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Date: May 25, 2007 10:44:43 AM PDT
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Subject: On His Way Out the Door, Blair Threatens to Declare "State
of Emergency"
Just "by coincidence," Bush seems to be similarly inclined...
Reid warning to judges
over control orders
· Home secretary ready to invoke state of emergency
· Move to stiffen law would suspend human rights act
Alan Travis and Vikram Dodd
The Guardian (UK), May 25, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2087867,00.html
The [British] home secretary, John Reid, made clear yesterday he is
prepared to declare a "state of emergency" in order to suspend key
parts of the human rights convention if the law lords do not
overturn a series of judgments that have weakened [Blair's] anti-
terrorist [laws].
His warning to the courts followed his acute embarrassment
yesterday when he had to confirm to MPs that three terror suspects
whom he had placed under control orders to prevent them travelling
to Iraq to kill British and US troops had all absconded on Monday
night.
The search continued yesterday for the three men, two of whom are
the brothers of a convicted terrorist, as the Metropolitan police
commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, said there was no guarantee they did
not pose a danger to the UK.
Scotland Yard named Lamine Adam, 26, his brother Ibrahim, 20, and
Cerie Bullivant, 24, after they failed to report to police. One
counter-terrorism source said: "It was a deliberate attempt to
disappear, you have to ask why. They disappeared in a coordinated
way."
Police last night issued new pictures of Mr Bullivant, including a
CCTV image of him entering Dagenham police station on Monday
morning to meet the conditions of his control order. It shows he
had cut his hair.
MPs fear the control order regime is in danger of becoming a public
laughing stock since six of the current 17 terror suspects subject
to orders have managed to disappear.
A decision to "opt out" of a key part of the European Human Rights
Convention -- which can only be justified by war or a public
emergency threatening the life of the nation -- will represent a
new round in the continuing struggle between ministers and the
courts over civil liberties and the fight against terrorism.
Liberal Democrats claimed last night it would turn Britain into "a
renegade state".
The control order regime, introduced under the 2005 Prevention of
Terrorism Act after the judges ruled indefinite detention without
trial in Belmarsh prison unlawful, allows the home secretary to
impose restrictions on the liberty of individual terror suspects.
The measures, which apply to British as well as foreign suspects,
include tagging and round-the-clock electronic surveillance, up to
virtual house arrest without the need to go to court first.
"There is a very serious threat -- and I am the first to admit that
the means we have of fighting it are so inadequate that we are
fighting with one arm tied behind our backs. So I hope when we
bring forward proposals in the next few weeks that we will have a
little less party politics and a little more support for national
security," said Mr Reid.
The home secretary said the three men were not considered "at this
time" to represent a direct threat to the UK public.
Sir Ian said: "Nobody can be perfectly satisfied that they are not
a risk to the public here, but the intelligence is pointing in
another direction."
None of the three men have been charged or prosecuted for terrorist
offences. The Adam brothers were named during the "fertiliser bomb"
trial, at the end of which their brother Anthony Garcia, 25, was
jailed for life last month. Lamine had been banned from working on
London's underground system as part of his control order.
The law lords are due to hear a series of appeals from the home
secretary after he suffered repeated defeats at the hands of high
court and appeal court judges who ruled that the restrictions
without trial he had imposed on suspects amounted to an illegal
deprivation of their liberty. In one case the judges reduced a
"virtual house arrest" curfew of 18 hours to 14 hours.
Mr Reid also said he would publish proposals for a new counter-
terrorism bill within the next few weeks to strengthen Britain's
anti-terror laws. The legislation, expected later this summer, will
include new powers for the police and security services including
the questioning of terror suspects after they have been charged for
the first time and a new "middle way" on extending their detention
without charge beyond the current 28 days.
But the consultation paper to be published before Mr Reid and Tony
Blair leave office at the end of June will not include proposals to
restore public credibility in the "control order regime" nor
proposals to allow intercept phonetap evidence to be used in
terrorist court cases.
Instead Mr Reid said he was prepared for the first time to take the
"nuclear option" of opting out of Article V of the European
Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to liberty.
The high court, the court of appeal and parliament's joint human
rights committee have all said that a significant number of the 17
control orders in force are being routinely exercised in breach of
the right to liberty under article five.
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