UK passport victory for terror suspect Hilal al-Jedda

A terror suspect accused of targeting British troops in Iraq today won a legal victory which clears the way for him to return to Britain from his current home in Turkey.

Iraqi-born Hilal al-Jedda was awarded a British passport in 2000 but was stripped of his nationality seven years later after being held in Baghdad over his alleged involvement in arms smuggling and bomb attacks.

The Home Office said the decision to remove his citizenship was conducive to the public good because of the potential danger that he would pose.

Today, however, al-Jedda won the right to reclaim his passport — and potentially return to the UK — after the Supreme Court ruled that he would be left stateless without it.

It said the reason was that he had automatically lost his original Iraqi citizenship when he was awarded his UK passport in 2000 and that it was a breach of UN policy and the Home Office’s own guidelines to leave a person stateless.

After his release by coalition forces, al-Jedda entered Turkey on a fake passport.