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British Muslim officer takes action over removal from duties: report (AFP) 7 November 2006 LONDON - A British Muslim police officer was removed from guarding senior figures including Prime Minister Tony Blair amid security fears because his young children attended a mosque associated with a suspected extremist cleric, the Independent newspaper reported onTuesday. Police constable Amjad Farooq, 39, a firearms officer, has now started race and religious discrimination proceedings against London's Metropolitan Police (Met), the paper said. He was also told that his presence in the Diplomatic Protection Group SO16 could upset the American secret service, it added. The officer failed a counter-terrorism check which came through after he spent six weeks with the group and the Met referred to the fact that his two sons, aged 9 and 11, attended their local mosque while it was associated with an imam suspected of links to an extremist Islamic group, the paper said. Farooq denies any links or inappropriate behaviour, the Independent added. "We are very close to living in the days of Salem. "If the head of counter-terrorism becomes a Witch-Finder General, then any Muslim or Muslim-looking person or sympathiser best take cover," the officer's solicitor, Lawrence Davies, told the paper. The case comes amid continuing agonised debate over the role of Muslims in British society following a series of suicide bombings on London's public transport system in July 2005, which killed 52 travellers. Last month, the head of the Met, Sir Ian Blair, ordered an inquiry after constable Alexander Omar Basha, a Muslim, was excused from guard duty at the Israeli embassy during the recent Israel-Lebanon conflict. +++ -------------------------- 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: osint@yahoogroups.com 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
