Blair promises to deport extremist preachers

[Ebusitanus]

Like we could not see this comming.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...692540,00.html

Tony Blair today said he intended to tighten the Government's controversial anti-terror laws after the London bombings which claimed 52 lives.
NI_MPU('middle');Mr Blair also said measures were in hand to fast-track the deportation of radical priests, to prevent them from spreading what he described as their "evil and extreme ideology", springing from a "perverted and poisonous misinterpretation of Islam".
As the police investigation continued in Leeds, Luton and London, Mr Blair told a hushed Commons that police and security services had done 'magnificent work' in the aftermath of the July 7 bombings.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, he called for calm after the shock of finding that the bombings had been carried out by young British men. He emphasised that the terrorists represented an extreme minority of the Muslim community, and condemned the opportunistic race attacks which have come in their wake.
"There will be a sense of profound shock and anxiety in country at what has happened and also a need and a willingess to act," he told an unusually sombre House.
His words were particularly aimed at the shell-shocked suburban communities around Leeds, which were today waking up to the realisation that the four suicide bombers had grown up among their red-brick terraces.
Hundreds of residents have spent a night away from their homes in the Beeston and Burley areas surrounding yesterday's dramatic police raids, and today the West Yorkshire chief constable Colin Cramphorn was unable to assure them they would be home by tonight.
Mr Blair said: "This is a small group of extremists. It is not one that can be ignored because of the danger, but neither should it define Muslims in Britain who are overwhelmingly law-abiding, decent members of our society and we condemn attacks against them."
Police revealed last night that the London bombs were the work of four young British men of Pakistani origin, who planned their own deaths in the blasts. Three of the men lived in the city and the immediate fear is that members of a terrorist cell linked to the city are planning further strikes. The mastermind behind the attacks and the bombmaker are both still thought to be at large.
The man who planted the bomb at Edgware Road was named as Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, the married father of an eight-month-old baby, who is believed to have come from the Leeds area.
Two other terrorists were Hasib Hussain, 19, who bombed the bus in Tavistock Square, of Colenso Mount, Leeds, and Shehzad Tanweer, 22, the Aldgate bomber, who lived at Colwyn Road, Leeds.
Police believe they know the identity of the fourth, whose remains are believed to be in the bombed Tube train carriage on the Piccadilly Line. It is thought that he too comes from the Leeds area.
Armed police raided six addresses in West Yorkshire yesterday, including the homes of three of the men, who they now know travelled to Luton in a hired car last Wednesday to join the fourth man, who may also have arrived by car. After spending the night in Luton they boarded the 7.40am Thameslink train to King’s Cross the next day, each armed with a 10lb rucksack bomb.
Police found a bomb factory in Leeds containing a "viable amount of explosives". The raids came after the discovery of driving licences and credit cards at the scenes of the explosions, and a telephone call from the mother of Hasib Hussain, who asked police to try to trace her son.

A relative of one of the bombers was arrested and taken to London for questioning. Intelligence agencies say that at least two of the men had recently returned from Pakistan. All four were British, but with origins in Pakistan. MI6, MI5 and British diplomats were in touch with the Pakistani authorities last night to try to track down any connections with terrorists there. Security sources confirmed that none of the bombers was on any MI5 file, although one had links to a person investigated by police.

