Man charged with terror offence

A British man has been charged under the Terrorism Act after a police intelligence operation into alleged international terror offences.
Yassin Felin Nassari, 27, is accused of possessing a document likely to be useful to a terrorist.
He was arrested at his home in Ealing, west London, on Friday and is due to appear at Bow Street Magistrates' Court on Monday afternoon.
The Metropolitan police asked Dutch police to search a Eindhoven address.
A woman was arrested at the same time as Mr Nassari, but released without any further action

mi5 at ful stretch.

The Tiny Minority of Extremists has been Extremely busy in Britain. Yet no one seems to get the bright idea to start checking for jihadist sentiments among those wishing to enter the country. "MI5 at full stretch as 20 Islamist terror plots revealed," from the TimesOnline,
TWENTY “major conspiracies” by Islamist terrorists in Britain have been uncovered by the security services, John Reid, the home secretary, has disclosed.
Reid said that the existence of so many plots means that the police and MI5 are fully stretched and cannot divert their precious counter-terrorism resources to a lengthy public inquiry into last year’s London suicide bombings.
Reid revealed the existence of the plots — far more than have previously been reported — at a meeting with some of the victims’ relatives and survivors of the attacks last week.
He failed to give further details but the claim appears to fit in with briefings by MI5 which suggest that as many as 1,200 potential terrorist suspects may now be in the UK.

Mi5 INFILTRATED BY AL-QAEDA

British National Arrested for Assisting Hamas

How silly of Iyaz Ali. He should have known that individual British nationals and Britain-based private organizations shouldn't aid Hamas; they should leave that up to their government.

The Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the Israel Police, on 10.5.06, arrested Iyaz Ali, a Pakistani-born British national, born in 1970. He admitted to being a member of the UK-based Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), which is suspected of supporting Hamas. He admitted to working for IRW's Gaza branch as a project director since December 2005; he worked to transfer funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions and organizations, including the Al Wafa and Al Tzalah associations, which have been outlawed in Israel. He also admitted that he worked in Jordan and cooperated with local Hamas operatives.
Incriminating files were found on Ali's computer, including documents that attested to the organization's ties with illegal Hamas funds abroad (in the UK and in Saudi Arabia) and in Nablus. Also found were photographs of swastikas superimposed on IDF symbols, of senior Nazi German officials, of Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as well as many photographs of Hamas military activities.
The IRW was established in 1984 in the British city of Birmingham. It has branches in Gaza and Ramallah. The IRW provides support and assistance to Hamas's infrastructure. The IRW's activities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip are carried out by social welfare organizations controlled and staffed by Hamas operatives. The intensive activities of these associations are designed to further Hamas's ideology among the Palestinian population.

Israel expels British aid worker

MP's call for hate sect ban

AN MP demanded a Government ban on an extremist Islamic group led by a disciple of the fugitive hate preacher Omar Bakri.
The controversial Saved Sect — led by British-born Abu Izzadeen — emerged after Bakri’s fanatical group al-Muhajiroun was outlawed.
An Arabic newspaper in London calls Izzadeen "the UK’s new face of radicalism" and he is being probed over public rants, which include calling last year’s London bombings "entirely praiseworthy".
Crusading Labour MP Andrew Dismore said: "The organisation this man heads is al-Muhajiroun by another name.
"The Government should ban it and the police should conclude their investigation into him as soon as possible."
Izzadeen, 31 — born Trevor Brooks to a West Indian family — is said to be planning new websites to spread his poison.
He claims he is closer to Bakri — who is in the Lebanon after being booted out of Britain — than to his own father.
The married dad of three converted to Islam at 17 after going to notorious Finsbury Park Mosque, where hook-handed Abu Hamza preached.
Last night, a Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman said: "The police investigation is ongoing."

Blunders that left Abu Hamza free

UK Muslim Leader: Preaching Jihad is Our Right

A fascinating admission in an article at The Muslim News, a British Muslim paper, reporting a speech by Union of Muslim Organisations (UMO) official Syed Aziz Pasha—who is seething over a new addition to Britain’s anti-terror laws that would prevent them from preaching jihad.

Perpetual Victims Syndrome

The Government was condemned last month on its glorification antiterrorism legislation at an event to celebrate Prophet Muhammad (p)’s birthday held on April 18. "The Government is spending more time on anti terror legislation and is taking away Muslims’ civil liberties and freedom," said Secretary General of Union of Muslim Organisations (UMO), Syed Aziz Pasha. He was responding to Home Office Minister, Fiona Mactaggart, who told the guests that the anti terror legislation was meant "to make us safer" and that the outlawing of glorification of terrorism "does not prevent reasonable speeches."
Mactaggart said the Government was "looking forward to continuing collaboration with the Muslim community." It is "this relationship that helps policing work," she said. But Pasha said anti terror legislation was targeted at the Muslims and the new addition of glorification would prevent them from speaking about jihad as this would be considered as terrorism.
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Uh. I think that’s supposed to be the idea.

