Mark Gobell
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The House of Lords have ruled against Control Orders.
Whilst not declaring the edict as unlawful they have declared that they breach EU HRC law.
Control Orders came into force on the same day that the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 received Royal Assent on March 11 2005, on the anniversary of the Madrid train bombs.
You will recall that PTACT 2005 was subjected to an exemplary rendition of "Parliamentary Ping Pong", eventually acquiring the Queen's Royal stamp of approval very late in the day after "tussles" over the sunset clause.
You will also recall that PTACT 2005 was a direct result of the House of Lords ruling that Part 4 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 was unlawful.
Our very competent legislature therefore, was forced to rethink it's (anti) Terrorism strategy in the light of the Law Lords ruling.
The "events" in London on 7th July 2005 marked the 119th day of the new PTACT 2005 legislation.
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| OPSI wrote: | Terrorism Act 2006
The Terrorism Act contains a comprehensive package of measures designed to ensure that the police, intelligence agencies and courts have all the tools they require to tackle terrorism and bring perpetrators to justice.
The Act received Royal Assent on 30 March 2006. This Act was not a direct response to the July attacks on London as new terrorism legislation had already been planned.
After the attacks, however, we consulted with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, to make sure that their views were considered when we developed the legislation.
Content of the Terrorism Act
The Terrorism Act specifically aims to make it more difficult for extremists to abuse the freedoms we cherish, in order encourage others to commit terrorist acts.
The Act creates a number of new offences. Once it is brought into force, it will be a criminal offence to commit:
* Acts Preparatory to Terrorism
This aims to capture those planning serious acts of terrorism.
* Encouragement to Terrorism
This makes it a criminal offence to directly or indirectly incite or encourage others to commit acts of terrorism. This will include the glorification of terrorism, where this may be understood as encouraging the emulation of terrorism.
* Dissemination of Terrorist Publications
This will cover the sale, loan, or other dissemination of terrorist publications. This will include those publications that encourage terrorism, and those that provide assistance to terrorists.
* Terrorist training offences
This makes sure that anyone who gives or receives training in terrorist techniques can be prosecuted. The Act also criminalises attendance at a place of terrorist training.
The Act also makes amendments to existing legislation, including:
* Introducing warrants to enable the police to search any property owned or controlled by a terrorist suspect
* Extending terrorism stop and search powers to cover bays and estuaries
* Extending police powers to detain suspects after arrest for up to 28 days (though periods of more than two days must be approved by a judicial authority)
* Improved search powers at ports
* Increased flexibility of the proscription regime, including the power to proscribe groups that glorify terrorism. |
The Terrorism Act 2006 acquired Lizzy Status on 30.3.2006
1 year and 19 days since the last magnificent piece of (anti) Terrorism legislation of PTACT 2005 on 11.3.2005
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Are Mossad agents now allowed into Britain? Can Israeli assassins come here? From two years before 7/7 we read:
Sunday Times | 19jan03
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,5856444,00.html
| Quote: | ISRAELI death squads have been authorised to enter "friendly" countries and assassinate opponents in a move that raises the prospect of political killings in Australia.
Agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad have been given free rein to kill those deemed to be a threat to the Jewish state - wherever they are hiding. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has until now refused permission for assassinations on the home ground of allies, has reversed the policy as part of a more aggressive approach to terrorism. The move was revealed by former Mossad agents in a series of interviews with US news agency United Press International. It was later confirmed by US intelligence officials.
They said the policy raised the potential for killings in countries with close ties to Israel, including the US, Britain and Australia. One Mossad official told UPI the policy shift was prompted by "a huge budget" increase for the agency as part of "a tougher stance in fighting global jihad (or holy war)".
"Targeted killings" have, in the main, been restricted to the West Bank and Gaza because "no one wanted such operations on their territory", one
Israeli official said. But that is changing with the appointment late last year of new Mossad director Meir Dagan. Another former Mossad agent told UPI: "Diplomatic constraints have prevented Mossad from carrying out preventive operations (assassinations) on the soil of friendly countries until now." Mr Sharon and Mr Dagan were now "reversing that policy, even if it risks complications to Israel's bilateral relations". A third source said Mr Sharon wanted "greater operational maneuverability" for Mossad. Asked if that meant assassinations within allied countries, he said: "It does."
The move comes in the wake of the assassination by the CIA of al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen. Qaed Sinan Harithi and five other suspects were killed last year when a unmanned Predator spy plane fired a Hellfire missile at their car. That attack is thought to have limited the ability of the US to protest about Mossad killings abroad. "That (the Predator attack) was done on the soil of a friendly ally," an official at the US Congress said. "I don't know on what basis we would be able to protest Israel's actions."
Israel has in the past sent hit squads to kill opponents in hostile
countries such as Lebanon, and snatch squads have been used extensively throughout the world. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina in 1960, taken to Israel and executed. In 1986, scientist Mordechai Vanunu was snatched in Rome and transported to Israel after revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons program. He was sentenced to 18 years jail, only being released from solitary confinement in 1998.
One of the few known cases of Mossad hitmen carrying out an assassination on friendly soil occurred on July 21, 1973, when a Mossad team shot dead Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi as he walked home from the cinema with his pregnant wife in the Norwegian ski resort of Lillehammer. The assassins apparently mistook Bouchikhi for Hassan Salameh, a PLO intelligence chief suspected of masterminding the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Gullow Gjeseth, who led a Norwegian Government inquiry into the shooting, said: "This was much more than a murder. This was a violation of Norwegian sovereignty." In January 1996, Israel paid undisclosed damages to Bouchikhi's family, but refused to admit responsibility for the killing.
Mossad is thought to have struck again in October 1995, when the head of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, Fathi al-Shikai, was gunned down on the streets of Malta. The hit, though never formally claimed, had all the trademarks of the agency. A return to such killings is expected to raise concerns among Israel's Western allies.
The assassinations are likely to be carried out by a unit of Mossad's secret Metsada department called the Kidon, a Hebrew word meaning "bayonet". The agents will have to answer to Mr Dagan, who has been described by a CIA agent as having a "real killer instinct". Officially, Israel has refused to confirm or deny the policy change. Kim Farber, a diplomat at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, told UPI: "There is so little information available on this, there is nothing I can
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