Lho kenapa? Apa takut terbongkar adanya earlly warning dari pihak intelejen
sblm peledakkan itu, atau karena apa? Bahwa bila memang terbukti adanya
peringatan dini tsb, bisa menunjukkan ketidakmampuan pemerintahan Inggris dalam
melindungi warga London atau ada alasan lain? (Thanks to your god orang-orang
Israel memang berhasil "terselamatkan")
Blair rejects calls for probe into bombings
By James Blitz, Political Editor, and Jimmy Burns
Published: July 10 2005 20:55 | Last updated: July 10 2005 20:55
http://news.ft.com/
Tony Blair will on Monday reject Conservative demands for a government inquiry
into last week's London bomb attacks, insisting such a move would distract from
the task of catching the perpetrators.
As the death toll rose to 52 and police and security services continued
searching for the bombers - thought to be Islamist terrorists - Downing Street
said the prime minister believed an inquiry now into the outrage which killed
at least 49 people would be a "ludicrous diversion."
Instead, in a statement to the Commons on Monday following last week's Group of
Eight summit, Mr Blair is expected to focus on the direction the government
must take to ensure future terrorism is defeated.
In particular, the prime minister believes there must be far greater
co-operation among European Union governments in the fight against terrorism -
a view Charles Clarke, the home secretary, is expected to drive home at an
emergency meeting of EU interior ministers this week.
He is expected to tell his counterparts governments must ensure operators keep
data on telephone and internet exchanges for up to a year.
He also indicated on Sunday that he would consider granting further "control
orders" if he thought they were necessary.
Mr Clarke said he was "very optimistic indeed" that last Thursday's bombers
would be tracked down. But he feared further attacks could take place until
that happened. "That is why the number one priority has to be the catching of
the perpetrators."
Police continued to sift through the debris from Thursday's four explosions -
three in the London Underground and one on a bus - and to examine witness
accounts and intelligence as part of their hunt for the bombers.
But police chiefs indicated that had yet to establish the identity or the
whereabouts of the terrorists they suspect belong to an extremist Islamist cell
in sympathy with the aims of Al-Qaeda.
Tension several cities remained high over the weekend. Police said they had
arrested, under prevention of terrorism laws, three British nationals on an
inward flight at Heathrow early on Sunday but insisted that any link with last
Thursday's bombings was speculative. The three were released later on Sunday
night without charge.
But the arrests, the dozens of bomb alerts in the English capital and an
evacuation in the Birmingam city centre over the weekend reflect the
nervousness of both police and the general public at the prospect that the
bombers were still at large and capable of striking again.
The police also revealed that there had been a few cases of attacks on British
Muslims in the wake of the bombings - including one in which an individual was
"seriously injured."
The revelation came as some government officials expressed irritation that an
article in a Sunday newspaper by Sir John Stevens, the former Metropolitan
Police commissioner, might stir up racial tensions. He said the bombers were
"almost certainly" British - with many more born and bred here willing to
attack.
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