Human rights fears mean police refuse to issue wanted posters of foreign criminals

The "human rights" of foreign ex-prisoners on the run from police are being put before public safety. Detectives across the country are refusing to issue "wanted" posters for the missing criminals because they do not want to breach human rights laws.
Forces said that the offenders had a right to privacy and might sue for defamation if their names and photographs were released.
Critics condemned the decision as "ludicrous". It comes as the Government faces mounting pressure to reform or scrap the Human Rights Act, which was blamed last week for a murder by a serial sex attacker and for a court ruling that nine asylum seekers who hijacked an aeroplane cannot be sent home to Afghanistan.
the Lord Chancellor acknowledged public fears that dangerous criminals were able to remain at large because of the legislation and said the Government was considering new laws.
Lord Falconer said: "I think there is real concern about the way the Act is operating. The deployment of human rights is, often wrongly, leading to wrong conclusions to be made about issues of public safety. There needs to be political clarity that the Human Rights Act should have no effect on public safety issues - public safety comes first."
Last week the Prime Minister's official spokesman indicated that Tony Blair was also considering amending the Act to restore public confidence.
The Conservative leader, David Cameron, has already vowed to order a review of the law if he is elected and will consider rewriting the legislation or even abolishing it.

Meanwhile, Charles Clarke has revealed that he "did not lose a minute's sleep" over the freed foreign prisoners scandal that led to him being sacked as Home Secretary.
The MP told his local newspaper: "My sleeping was completely normal, fortunately I'm not worried by sleepless nights. Sleepless nights occur when there are things which are genuinely exercising your worry."
In his final Commons appearance before he was sacked, Mr Clarke said that police and immigration officers were engaged in "very intensive work" to find and deport 38 serious offenders who were released from jail without being considered for deportation.
His successor, John Reid, suggested last week that the true number may be higher, but could not give a figure. Police forces pointed to human rights legislation as the reason why names and photographs cannot be issued. They also said the on-the-run former prisoners were not sought as criminals, but instead as the perpetrators of immigration offences.
The Metropolitan Police said: "Anyone who is wanted on any offence has the right to privacy." Greater Manchester Police said: "We could not be sure about putting out information now without possibly defaming somebody." The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) says in its guidance to forces: "Article 8 of the Human Rights Act gives everyone the right to respect for their private and family life... and publication of photographs could be a breach of that."
According to Acpo, photographs should be released only in "exceptional circumstances", where public safety needs override the case for privacy. Last night the Conservatives condemned the decision. David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said: "If true, this is a ludicrous interpretation of human rights. A criminal's right to privacy is as nothing by comparison to the public's right to safety.
"Now that these individuals are on the run, their names and pictures should be in the public domain so that people are not put at even more unnecessary risk."
The Immigration Service has insisted that the decision as to whether to name the missing former prisoners is down to the police. A Home Office spokesman said: "It is an operational matter for individual police forces to decide whether to publish details or photos of the individuals concerned."
Yet every force in the country has come to the same decision - to withhold the details of the former prisoners.
The Met, Britain's largest force, said: "They are not criminals; it is an immigration offence. We will use all the tools in our tool box to try and find them without printing their identity - that's the last recourse."
Greater Manchester Police said its fear of being sued for defamation was heightened because "this only happened two or three weeks ago and the investigations are in a very early stage".
Last week, Andrew Bridges, the Chief Inspector of Probation, concluded that worries over human rights had prevented the proper supervision of serial sex offender Anthony Rice following his release from a 16-year sentence for rape. He went on to kill Naomi Bryant.
Thousands reoffend on probation

Terror suspect to be extradited

A Moroccan terror suspect held in Britain has lost his appeal against extradition to Spain.
Farid Hilali, 38, has been held since September 2003 and is allegedly connected to the 11 September attacks.
His lawyers claim there is no evidence against him and say he has been tortured by UK intelligence agents.
But judges sitting at London's High Court ruled: "None of the reasons put forward amounts to a ground why the appellant should not be extradited."
Mr Hilali was originally arrested in September 2003 in Kennington, south London, under the Terrorism Act 2000.
He was not charged, but was discovered to have entered the country illegally and was detained at London's Belmarsh prison.
'Abuse of process'
His removal was sanctioned by the courts in June last year, but his lawyers had appealed against that decision.
Alun Jones QC, for Mr Hilali, described that ruling as an "abuse of process" and said there was a lack of evidence against his client.
Mr Hilali said the extradition request was being used to obtain his eventual return to Morocco, where he said he would be "immediately arrested and tortured again".
If he does not appeal the High Court ruling within 14 days he will be extradited.

how long........

