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09-13-2010, 06:16 PM
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WE LOSE SEVEN UK TERROR SUSPECTS
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Police have failed to keep tabs on Al Qaeda hotheads
Sunday September 12,2010
By James Murray
SEVEN terror suspects who ought to have been under strict control orders have disappeared.
A huge police (http://www.express.co.uk/search/police/) effort has failed to find any trace of the fugitives, all of whom were believed to be involved in terrorist activity.
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They were living under curfews, banned from using the internet and from associating with anyone sympathetic to the teachings of Osama bin Laden. (http://www.express.co.uk/search/Osama%20bin%20Laden/)
One is thought to have fled to Pakistan to train other extremists.
Intelligence chiefs fear Al Qaeda will target Britain during the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. And now the men’s disappearance has exposed the lax monitoring of those who are suspected of being a threat to our country and its citizens.
As the world yesterday marked the ninth anniversary of the September 11 Al Qaeda attacks on America, the Government was under pressure to get a grip of the chaotic system.
Research fellow Robin Simcox has written a devastating report on the fiasco for the think-tank the Centre for Social Cohesion.
Although he argues the current system is not perfect, he says it is vital and needs improving rather than ditching, as the Tories and Liberal Democrats suggest.
Mr Simcox said: “The control order system is flawed with legal disputes and changes in legislation. However, at a time of a heightened terrorist threat, it is a useful tool.
“Rather than weakening the national security structure, politicians should be strengthening the state’s ability to reduce the threat.“Yet both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats have called for the potential abolition of control orders, which would have the opposite effect.”
The controversial orders were introduced in 2005 to impose restrictions on people to “prevent or limit their involvement in suspected terrorist activities”. The suspects could not be deported because they claimed they would be tortured in their homelands and could not be prosecuted because evidence against them was gathered using secret intelligence.
About 45 orders were issued and it is understood 12 are still in force.
Courts and the Government have decided that individuals should not be named, although it is known that the radical preacher Abu Qatada was on a control order before being sent back to prison.
The Sunday Express can reveal that Faraj Hassan al-Saadi, 38, described as “European envoy” of Musab al-Zarqawi, former head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, was on another.
Libyan-born al-Saadi was wanted in Italy, where he was alleged to be involved in a plot to blow up a church, a claim he denied.
Held in prison for several years without charge, he was released on a control order but was killed in a motorbike accident in London, where he was well known among radical Muslims.
Others given orders include:
A member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, convicted in Morocco of offences relating to 2003 bombings in Casablanca.
An Ethiopian suspected of undertaking terrorist training in Somalia, associated with the failed 21/7 suicide bomb plot in London in 2005.
Zeeshan Siddiqui, who attended a training camp in Pakistan with the 7/7 London suicide bombers. He escaped his order by jumping out of a psychiatric unit window.
Mr Simcox says in his report that two control orders were revoked because the Government chose not to comply with human rights law on disclosing information. Three other orders were quashed and two were not renewed as being unnecessary.
WE LOSE SEVEN UK TERROR SUSPECTS
http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/199039_1.jpg
Police have failed to keep tabs on Al Qaeda hotheads
Sunday September 12,2010
By James Murray
SEVEN terror suspects who ought to have been under strict control orders have disappeared.
A huge police (http://www.express.co.uk/search/police/) effort has failed to find any trace of the fugitives, all of whom were believed to be involved in terrorist activity.
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They were living under curfews, banned from using the internet and from associating with anyone sympathetic to the teachings of Osama bin Laden. (http://www.express.co.uk/search/Osama%20bin%20Laden/)
One is thought to have fled to Pakistan to train other extremists.
Intelligence chiefs fear Al Qaeda will target Britain during the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. And now the men’s disappearance has exposed the lax monitoring of those who are suspected of being a threat to our country and its citizens.
As the world yesterday marked the ninth anniversary of the September 11 Al Qaeda attacks on America, the Government was under pressure to get a grip of the chaotic system.
Research fellow Robin Simcox has written a devastating report on the fiasco for the think-tank the Centre for Social Cohesion.
Although he argues the current system is not perfect, he says it is vital and needs improving rather than ditching, as the Tories and Liberal Democrats suggest.
Mr Simcox said: “The control order system is flawed with legal disputes and changes in legislation. However, at a time of a heightened terrorist threat, it is a useful tool.
“Rather than weakening the national security structure, politicians should be strengthening the state’s ability to reduce the threat.“Yet both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats have called for the potential abolition of control orders, which would have the opposite effect.”
The controversial orders were introduced in 2005 to impose restrictions on people to “prevent or limit their involvement in suspected terrorist activities”. The suspects could not be deported because they claimed they would be tortured in their homelands and could not be prosecuted because evidence against them was gathered using secret intelligence.
About 45 orders were issued and it is understood 12 are still in force.
Courts and the Government have decided that individuals should not be named, although it is known that the radical preacher Abu Qatada was on a control order before being sent back to prison.
The Sunday Express can reveal that Faraj Hassan al-Saadi, 38, described as “European envoy” of Musab al-Zarqawi, former head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, was on another.
Libyan-born al-Saadi was wanted in Italy, where he was alleged to be involved in a plot to blow up a church, a claim he denied.
Held in prison for several years without charge, he was released on a control order but was killed in a motorbike accident in London, where he was well known among radical Muslims.
Others given orders include:
A member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, convicted in Morocco of offences relating to 2003 bombings in Casablanca.
An Ethiopian suspected of undertaking terrorist training in Somalia, associated with the failed 21/7 suicide bomb plot in London in 2005.
Zeeshan Siddiqui, who attended a training camp in Pakistan with the 7/7 London suicide bombers. He escaped his order by jumping out of a psychiatric unit window.
Mr Simcox says in his report that two control orders were revoked because the Government chose not to comply with human rights law on disclosing information. Three other orders were quashed and two were not renewed as being unnecessary.