UK: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats

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The Times, 7 June 2011




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Daily Telegraph, 6 May 2011





Yorkshire Post, 8 June 2011





Sunday Telegraph, 5 June 2011




The Independent, 6 May 2011


US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, days after the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Right, a memorial to the victims of the 7th July 2005 bombings, Hyde Park, London.
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British government: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats


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compiled by Cem Ertür

11 June 2011




1) British government: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats (7 June 2011)

2) British minister: Universities complacent over Islamic radicals (5 June 2011)

3) Britain’s top police officer defends the use of dum dum bullets (17 May 2011)


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“Intelligence indicates that a terrorist attack in our country is ‘highly likely’. Experience tells us that the threat comes not just from foreign nationals but also from terrorists born and bred in Britain. It is therefore vital that our counter-terrorism strategy contains a plan to prevent radicalisation and stop would-be terrorists from committing mass murder. Osama bin Laden may be dead, but the threat from Al Qa’ida inspired terrorism is not.” [1]

“Millions of pounds have been squandered overseas on anti-extremism projects that produced no security benefits, while crucial efforts to counter home-grown terrorism remain underfunded, the [British] Government will admit today.” [2]

“The new Prevent [counter-terrorism strategy] [...] makes clear that there will be no more ungoverned spaces — particularly in higher and further education, in the NHS [Britain’s National Health Service] and the charities sector. To this end the review imposes a duty of care on universities to safeguard students, staff, and the wider community from dangerous radicals. [...] [T]he Preventing Extremism Unit within the Department for Education is seen by many as a role model” [3]



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“[Britain’s Interior Minister] Theresa May told The Daily Telegraph that universities were not taking the issue of radicalisation seriously enough and that it was too easy for Muslim extremists to form groups on campuses “without anyone knowing”. [...]

Mrs May made her comments ahead of the publication this week of the updated version of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy.

“I think for too long there’s been complacency around universities,” she said. “I don’t think they have been sufficiently willing to recognise what can be happening on their campuses and the radicalisation that can take place. I think there is more that universities can do.”

Mrs May said universities had to “send very clear messages” and “ask themselves some questions about what happens on their campuses”. [...]

As part of the Prevent [counter-terrorism] strategy, the [British] Government will define as extremists anyone who “does not subscribe to human rights, equality before the law, democracy and full participation in society”, including those who “promote or implicitly tolerate the killing of British soldiers”. ” [4]



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“[London’s] Metropolitan Police is to issue all its firearms officers with the type of ammunition used to kill Jean Charles De Menezes. Hollow point bullets flatten and widen on impact, causing maximum damage to vital organs. [..] Mr De Menezes, a Brazillian falsely identified as a suicide bomber, was shot dead in 2005 with hollow point bullets.” [5]

“Britain's most senior police officer has defended issuing bullets similar to so-called dum dum ammunition as standard to Scotland Yard marksmen. Sir Paul Stephenson said the hollow-point bullets were chosen by his force after a series of trials because they were less likely to pass through a body and hit an innocent passer-by. [...]

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner told LBC radio that the reasons behind the decision were “not for the squeamish”, adding that the bullet “reduces the potential of collateral damage”. [...] “The reality is we think it's appropriate.” ” [6]



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notes:


[1] Prevent Strategy

Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of Her Majesty

Home Office website, June 2011

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/counter-terrorism/prevent/pr event-strategy/prevent-strategy-review?view=Binary



[2] Millions wasted chasing 'wrong' terrorist threats (*)

Money spent abroad was needed at home, report says

by Sean O'Neill, The Times, 7 June 2011



[3] The Prevent test for Islamists is just fair play (*)

Commitment to our values should be compulsory. We cannot tolerate intolerance

by Dean Godson, The Times, 7 June 2011



[4] 'Complacency' in universities over Islamic radicals (*)

by Duncan Gardham, Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8558499/Uni versities-complacent-over-Islamic-radicals-Theresa-May-warns.html



[5] Met Police to use Jean Charles De Menezes death bullets

BBC, 11 May 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13364365



[6] Police head defends dum dum bullets

Press Association, 17 May 2011

http://www.pressassociation.com/component/pafeeds/2011/05/17/police_he ad_defends_dum_dum_bullets?camefrom=regional



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Not just special, but an essential relationship (*)

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[TonyGosling]

Eisenhower's worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs

Britain faces no serious threat, yet keeps waging war. While big defence exists, glory-hungry politicians will use it

Simon Jenkins guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 June 2011 21.00 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/16/eisenhower-fears-i nvent-enemies-buy-bombs

Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish or Swedes. Britain's borders and British people have not been under serious threat for a generation. Yet time and again our leaders crave battle. Why?

Last week we got a glimpse of an answer and it was not nice. The outgoing US defence secretary, Robert Gates, berated Europe's "failure of political will" in not maintaining defence spending. He said Nato had declined into a "two-tier alliance" between those willing to wage war and those "who specialise in 'soft' humanitarian, development, peacekeeping and talking tasks". Peace, he implied, is for wimps. Real men buy bombs, and drop them.