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Greece is wary of terrorism measures A day after EU justice and interior ministers agreed to speed up the implementation of tough new anti-terrorism measures, in the wake of last week's London bombings, Greece openly admitted that it had doubts about some of the enhanced powers. "The council of ministers formulated a statement yesterday. Greece maintained its reservations. The process envisages the referral of the matter to teams of experts and a discussion will then follow," said government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos. The ministers from the 25 EU member states agreed in Brussels on Wednesday to accelerate measures to cut off funding to terrorist groups and boost the sharing of intelligence required in terrorism investigations. They also agreed on plans to force European telephone and Internet providers to keep communication records for three years a move that caused concern in Greece about the emergence of a police state. However, the government has said that it will examine the implementation of any new measures purely from Greece's point of view on its security. Roussopoulos was adamant that there would be no knee-jerk reactions in Athens. "The constitutional freedoms that are safeguarded in our country will be abided by completely," he said. Greece passed new anti-terrorist legislation last year, coming into line with EU standards just weeks before the Olympics. However, a presidential decree published in March 2005 gave security forces greater power to observe various communications by suspects, including telephone conversations, e-mail, and credit card purchases. The decree stipulates that the privacy rights must not be overridden unnecessarily. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
