Muslims and Other Foreigners
The Home Secretary has ordered the extradition of a British man to a state which practises torture, imprisons people without trial and shows definite tendencies to authoritarianism, theocracy, military aggression and flagrant disregard for international law.
It isn't Libya; that was last month. The victim in that case was Libyan, not British, and Libya has signed a "memorandum of understanding" which prevents Tony's new chum, Colonel Gadafy, from doing anything nasty to people we deport there; so that was all right.
In the present case, the United States embassy has provided a "diplomatic note" saying that the deportee, Babar Ahmad, will not be executed if he is convicted. Of course he won't. And, of course, he won't be held in Guatánamo Bay as an "enemy combatant". Of course he won't. The Bush regime says he won't, so of course he won't.
Ahmad is a designated terror suspect, as opposed to a fully-paid-up Briton, because the US alleges that he used internet sites and email to raise money in support of terrorism in Chechnya and Afghanistan. The British police arrested him in December 2003 but, doubtless because of the accursed less-than-ninety-days rule, had to release him without charge on an unsuspecting world. He was re-arrested in August 2004 because that was what the US wanted. Makes you proud.
Elsewhere, the former head of MI5 has offered qualified support for the Home Secretary's identity card scheme, which Tony has been selling, for indefinite and ever-rising amounts of public money, as the weapon of mass destruction that will bring the the wars on crime, terror, benefit claimants, terror, asylum seekers, terror, hooded people, terror etc. within measurable distance of their end.
Dame Stella Rimington said that the cards would be of use if they could be made impossible to forge. I'm sure the Home Secretary will take this on board. "If we had ID cards at great expense and people can go into back rooms and forge them," Dame Stella added, "they will not make us any safer." Military Intelligence in Britain is occasionally the province of the brightest and the best, I am told.
Dame Stella also informed her audience of the reason why "all foreigners, particularly Muslims" would not be treated as potential terrorists by the intelligence services. "For one thing, she said, there simply were not enough resources to take such an approach." Makes you proud.
It isn't Libya; that was last month. The victim in that case was Libyan, not British, and Libya has signed a "memorandum of understanding" which prevents Tony's new chum, Colonel Gadafy, from doing anything nasty to people we deport there; so that was all right.
In the present case, the United States embassy has provided a "diplomatic note" saying that the deportee, Babar Ahmad, will not be executed if he is convicted. Of course he won't. And, of course, he won't be held in Guatánamo Bay as an "enemy combatant". Of course he won't. The Bush regime says he won't, so of course he won't.
Ahmad is a designated terror suspect, as opposed to a fully-paid-up Briton, because the US alleges that he used internet sites and email to raise money in support of terrorism in Chechnya and Afghanistan. The British police arrested him in December 2003 but, doubtless because of the accursed less-than-ninety-days rule, had to release him without charge on an unsuspecting world. He was re-arrested in August 2004 because that was what the US wanted. Makes you proud.
Elsewhere, the former head of MI5 has offered qualified support for the Home Secretary's identity card scheme, which Tony has been selling, for indefinite and ever-rising amounts of public money, as the weapon of mass destruction that will bring the the wars on crime, terror, benefit claimants, terror, asylum seekers, terror, hooded people, terror etc. within measurable distance of their end.
Dame Stella Rimington said that the cards would be of use if they could be made impossible to forge. I'm sure the Home Secretary will take this on board. "If we had ID cards at great expense and people can go into back rooms and forge them," Dame Stella added, "they will not make us any safer." Military Intelligence in Britain is occasionally the province of the brightest and the best, I am told.
Dame Stella also informed her audience of the reason why "all foreigners, particularly Muslims" would not be treated as potential terrorists by the intelligence services. "For one thing, she said, there simply were not enough resources to take such an approach." Makes you proud.
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