Bukhari:V4B52N233 “Allah’s Apostle forbade the people to travel to a hostile country carrying copies of the Qur’an. [He said:] Unbelievers will never understand our signs and revelations.”

British Muslim: "I’m going to bring this country down" over Allah ice cream

The dreaded blasphemous ice cream

Harper's Magazine recently posted "I'm Hatin' It," a September 2005 interview with Rashad Akhtar, "a twenty-seven-year-old British Muslim, who alleges that the graphic used on the lid of Burger King ice-cream cones resembles the Arabic spelling of 'Allah.'"

The Enlightenment happened at half past 12 a.m. in Burger King, Park Royal. I had ordered my food, and a French guy got talking to me and asked, "Are you Muslim?" He said, "Look at this," and he showed me the cone. I saw it and I thought, "Wow," like anyone would. He said, "Turn it around."
I was thinking of my stomach. I was hungry. I would have loved to eat an ice cream. When I saw it, my mouth fell open. I dropped the ice cream. I canceled my order. That was the defining moment of my life.
The Burger King logo is there in Arabic. "Allah" is spelled exactly how it is there, and the Burger King logo is where the ominah should be. Why, there is no way it could be a coincidence. How can you say it is a spinning swirl? How does it spin on something that is static? You cannot spin it around unless you have a mechanical device. You spin it one direction, to the right, and it is offending a billion people.
I’m not talking about Muslims in the Park Royal vicinity, or in the U.K. I’m talking about globally. Everyone who sees this is going to be offended. If you put a different symbol on there, you’re offending Jews, Christians, Sikhs, or Hindus. I am going to try my best in life, so that these people do not operate in a single Muslim country again, so that we get an apology to every single Muslim on this planet in their language, in their country, on a national TV station: "Sorry. We, as an American company, are sorry. We didn’t mean to offend you."
What angers me most is that most people, once they have finished with it, they look at it and say, "Nice cone. Nice design. Nice cone design." They chuck it away. That is disrespectful. Don’t throw it away. Keep it as evidence. A reminder of what these people are doing every single day of our lives.
We showed this to Muslim customers in Burger King and they were disgusted. We went to the manager. "Is this true?" we asked. He said, "Yes, my brother. It is true." I spoke to two other Pakistani Muslim guys there and they said, "We are sickened." They were cussing Burger King.
I feel humiliated. I want to humiliate the person who did this to an extent that he never works again. I’m going to make him see that it was the biggest mistake in his life. I want to meet the guy. I want to ask the guy, "What does this mean to you?" then never see his face again.
In a way, I’m glad he did this to me. It has opened my eyes. The fear of God, the love of God, the love of not letting anyone disrespect God. Even though it means nothing to some people and may mean nothing to some Muslims in this country, this is my jihad. I’m not going to rest until I find the person who is responsible. I’m going to bring this country down.

I trust Rashad Akhtar will forthwith be arrested and prosecuted.

fake islamic pic explained

People have found the name "allah" in fruits, such as the watermelon, tomato and the mango. When the fruit was cut in half the name "allah" appeared on the flesh. How is this possible? just thinking about it makes me scared. This is due to the imaginative mind of the Muslims. Children are very imaginative. They see familiar things in almost everything. As a child I used to lie down and watch so many familiar shapes in clouds. Unfortunately, Islam has thwarted the intellect of the Muslims. The brain of a Muslim is a retarded brain. They think like children and just like children they are good in imagining things. But since they are only obsessed with Islam all they see is things related to Islam. If you pay attention you’ll find shapes in everything that may resemble something familiar. Now the word Allah in Arabic is a simple shape. It is very likely that you find something resembling it in any object. My names Ali and Sina are also relatively simple in Arabic, even though Sina has some dots that make it somehow more difficult. But I often see things that resemble my names. Does that mean something? Is this the proof that I am a divine personage? May be next time I see my name in an object I’ll take a picture and lay claim to prophethood or even Godhood. Is that enough to prove I am God or his messenger? My dear friend, it is time that Muslims mature also and stop these childish ways of thinking. Whether Allah is the real God or not can be determined by reading the Quran. I don’t think the person who wrote that book was an intelligent person. The Quran is written by a psychopath and only a fool would think it is a divine book. How can the maker of this world be so ignorant as it appears to be in the Quran? Anyone who thinks these asinine words are from God must be brain damaged. If only they had more intelligence, Muslims would be ashamed for believing in this most stupid book of all.

