UK

From The BBC

The headline should read "Hijackers win right to stay in UK". But, as usual, the BBC like to be nice to these terrorists. Just look at the first paragraph of the article.

Nine Afghan men arrested after a hijacking incident at Stansted Airport have won the right to stay in the UK.

"Nine Afghan men" and "hijacking incident"? They were hijackers and it was a hijacking not an incident! The BBC downplay this like it was a traffic violation. Passengers were held and terrorized for more than 3 days!

The original trial of the men was told that during the three-day stand-off at Stansted Airport in February 2000 they had threatened to kill passengers and crew.

So what happended to these hijackers?

They were jailed in 2001 for hijacking an Afghan Ariana Boeing 727.

But in June 2003 the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions because a mistake was made in directing the jury.

Released on a technicality. And what happens now?

A hearing has found though the Home Office was right to refuse asylum, the men should not have faced deportation to Afghanistan.

A spokeswoman for the Home Office said the Immigration Appellate Authority had ruled that the men would be in danger of attack from members of the Taleban if they were deported.

Hold on a minute. I thought...

But under the Home Office's own rules, failed asylum seekers from Afghanistan can only be returned if they are from the region of the capital, Kabul.

Isn't that where they came from?

Reports from Kabul of links between the passengers and hijackers - including suggestions that 40 of them were from the same family - increased speculation that the whole incident was an organised bid for political asylum.

And what happended to all that lot?
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