The four were captured on CCTV cameras at King’s Cross Thameslink station, laughing together and carrying rucksacks, minutes before they set off for their targets at 8.30am on July 7. Their apparent aim was to separate, moving north, south, east and west on the underground and detonating their bombs - although the bomber who was supposed to go north was apparently thwarted because the Northern line was closed due to a defective train.
NI_MPU('middle');Luton Railway Station reopened this morning after being closed for nearly twelve hours as police and bomb squad officers carried out 10 controlled explosions on two cars believed to have been used by the bombers.
Trains were cancelled and Luton station was evacuated at 2pm yesterday, and it remained closed until 1.25am as police worked under floodlights, examining the cars. Even when the station re-opened, the car park remained sealed off until 4.30am, leaving hundreds of drivers stranded.
One of the two suspect cars was found to contain "volatile" explosives. Wary of a possible booby-trap, the police made the car safe for forensic examination before loading it onto a low-bed truck this morning. A second car was towed to Leighton Buzzard as more than 100 officers from Bedfordshire Police, the Metropolitan Police bomb squad and British Transport Police searched the station for any evidence of the rendezvous of the four bombers last Thursday morning.
Today Mrr Blair said that in the next 14 days proposals would be published to tighten the anti-terror laws - including the controversial control orders - which scraped its way onto the statute book at the end of the last Parliamentary session. The focus would be on measures to combat the incitement and instigation of terrorism.
The Government would also look urgently at how to strengthen the process for deporting the hardline priests who incite hatred. He said this would involve opening up dialogue with Muslim leaders both at home and abroad to mobilise the "moderate and true voice of Islam". He added: "I think we all know that security measures alone are not going to deal with this."
Michael Howard, who had earlier expressed his full backing and support for the Prime Minister in his actions following the attacks, said: "The peril we face extends far beyond our shores, has taken the lives on countless Muslims and is part of a criminal conspiracy to destroy our shared way of life."
Shahid Malik, Labour MP for Dewsbury, the West Yorkshire town which was home to one of the bombers, said the situation in his constituency and further afield represented "the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community".
He said: "Condemnation is not enough, and British Muslims must, and I believe are prepared to, confront the voices of evil head on. This is a defining moment for this country and I can assure you that my constituency of Dewsbury will not be found to be wanting," he declared.
At a council meeting in Luton today, Councillor Mohammed Bashir, who represents a large Muslim ward, acknowledged the fears of extremism among the Muslim community.
"We know there are extremists living among us and we work closely with the police as a result. They come here to Luton town centre to try and recruit the young ones. They are professional, they tell them stories, brainwash them and then we know some are taken to camp in Afghanistan. Their actions are a big setback for Muslim communities," said Mr Bashir

[Perun]

Just today in Parliament, one MP demanded Blair to denounce right-wing extremists like the BNP for using the incident to incite hatred against Muslims, to which Blair agreed. Yes, let's ignore the core issue that made these attacks possible!

[Ebusitanus]

Of course its those bigoted Brits who have brought this unto themselves

[Menydh]

Wow! It is a bargain to be a moslem...

Mr Blair also said measures were in hand to fast-track the deportation of radical priests, to prevent them from spreading what he described as their "evil and extreme ideology", springing from a "perverted and poisonous misinterpretation of Islam".

.. everytime that there is an Islamic terrorist attack and that many people die as a consequence, all you get to read is all these apologies of Islam. It is so good, they are the real victims of the fundamentalists, and lots of other nonsense.

That should encourage them to do it more often, as it is great propaganda for Islam.

[Ebusitanus]

Yes, I agree totally...Its always a "perverted" form of Islamism. The tens of millions of Muslims per sé are never a problem. Yet when some drunken Skinhead hit some Moor over the head every nationalist is guilty.

[Carnyx]

I don't believe in "fundamentalism". There's one and only one Islam and it's a threat. It's dangerous by nature.

[Ebusitanus]

Oh, poor dears...so misunderstood, the white British society wanted to keep them down...I can already hear this.