Galloway: OK to bomb PM

CREEPY MP George Galloway was slammed as "twisted" last night — for saying an ASSASSINATION of Tony Blair would be morally justified.
His rant came as it was revealed plans to protect the PM from terrorist attacks were lost in a security blunder.
Respect MP Galloway,was speaking during a magazine interview.
He was asked: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber — if there were no other casualties — be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"
Galloway, 51, replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it — but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable.
And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq — as Blair did."
The MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in East London, was interviewed in GQ magazine. Labour MP Stephen Pound said: "These comments take my breath away. Galloway is disgraceful and truly twisted.
"Every time you think he can’t sink any lower he goes and stuns you again. It’s beyond reprehensible to say it would be justified for a suicide bomber to assassinate anyone."
The Stop The War Coalition said: "We don’t agree with Tony Blair’s actions. But neither do we agree with suicide bombers or assassinations."
Galloway is being investigated over claims he received oil money from Saddam Hussein, which he denies. And a newspaper revealed he was pals with Saddam’s murderous son Uday.
Plans to protect Mr Blair marked "restricted" and "confidential" were found by a guest at Manchester’s Midland Hotel. The PM is expected to stay at the Midland during the Labour conference in September.
The file detailed possible attempts using suicide bombers, car bombs, mortars or rockets. Security checkpoints were also listed. It was handed to police, who are investigating.
It is thought the plans were left lying around by one of the hotel staff after talks on security with police officers.

London club 'bombing plan' taped

An alleged British terror cell talked of blowing up London's Ministry of Sound nightclub, a court has been told.
One of the accused Jawad Akbar said they would not be blamed for killing innocent people, a jury at the Old Bailey has heard.
Akbar, 22, and Omar Khyam, 24, both from Crawley, West Sussex, appeared to discuss possible targets in secret security surveillance recordings.
Seven of the men deny conspiring with a Canadian to cause explosions.
Four of the men also deny having chemicals suitable for bomb-making

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Got Seven in Britain

Seven members of the Religion of Peace™ have been arrested in Britain:

Seven people are being held following an anti-terrorist police operation across England to target people they suspect of plotting attacks abroad.

The raids, which began at 0300 BST and involved 500 officers, are believed to relate to activities in Iraq. Eighteen properties were raided and nine arrests made, but two people were later released. The police forces involved are Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Cleveland, Metropolitan Police and Merseyside.

The Home Office confirmed five of the seven held were foreign nationals detained under the home secretary’s powers to “deport individuals whose presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good for reasons of national security”. The other two people are being held under the Terrorism Act.

BBC News understands that one of the men arrested in Manchester is Tahir Nasuf, a 44-year-old born in Libya. He moved to Manchester in 1993 and is married with four children.

The offices of a charity he works for - the Sanabel Relief Agency - were also raided in Birmingham.

This leaves only about 693 individuals whose presence is not conducive to the public good

rise....

Asylum claim figure rises by 5%

Three guilty of riot night murder

Three Asian men have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a 23-year-old black IT worker during riots in Birmingham.

Isaiah Young-Sam was trying to avoid the rioting in Lozells last October, when he was stabbed in the heart.
Waqar Ahmed, 26, Azhil Khan, 23, and Afzal Khan, 22, from Handsworth, had denied murder. They were told they would serve a minimum of 25 years.
The judge said Isaiah was killed for no other reason than his skin colour.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Mackay said: "The four men (Isaiah, his brother and two friends) were set upon because they were Afro-Caribbean and for no other reason.
"They had done nothing to these defendants and done nothing to incur or justify hostility.
"What led to the death of Isaiah Young-Sam was the colour of his skin."
The defendants were fuelled by the mob violence which they could have resisted, he added.
Isaiah's mother, Murna McLean, described his killers as "animals".
There were cries of "they're innocent" from the public gallery as the jury returned its unanimous verdict on Monday.
Mr Justice McKay warned members of the defendants' families they would be asked to leave if they continued to call out.
The court heard how two or three cars pulled up in front of the victim and his friends as they made their way through back streets of Lozells.
A group of men wearing hoodies and bandanas got out and chased them. Mr Young-Sam, a computer analyst for Birmingham City Council, fell behind and was attacked.
The defendants were also convicted, and given 10 years to run concurrently, for attacking Mr Young-Sam's friend, Locksley Byfield, who suffered a non life-threatening stab wound to the backside in the incident which took place during the evening of 22 October, 2005.
The jury was told how the defendants went to Huddersfield just hours after the attack and returned to Birmingham the next day where they booked one-way tickets to Pakistan.
They were stopped in Dubai en route to Pakistan and returned to Britain where they were arrested.
They claimed a fourth man, who cannot be named, wielded the knife which killed Mr Young-Sam.
In mitigation, their defence barristers said they were men of previous good character who got caught up in the contagious atmosphere of escalating community tensions.
Kavina Young-Sam, 22, Isaiah's sister, said her brother was a kind, fun-loving, humble and respectful young man who always gave off a pleasant vibe.
She said: "His interests included going to the gym, leisure time on his computer and listening to music.
"One of his more serious interests was in his Bible, which had a big impact on how he lived his life and how he dealt with others in such a fair and positive manner."
She added: "My parents, my brother and myself will never come to terms with the vicious attack and murder of Isaiah and cannot understand how people could take the life of such an innocent young man."
The disturbances in Lozells, said to be the worst in the area for 20 years, were thought to have been sparked by rumours alleging a West Indian girl had been raped by a gang of Asian men.


