Head of state ‘funded al-Qaeda and knew of 7/7 terror attacks’

On Friday night lawyers for the claimant threatened The Daily Telegraph with
an injunction, but failed to make any application.

The decision by the committee to post the claims on the parliamentary website,
represents another challenge to the supremacy of the courts after
injunctions involving Ryan Giggs, the footballer, and Sir Fred Goodwin, the
banker, were also exposed by MPs.

According to Mr Burby the super-injunction governed six general areas
including “information/allegations concerning any personal relationship of
any kind between the claimant and a man who is not her ex-husband”.

The gagging order covered any “information/allegations” relating to the
ex-wife’s attempt to secure payment of monies owed by her family, as well as
“any allegation that the claimant was involved in or responsible for” a
murder, he says.

Mr Burby said he felt compelled to provide the information to Parliament’s
joint committee on privacy and injunctions after Kenneth Clarke, the Lord
Chancellor, had told MPs and peers that super-injunctions “are now being
granted only for very short periods” and “you cannot have just long-running
secret litigation”.

Mr Burby said: “That of course is incorrect as the super-injunction against me
has been in place since Sept 9 2009. None of the interim rulings made by the
judges in these proceedings have been published, even in an anonymised or
redacted form.”

John Whittingdale, the committee’s chairman, said on Friday that Mr Burby’s
evidence was an “interesting and relevant submission”, given that his
committee had been told by judges that the super-injunctions were now
“time-limited” only.

“The points he makes are valid,” he said. “It is very difficult for him to
make those points without some reference to his own position.”

Mr Burby set out other allegations, published on the committee’s website, that
he said were “pleaded by the claimant as being private and/or confidential
but that are not expressly covered by the terms of the super-injunction (but
are impliedly covered by it)”.

They included “that the claimant’s ex-husband, as a head of state, sympathised
with and supported Islamic fundamentalists; that the claimant knew or
suspected from conversations with her ex-husband that there would be major
terrorist attacks on the UK (7/7) and Israel.

“That the claimant’s ex-­husband flew a senior member of al-Qaeda to the
country of which he is head of state and gave him substantial funding for
al-Qaeda.”

Mr Burby raised a number of other allegations and said that if these were
untrue, “then the proper course is for the claimant to sue in defamation”.

He added: “The claimant has been using her immense wealth to harass and bully
people with overpowering UK legal process under the protection of a web of
interlocking super-injunctions.

“The claimant boasted to a member of staff (who has provided a witness
statement) about the assassination of an opponent engaged in litigation
against her in another jurisdiction and saying that ‘Burby’ was next.”

News of the gagging order is the latest in a series that have allowed
celebrities to cover up sexual scandals using super-injunctions, the very
existence of which cannot be reported.

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