Comments on: UK Terror Ruling Provides Urgent Test for New Government http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/05/18/uk-terror-ruling-provides-urgent-test-for-new-government/ Investigative journalist, author, filmmaker and Guantanamo expert Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hooproll http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/05/18/uk-terror-ruling-provides-urgent-test-for-new-government/comment-page-1/#comment-58626 hooproll Thu, 20 May 2010 07:43:29 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=8280#comment-58626 <strong>UK Anti-Terrorist Laws Are Generating A lot of Adverse Attention...</strong> Via andyworthington. co. uk The new coalition in the United Kingdom faces a difficult task according to their anti-terror laws that were mandated by the Labour government. A judge openly refused to deport two Pakistani students back to their home count... UK Anti-Terrorist Laws Are Generating A lot of Adverse Attention…

Via andyworthington. co. uk The new coalition in the United Kingdom faces a difficult task according to their anti-terror laws that were mandated by the Labour government. A judge openly refused to deport two Pakistani students back to their home count…

]]> By: Andy Worthington http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/05/18/uk-terror-ruling-provides-urgent-test-for-new-government/comment-page-1/#comment-58572 Andy Worthington Tue, 18 May 2010 23:48:42 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=8280#comment-58572 So it's now half past midnight and this story has not only gone international, but has also started to produce "outraged" opinion pieces, like "Why do al-Qaeda's rights trump those of the British people?" in the <em>Telegraph</em>. In the meantime, I'm still wondering quite what the case is supposed to be, and the juxtaposition of two paragraphs in the <em>Times</em> has only reinforced my unease. I'll elide them so you see what I mean: "Police raided properties in northwest England last April after an intercepted e-mail sent by Mr Naseer to an al-Qaeda associate in Pakistan suggested that terrorists planned an attack within days ... No explosives or bomb-making equipment were found and none of the 12 was charged with any terrorism offence." So let's be clear, shall we? This was an imminent attack, but there was never any evidence that any of the materials required for what Gordon Brown described as “a very big terrorist plot” existed at all. So it’s now half past midnight and this story has not only gone international, but has also started to produce “outraged” opinion pieces, like “Why do al-Qaeda’s rights trump those of the British people?” in the Telegraph. In the meantime, I’m still wondering quite what the case is supposed to be, and the juxtaposition of two paragraphs in the Times has only reinforced my unease. I’ll elide them so you see what I mean:
“Police raided properties in northwest England last April after an intercepted e-mail sent by Mr Naseer to an al-Qaeda associate in Pakistan suggested that terrorists planned an attack within days … No explosives or bomb-making equipment were found and none of the 12 was charged with any terrorism offence.”
So let’s be clear, shall we? This was an imminent attack, but there was never any evidence that any of the materials required for what Gordon Brown described as “a very big terrorist plot” existed at all.

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