The black community particularly feel that they have been re-colonised by the Asian community

More than 230 terror suspects free to stay in Britain

MORE than 230 foreigners identified by MI5 and Scotland Yard as suspected terrorists have been allowed to stay in Britain as asylum seekers.
Home Office records show that nearly a quarter of the 963 people arrested in counter-terrorism operations in England and Wales since September 2001 have claimed refugee status, saying their human rights would be violated if they returned to countries such as Algeria, Iraq and Somalia.While their applications are processed, all are entitled to state benefits such as free housing and legal aid to pursue their claims that they would be persecuted in their home countries.Critics say the figures make a mockery of a much trumpeted announcement by Tony Blair after last July’s London bombings that the government would automatically refuse asylum to anyone engaged in terrorism.The disclosure will increase pressure on John Reid, the home secretary, who already faces claims that he misled the public over the affair of five Nigerians who were arrested last week working as illegal immigrants at the Home Office.Reid boasted that the arrests showed that the system for detecting illegal migrants worked. But the company that employed them later revealed that the men had been working at the department for years.With Reid due to be grilled by a Commons committee over the immigration debacles, the figures on terrorist suspects have reignited the debate over Britain’s "porous borders".Patrick Mercer, the Tory spokesman for homeland security, said terrorists were being wrongly led to believe that they could take advantage of Britain’s lax border controls.The Tories want a US-style national border police to stop dangerous terrorists and criminals from entering the country.Baroness Cox, a former deputy speaker of the Lords who has been pressing ministers to disclose the statistics, said that allowing so many terror suspects to seek asylum sent the wrong message."This is quite a signifiant group of people who could be a threat to society," she said. "It shows a remarkable lack of due care and vigilance by the government."Sir Andrew Green, the former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia and chairman of MigrationWatch UK, an independent think tank, said: "This is clear evidence of the abuse of the asylum system by potential terrorists. We have long urged that we need a much tougher and more realistic approach to applications from countries we know to be potential sources of terrorism."Latest Home Office figures show that of the 963 people detained under Britain’s terrorism laws between September 2001 and November 2005, 232 were identified in the department’s records as having applied for asylum, 214 of them before being arrested. Scotland Yard said an additional 34 people had been arrested as suspected terrorists in the period to March this year, bringing the total number to 997. If one in four has also claimed asylum, that would bring the total of asylum seeking terror suspects to about 240.The Home Office says most of those arrested are never brought to court. More than half are released without charge while dozens more are charged under other laws with crimes such as murder, grievous bodily harm or the use of firearms.Several men charged in an alleged plot to target Britain with the deadly poison ricin were asylum seekers. Among them was Algerian-born Kamel Bourgass, the ringleader. He was sentenced to life imprisonment last year for the murder of Stephen Oake, a Manchester special branch officer.Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric said to be Al-Qaeda’s "ambassador in Europe", came to Britain as an asylum seeker from Pakistan in 1993. The Home Office is trying to deport him to Jordan, the place of his birth, claiming that his presence is "not conducive to the public good". It has also emerged that two men charged over the July 21 attacks on London had come to Britain as dependents of asylum seekers from Somalia and Eritrea.Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, said yesterday that he would ask the European Court of Human Rights to review its absolute bar on deporting people to countries where they could face death or torture. Goldsmith said the government wanted to be able to take into account British security considerations. Experts warned that article 3 of the human rights convention, which is enshrined in the government’s human rights act, meant that it was almost impossible to remove people from Britain even if they were terrorists. "Tony Blair has quite deliberately misled the public in suggesting that we could just remove people suspected or found guilty of terrorism," said Green

Perpetual Victims Syndrome

When police in London arrest muslims for openly inciting violence and murder, it gets put in the category called "Islamophobia" on The Muslim News website.

