UK: New Terrorism Law Fundamentally Flawed; Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 Incompatible With Human Rights Obligations
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0315-19.htm

UK: This shoddy law is a defeat for all of us:

Forget terrorism. It's our politicians we should be most worried about.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1436111,00.html


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War on Terror May Breed More Terrorism, Experts Tell Madrid Summit
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0309-13.htm

UK: Terror bill climbdown by Labour

Guardian [UK]

03/01/05

Tony Blair's government last night sustained a significant blow to its authority when 60 Labour MPs, including four ex-cabinet ministers, rebelled against Charles Clarke's plans to impose control orders on terrorist suspects -- despite last minute concessions -- and helped slash their party's 161-vote majority to just 14. ... In a significant climbdown to the angry cross-party coalition of MPs who were vociferously refusing to grant ministers powers to detain suspects without judicial approval, Mr Clarke announced that judges will, after all, decide such cases in his new prevention of terrorism bill -- not himself, as the bill currently proposes...

http://tinyurl.com/43jm3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405I.shtml


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

The Pentagon is promoting a global counterterrorism plan that would allow Special Operations forces to enter a foreign country to conduct military operations without explicit concurrence from the U.S. ambassador there, administration officials familiar with the plan said.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/10977106.htm
http://tinyurl.com/69ku2


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