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• Abu Qatada released from prison

  2 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  The radical Abu Qatada has variously been described as a «truly dangerous individual» and a «key UK figure» in al-Qaida-related activity by those in anti-terrorist circles who have studied his work and words. Qatada, who was released from prison last night on strict bail conditions including a 22-hour curfew, became one of the UK’s most wanted men in December 2001, when he went on the run on the eve of government moves to introduce new anti-terror laws allowing suspects to be detained without charge or trial.

• ’Bomb plot’ wife gave false name

  2 July 2008, by BBC
  A suspected airline bomb plotter’s wife has told a jury she gave police a false name and lied to protect her fugitive husband’s identity. Zora Siddique said she had initially given her cousin’s name to officers and had failed to reveal Mohammed Gulzar’s identity because he was a wanted man. Prosecutors allege that Mr Gulzar and others plotted to smuggle liquid bombs disguised as drinks on to planes.

• Counter terrorism chief praises Scottish approach

  2 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  SNP Home Affairs spokesperson, Pete Wishart MP, has welcomed comments by the Director-General of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism praising Scotland’s community cohesion and ability to prevent young people becoming radicalised and joining terror groups. In an interview, Charles Farr, said: «I think the nature of communities in Scotland is discernibly different from the nature of communities south of the border. You have an ability to reach in and develop a strategy of this kind.»

• Muslims may not have to undergo sniffer dog checks in UK

  2 July 2008, by Times of India
  Muslim passengers may not be touched by sniffer dogs of the British Transport Police after complaints that the practice is against Islam. According to the religion, dogs are deemed to be spiritually «unclean». A Transport Department report has raised the prospect that animals should only touch passengers’ luggage because it is considered «more acceptable», the Daily Express reported.

• Crown presents strong e-mail evidence in Khawaja case

  2 July 2008, by News Agencies
  The strongest evidence in the case of the first man charged under Canada’s antiterrorism act was revealed in court – emails he wrote over the course of a year prior to his arrest. Mohammad Mowin Khawaja, 29, wrote messages to conspirators in Britain referring to detonation devices, routing recruits to a house in Pakistan, as well as ways to send money and night-vision goggles to insurgents in Afghanistan.

• More money invested to tackle radicalisation

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  New guidance to help and support local authorities, schools, community groups and the police in tackling violent extremism and prevent radicalisation in communities was launched on Tuesday by the government. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls rolled out their counter terrorism strategy which hopes to prevent people getting involved with violent extremism.

• Terror law to allow 42-day detention opposed by MPs

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  The government is unveiling a major new package of a counter-terrorism laws, a plan that gives the right to detain terrorist suspects for upto 42 days without charge. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is understood to have outlined concessions and appealed to MPs not to inflict further damage on the Government after a series of election disasters and policy U-turns. Under long-awaited changes to the Counter-Terrorism Bill, Home Secretary Miss Smith revealed the power to detain suspects without charge would only be used in the face of a «grave, exceptional terrorist threat» to Britain.

• UK terror suspect says bomb plans were stunt

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  A man has denied leading a plot to cause mass murder by blowing planes out of the sky with the excuse that he had meant instead to explode small devices inside the Houses of Parliament as part of a publicity stunt. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, said that suicide videos which the prosecution claims prove a plot to bomb seven planes flying to North America were in fact made as part of a «propaganda» documentary planned for release after the small explosions in Westminster.

• London bombs home-made from pharmacy ingredients

  1 July 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  Explosives found by detectives investigating the London bombings were home-made using ingredients that can be found in high street chemists. The highly volatile explosive - acetone peroxide - has been discovered in a house in Leeds thought to have been used as a bomb-making factory. The discovery has raised fears of other British fanatics making their own explosives and following the example of the London suicide bombers.

• Islamic fanatics are openly using the internet to recruit children in Britain, says Civitas

  1 July 2008, by Mail on Sunday
  Islamic extremists in Britain are openly trying to recruit children via the internet, a report warns.

• The impact of migration from the new European Union Member States on native workers

  17 June 2008, by Lemos Sara, Portes Jonathan
  Migrants coming to the UK from Eastern Europe have not caused unemployment or stopped UK workers from finding jobs, according to research published today. The research, ‘The impact of migration from the new European Union Member States on native workers’ concludes that new migrants have not had an impact on the numbers claiming unemployment benefits in the UK, or had a significant impact on wages.