Anything to be portrayed as the victim.....


Watch the video of the muslim demonstration in front of the Danish embassy in London here

More videos here

If your wondering how islam got the 'religion of peace and tolerance' lable, its probably this verse which calls all non-muslims the 'worst of creatures'. quran 98:06 Or all this. Remember that the next time a politician tries to sugarcoat islam. This politically correct sugarcoating by politicians is selling out the free world each and every time.
The motives of islam to exploit this very politically correct nature is so blatantly obvious its time the world woke up.

Muslim students 'being taught to despise unbelievers as filth'

MUSLIM students training to be imams at a British college with strong Iranian links have complained that they are being taught fundamentalist doctrines which describe nonMuslims as "filth".
The Times has obtained extracts from medieval texts taught to the students in which unbelievers are likened to pigs and dogs. The texts are taught at the Hawza Ilmiyya of London, a religious school, which has a sister institution, the Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS), which offers a degree validated by Middlesex University


"There are ten types of filth and impurities: urine, faeces, semen, carrion, blood of carrion, dogs, pigs, disbelievers".(Text being taught at The Hawza Ilmiyya Islamic school, Willesden, London – The Times)
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UK: University courses on Islam encouraging jihad and Sharia supremacism.

British officials are shocked (not "shocked! shocked!," but really shocked) to find out that young Muslims are learning "radical teaching" in their university courses on Islam.
Here are the fruits of the official willful ignorance of Islam and jihad. Blair (and Bush, and so many others) insist that jihad violence does not stem from Islam, and has nothing to do with Islam. British (and American) officials cannot conceive -- are not allowed to conceive -- of the possibility that an ordinary course on Islam might not have to be subverted or infiltrated in order to teach the necessity to wage jihad in order to impose the Islamic social order over the world. If that course is not a whitewash designed to please and/or bamboozle Westerners, it is actually likely that it will teach that in one form or another.
If British officials had been aware of all that, if they had allowed themselves to be aware of it, they might not be so surprised by this. They might even have nipped it in the bud.

"Universities face review of Islam course: Ministers fear terrorism is condoned," from the Yorkshire Post,
YOUNG Muslim students at some British universities are being exposed to radical teaching that explicitly condones terrorism, a senior Minister warned yesterday.
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell ordered an urgent review of university Islamic courses after claiming there was evidence that "narrow and unhelpful" interpretations of Islam were available to "many" young people.
He admitted there was worry at the highest levels of Government about the effect such teaching could have in the wake of last year's suicide bombings in London.
Mr Rammell's intervention comes after a report by an academic at Brunel University published last year claimed extremist groups, including the British National Party, had been found active at 24 universities.
"...including the British National Party..." This is completely irrelevant to this story, unless the BNP is teaching jihad to university students. It seems to be in the story just to prove that the Yorkshire Post is not "Islamophobic," and is not siding with white racists.
The study has since come under sustained criticism but yesterday Mr Rammell demanded an improvement in the way Islam is taught at higher education level.
He said: "There are weaknesses in the way young Muslims are educated about what their faith really requires.
"There is a concern that the teachings which the great majority of Muslims would want to stress about living in peace, protecting the vulnerable, avoiding harm to others, are sometimes sidelined.
Where is the Great Majority of Peaceful, Law-Abiding Muslims™ we keep hearing so much about? Why is it evidently not only a Silent, but a Powerless Majority?
"There is reason to think that in some cases students are being exposed, more than any of us would like, to wrong-headed influences, under the name of religion.
"In particular, exposed to teachings that either explicitly condone terrorism, or foster a climate of opinion which is at least sympathetic to terrorists' motivation."
"I am worried about this, so are colleagues in Government, so above all are Muslims that I have spoken to."
Of course, Rammell. What do you expect them to say to you? But why could they not or did they not prevent the Tiny Minority of Extremists™ from taking control of these university courses?
Mr Rammell announced a review of Islamic education at universities by a leading scholar, Dr Ataullah Siddiqui, who will be asked to make sure courses are not restricted to narrow interpretations of Islam.

I hope well-informed people will be watching his work closely.