http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/me..._live_for.html

THE family of Britain's first suicide bomber today said they could not comprehend why he had become a mass murderer.
Shehzad Tanweer, 22, was an outwardly ordinary young British man, a university graduate who studied sports science and loved cricket and football.
His father owns a fish and chip shop in Beeston, Leeds where he had lived all his life.
On July 7 he was the first of a four-strong suicide team to die when his bomb exploded on a London Underground train near Aldgate station.
Seconds later his friend Mohammed Sadique Khan, 30, who was from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, blew himself up on a train near Edgware Road and another friend died in a blast on a train near King's Cross.
The fourth bomber, 18-year-old Hasib Hussain, from the Leeds suburb of Holbeck, killed himself in an explosion on the number 30 bus at Tavistock Square.
Tanweer, Khan and Hussain were all British with Pakistani ancestry.
Tanweer's uncle Bashir Ahmed, 65, said the bomber's family were destroyed.
Speaking at the family home Mr Ahmed said: "There is no explanation I can come to. "Our lives have been shattered. It's impossible to describe it.
"He was proud to be British. He had everything to live for. His parents were loving and supportive. They had no financial worries.
"He was intelligent. He went to university. His plan was to go into sports.
"The family is shattered. This is a terrible thing. It wasn't him. It must have been forces behind him."
Mr Ahmed said his nephew went to Pakistan for two months earlier this year to study religion.
Passport
But he denied that his nephew travelled to Afghanistan and took part in training camps.
"There is no way, I have seen his passport," he said.
Police and the security services fear the bombers could have been acting on the orders of an al Qaida mastermind and there may be another bomb team waiting to strike.
Asked whether he believed they were part of a larger cell Home Secretary Charles Clarke said: "A central hypothesis which has to be tested and investigated is that the individuals we know about were working within a wider community."
Mr Clarke, meeting European union interior ministers in Brussels today, also revealed that police were examining telephone records in the hunt for the bombers' accomplices.
He said: "We are looking very, very closely at the relationship between the people who may have committed the offences and the wider network around them.
"The telecommunications data is an important weapon in investigating that."
Mr Clarke is today seeking Europe-wide agreement on the retention of huge amounts of personal mobile phone and email records which would help future anti-terrorist investigations.
Prime Minister Tony Blair was "shocked" to learn the bombers were born and raised in the UK, his official spokesman said.
"But he is determined that we should take on this extremism," the spokesman added.
"It is his view that this is not a problem that is limited to this country, but it is a symptom of a much bigger problem and we need to look at that.
"This problem didn't start in this society, in this country. It started beyond our shores."
The bombers appear to be the security services' worst nightmare, so-called "clean skins", apparently ordinary young men who were below the intelligence radar.
Detectives are working furiously piecing together their lives as neighbours in West Yorkshire told of their shock that suicide attackers had been living in their midst.
Like Tanweer, Khan seemed an unlikely suicide bomber. Friends said he was married with an eight-month-old baby girl and that he worked with disabled children in a primary school.
Hussain lived with his parents and neighbours said he had become "very religious" two years ago.
When he left his home last Thursday morning, with only a few hours to live, he had told his parents he was going to London for the day with friends.
At 10.20pm they reported him missing to the police casualty bureau, providing one of the vital clues which led detectives to Leeds.
In a series of raids in West Yorkshire yesterday, including on the suspects' homes, detectives found an apparent bomb factory and explosives were also found in a car at Luton station.
Detectives
At least three of the bombers are thought to have used hire cars to travel from West Yorkshire to Luton last Thursday morning.
All four men then boarded a Thameslink rail service to King's Cross where they were captured on CCTV just before 8.30am carrying large military-style rucksacks. They then set out to deliver their bombs.
A senior security source, who has viewed the CCTV footage, said: "They were chatting. You would think they were going on a hiking holiday."
Detectives believe the suspects probably lacked the expertise to plan the operation or construct the bombs themselves and were more likely to have been recruited by a more senior figure.
One senior security source said: "Where is the person who had the expertise to organise it all? There is the possibility that it could be al Qaida - someone who would have been sent to the country to do the preparation and then would have left the day before the attack. Is the capability to mount an attack still somewhere else?"
Terrorism lecturer Professor Paul Wilkinson said he believed the men were expendable pawns in an international al Qaida operation.
He said: "I just don't believe this would have been four young men acting on their own.
"There would have been another person who primed and guided them and lured them into extremism."
At least 52 people, including the bombers, died in last week's attacks.
Inquests into the deaths of seven victims opened today.
A total of 51 injured victims remained in hospital today, health officials said

[Carnyx]

Once again incomprehension and racism, that's for sure... Poor Pakis...

That's rubbish, Blair pretends to be astonish but it was highly foreseeable.

[Ebusitanus]

Hell will freeze over before those liberals will admit that their multikulti agenda was BS from the get go. Now, having to live with the secondary effects, all sorts of excuses are good.

[Breogan]

And why don't you, Mr. Blair, deport yourself along with all the muslims and get out of Europe?

This would be indeed a great step for the security in UK.