• Terror deportation: Lecturers petition home secretary

  10 June 2008, by Education Guardian
  The University and College Union (UCU) today protested to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, against the deportation of a Nottingham University administrator caught up in a police investigation of terrorist literature. Hicham Yezza, who was working as an administrator at the university, was arrested for printing out a copy of the widely available al-Qaida training manual for his friend, Rizwaan Sabir.

• Top Police Chief: ’We Must Start Negotiating with Al Qaeda now to Stop Terror’

  10 June 2008, by Evening Standard
  A police chief was slapped down by the Government yesterday for suggesting Britain could open talks with Al Qaeda. Sir Hugh Orde, head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said he knew of no terror campaign that had not ended with negotiation. And he said his 30 years spent tackling the IRA had convinced him that security work and arrests were not enough to defeat terrorists.

• New plan to tackle violent extremism: Mentors to be drafted in to help reverse the process of radicalisation

  10 June 2008, by Travis Alan
  A nationwide «deradicalisation» programme is being developed to tackle people who have been drawn into Islamist violent extremism in Britain, the government will reveal today. The Home Office said the strategy was needed to help bring back those who had «already crossed the line» in terms of ideology and outlook, but not yet committed any clear criminal offence.

• TERRORISM TRIAL: Suspect admits Heathrow blast plan: I expect to go to jail, says airline bomb plot ’ringleader’

  10 June 2008, by The Guardian
  The alleged leader of a gang of eight men accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic planes in mid-air today told a court his intentions had been «taken out of proportion». Abdulla Ahmed Ali said he expected to go to prison for planning to detonate a device at Heathrow airport’s terminal three.

• Abu Hamza fighting extradition

  4 June 2008, by The Muslim Weekly
  Radical «cleric» Abu Hamza has launched a High Court battle against extradition to the US to face terror charges. He is wanted for allegedly trying to set up an al-Qa’ida training camp in Oregon. He is also claimed to have helped the gang who kidnapped Western tourists in Yemen in 1998, killing three Britons. But his lawyers are arguing extradition should be blocked because evidence gained by torture was being used against him.

• July 7 plot accused tell of times with Taliban

  4 June 2008, by The Guardian
  A British Muslim accused of helping the July 7 bombers plot their attacks on London told a court yesterday how he and ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan spent time at a Taliban camp in Afghanistan as part of a jihad training trip. Taking the stand for the first time, Waheed Ali, 25, denied participating in the attacks but admitted travelling with Khan on a «gallivant» in the summer of 2001, shortly before the September 11 attacks, and after attending a camp on the Kashmir border where they learned to shoot Kalashnikovs.

• Towards common principles relating to the protection of privacy rights ? An analysis of recent developments in England and France and before the European Court of Human Rights

  2 juin 2008, par Delany Hilary, Murphy Cliohna
  Une comparaison de la protection de la vie privée, telle qu’elle est assurée en Angleterre, en France et par la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme, témoigne d’une similitude croissante de méthodologie et de terminologie par les Cours d’Angleterre et de Strasbourg : elles se livrent à un exercice d’équilibrage entre le droit à la protection de la vie privée et le respect de la liberté d’expression (art.8 et 10 de la Cour européenne) ; les juridictions françaises prennent de plus en plus la même orientation.

• British Home Office statistics on Citizenship and Asylum

  28 May 2008, by UK Home Office
  The number of people claiming asylum in Britain has jumped by 16% in a year, official government figures revealed today. Record numbers of people are also being granted British citizenship, the Home Office said.

• Floodgates or turnstiles? Post-EU enlargement migration flows to (and from) the UK

  19 May 2008, by Institute -for -Public -Policy -Research (IPPR)
  To mark the fourth anniversary of the enlargement of the European Union in 2004, IPPR has undertaken a major study that aims to provide as definitive a picture of post-enlargement migration flows to and from the UK as possible. This report presents fresh evidence on the scale and nature of migration from the eight new Central and Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and, to a lesser extent, from Romania and Bulgaria, which joined in 2007.

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