LAPTOPS FOR TERROR SUSPECTS

A JAIL decision to give £1,000 laptops to 28 top terror suspects was last night branded "disgraceful" and a dangerous waste of money.
Belmarsh bosses said the computers were necessary to help the men prepare their legal defences.
But angry critics said the £28,000 would be better spent on upping security at the jail which, the Mirror can reveal, is about a third understaffed.
They also fear that the laptops could be used for criminal activity even though there will be no internet access.
The prisoners include those accused of the 21/7 attempted bombings in London, al-Qaeda suspects and members of the bullying Muslim Boys gang.
A source said: "It's a disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money. The prison is severely understaffed and £28,000 could have recruited an officer for 18 months.
"It's also dangerous. The prisoners could easily make CD-Roms, which could be handed to visitors, and orchestrate criminal activity from the inside.
"Inmates are incredibly resourceful. It wouldn't surprise me if they eventually managed to get the internet on their laptops.
"We're talking about men who've engineered their own mobile phone battery chargers."
The laptops will be handed to prisoners this week for private use in their cells.
Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza, 47 - jailed for seven years last month for race hate and terror crimes - was given a laptop days after he arrived at the South London jail on remand.
Terror suspects are held in a special high-security unit at Belmarsh.
But an insider disclosed: "We're around a third of staff short and at full stretch everyday. We desperately need more.
"When resignations, training courses, holidays and sickness kick in we really feel the pinch.
"Some days, units are shut down because there are not enough officers to man them. It's a juggling act."
When the Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers visited last October, four men were held in one spur and nine in another. One man was in his own secure unit.
Five Category A inmates were the only prisoners in the country to be classed as an "exceptional risk".
A Prison Service spokesman said: "Belmarsh has received a delivery of laptops for prisoners. Internet access will be removed before they are made available.
"Under Prison Service Orders, prison inmates must have access to adequate facilities to prepare their legal cases.
"Much of the information provided by the Crown Prosecution Service relating to their cases is stored in electronic format.
"Prisoners must be able to read this evidence."
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JAIL 'DOESN'T UNDERSTAND' MUSLIMS

PRISON officers in Belmarsh do not understand the social and religious behaviour of Muslims, says a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers.
Ms Owers is concerned that four remand prisoners on terror charges were allowed to meet only in pairs and were banned from communal Friday prayers.
She said: "It is vital that prisons understand the prisoners they hold and can assess the relationships between and within different groups of prisoners in order to be able to manage them safely.
"We did not believe this was the case for staff in relation to Muslim prisoners at Belmarsh." But a source at the jail said: "The governor does everything possible to accommodate the Muslims' needs. During Ramadan, staff stayed up all night cooking for men who had fasted during the day.
"We cater for their special diet needs and accommodate every religious festival in the Islamic calendar.
"But when prisoners asked for a Midnight Mass service at Christmas they were told we didn't have the staff."
Ms Owers said that overall Belmarsh was "making progress" but she made 127 recommendations for improvement.
Prison Service director general Phil Wheatley said: "What is important for Belmarsh is not to be diverted by issues specific to a small number of prisoners."
A Prison Service spokeswoman said: "Belmarsh takes the issue of faith very seriously. In a prison where 17 religious faiths are represented, great care is taken to ensure staff are aware of the cultural and religious issues affecting prisoners."

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Abu Hamza’s prison computer has been seized in a security swoop — to stop him surfing the net.
The hook-handed Muslim cleric and a string of al-Qaeda terror suspects had been loaned Toshiba laptops to help them prepare their defence.
Hamza, is appealing his seven-year sentence for preaching sermons of hate and incitement to murder. US authorities also want to extradite him for trial on terror charges.
The computers’ modems had been disconnected. But then jail bosses discovered they could be re-activated — and with a mobile could provide access to websites.
The lags could then have contacted terror groups. Guards at London’s top-security Belmarsh Prison have now impounded the computers, believed to be around 30.
A prison source said: "What’s happened is madness.
"Any access to the internet means they could have been orchestrating the next London bomb attacks. Everyone was assured that the modems had been removed. But now we’ve discovered they had just been disconnected. It’s a joke."
A Prison Service spokesman confirmed that the computers had been "recalled".

Silence to mark 7/7 anniversary

We will remember the loss of the bereaved families, the suffering of the injured and all those who aided them Tessa Jowell


