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host · 03-13-2005, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by NCB

More great news on the war on terror!!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005112438,00.html

These miserbale POS will undoubtedly be responsible for future deaths. They are committed to the destruction of the West and Israel. The only question is when and where. But will I blame them? No, not at all. We know they are animals and will kill when given a chance. The blood that will be shed in the future will be on the hands of a more dangerous movt: radical liberalism

Here is a less sensationalist report on this situation than the one offered by
thesun.co.uk :

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<a href="http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=269882005">http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=269882005</a>
Home secretary uses new powers as terror suspects are freed from Belmarsh

KAREN MCVEIGH

THE Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, wielded his new anti-terrorism powers for the first time last night, signing ten control orders for the foreign suspects being held in Britain without trial, eight of whom were released on bail yesterday.

Among those released yesterday was the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, who has been linked to the Madrid train bombing that killed 191 people a year ago yesterday, and described by the commission that freed him as a "truly dangerous individual".

He was one of five suspects released from Belmarsh prison. Three others were freed from Broadmoor yesterday. A ninth suspect, A, was released on Thursday, and a tenth, G, was freed last month.

Before the new law came into effect last night, the suspects were initially subject to a series of stringent bail conditions imposed by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) yesterday.

These restricted their movements and communication with others and required them to keep in constant contact with the Home Office, police and a company which will monitor them.

The terms of the new control orders are thought to be similar to the bail conditions hammered out by Home Office lawyers and defence teams at SIAC.

These required the men to be fitted with electronic tags, to remain in their homes between 7pm and 7am. They are not allowed to have visitors to their homes without prior notification to the Home Office. Those with children are allowed visitors under the age of 16.

A further condition, which banned any preaching or leading prayers in the mosque, was applied to Mr Qatada. The preacher’s sermons were alleged by David Blunkett, the former home secretary, to have been "an inspiration" for terrorists, including Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker behind the 11 September attacks.

However, under the bill, Mr Clarke will also have available to him a range of additional restrictive powers over the detainees, including: inhibition of their movements to, from or within the UK; prohibition of their movement for 24 hours; a power to require them to provide information to a "specified person"; and powers requiring them to report to a specified person at specified times and places. The SIAC process may be sidelined completely as the bill becomes law.

Last night, a terrorism expert warned that such conditions would be ineffective against those seriously involved in terrorist activities.

Professor Paul Wilkinson, of the University of St Andrews, said terrorists "have ways of communicating with and organising other members of their group". He made fresh demands for such suspects to be tried in court. .............