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Radical cleric Abu Qatada is expected to be deported to Jordan overnight to stand trial on terrorism charges.
He is due to board a military plane in the UK, which will take him back to his home country, in the early hours.
His deportation was approved after the UK and Jordan signed a treaty agreeing that evidence obtained through torture would not be used against him.
The legal battle to deport Qatada has lasted almost 10 years and has cost the UK more than £1.7m ($2.5m).
The 53-year-old cleric will be driven out of London's Belmarsh Prison on Saturday evening and taken to a waiting plane at RAF Northolt, in west London, the BBC understands.
He has not returned to Jordan since he fled to the UK 20 years ago.
The Palestinian-Jordanian, whose real name is Omar Othman, lost his appeal against deportation at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) in February 2007.
But he then appealed to higher courts on the grounds that evidence extracted through torture would be used against him in Jordan, where he faces a retrial for plotting bomb attacks.
That legal battle continued until May this year, when the cleric accepted that his right to a fair trial there was protected by the new treaty between Jordan and the UK.
He agreed to drop his legal challenge, paving the way for his deportation.
The final administrative procedures needed to ratify the treaty - which included an exchange of diplomatic letters between the UK and Jordan and the publication of the treaty in the Jordanian government's Official Gazette - have now been completed.
Qatada is being held at Belmarsh after breaching a bail condition in March which restricted his use of mobile phones and other communication devices.
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