A two-minute silence is to be held on 7 July to mark the first anniversary of the London bombings that killed 52 people, Tessa Jowell has announced.
The national silence, at noon, is to be followed by a memorial event in the capital's Regent's Park.
The culture secretary also announced plans for a permanent memorial to be built in Tavistock Square, where one of the four bombs exploded on a bus.
The memorial is to be designed in consultation with victims' families.
Ms Jowell said: "The terrorist attacks in London last July were a dark hour in our history.
"They left 52 grieving families and hundreds of people injured. The lives of many of those caught up in the atrocity will never be the same again."
She said the two-minute silence would bring the nation together in tribute to those who died.
"We will remember the loss of the bereaved families, the suffering of the injured and all those who selflessly aided them," she said.
"The silence, the permanent memorial and the commemoration will give us all a way to remember the dead and give a voice to what is still unutterable grief."
The open air commemorative event will take place in Regent's Park's Queen Mary's Gardens.
Names read out
Participants will include the bereaved relatives, some of the hundreds of people injured by the bombs and ordinary Londoners.
The centrepiece of the event will be the reading aloud of the names of the 52 people killed.
John Falding, who lost his partner Anat Rosenberg in the bombings, said: "It was a very full consultation with suggestions from the government and plenty of space for our own ideas.
"What they announced today reflects very strongly the points I made so I'm extremely pleased."
The ceremony in Queen's Gardens will be the first time Mr Falding returns to the spot where he and his wife spent the evening before she died, at an open-air concert.
'Not to dwell'
Craig Cassidy, a paramedic who was one of the first on the bomb scene at Aldgate on 7 July told BBC News the remembrance plans were appropriate and he would take part in a two minutes silence.
"For the people that want it to be remembered, it should be," he said, adding "But you've got to be careful not to dwell on it to much, or the people who did it will have had more of an effect that even they would have imagined.
The permanent memorial in Tavistock Square will be created in a specially-designed garden on the side of the square nearest the place where a double-decker bus exploded on 7 July.
More than 770 people were injured and 52 killed when four suicide bombers set off bombs on London's transport system in the morning rush hour on 7 July 2005

'10 years' to deport all illegals

Asylum claim figure rises by 5%

An immigration minister has said it could take 10 years to deport all the illegal immigrants living in the UK.
Tony McNulty, speaking on BBC Two's Newsnight, said 310,000 to 570,000 was "roughly in the ball park" of how many illegal immigrants were in the country.
He said it would take a decade to remove them, on the basis that only so many could be deported each year.
Earlier Tony Blair had come under fire after saying there were no official figure estimates of illegal immigrants.
Mr McNulty said:"Assuming that we can find them, and assuming that people aren't going away of their own accord, it would take some time."
He said it would take "Ten years, if you are saying 25,000 per year."
"Remember too the illegal population as it is is multi-layered and segmented it's not just.. those climbing over fences," he added.
'Rattled'
His comments follow a debate over illegal immigrants, after Mr Blair admitted there were no official estimates.
The row was originally sparked by the news that 1,023 foreign prisoners were released without being considered for deportation.
On Wednesday Mr Blair said he believed the vast bulk of foreign prisoners should be deported whatever the dangers in their home nations.
Downing Street later said some prisoners could avoid deportation in "very few exceptional cases" such as a known threat to an individual.
'Rattled'
The Conservatives said Mr Blair was "rattled" while the Lib Dems argued the policy was probably unlawful.
The prime minister said the measure might not apply to foreigners who had been in the UK for a long time and only served a short jail term.
He said: "In the vast bulk of cases, as was explained, there will be an automatic presumption now to deport - and the vast bulk of those people will be deported," he said. "Those people, in my view, should be deported irrespective of any claim that they have that the country to which they are going back may not be safe.
"That is why it is important, if necessary, that we look at legislating to ensure that such an automatic presumption applies."
They should not be able to claim their home country was too unsafe generally, he said, pointing out people were now being deported to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sir Andrew Green, from Migrationwatch UK, said he was "surprised" by Mr Blair's words but said he thought the current balance was wrong.
"Too much weight is being given to the possibility of someone suffering when they get home and too little weight is given to risk to British society," he said.

Anger over British citizenship classes

A islamic COUNCILLOR has lashed out at Government plans to give Muslim students compulsory British citizenship classes in the wake of terror attacks.The Respect councillor for Sparkbrook Salma Yaqoob hit out at plans outlined today by Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell.Mr Rammell claimed a better understanding of British values is crucial following the July 7 terror attacks on London last year.He suggested citizenship classes for Muslim students were the way to do this. But Mrs Yaqoob claimed classes should be for all British youngsters, not just British Muslims.

M15 INFILTRATED BY AL-QAEDA

TERRORISTS from al-Qaeda have infiltrated Britain's security services, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
Bosses at M15 believe they unwittingly recruited the Muslim extremists after the July 7 suicide bombings in London last year which killed 52 people.
They were signed up as part of a drive to find more Muslims and Arabic speakers to work as spies to help prevent future attacks by Osama bin Laden fantatics.
Spymasters found some of the agents in Britain's universities and colleges and persuaded them to pass on information about suspected terrorists.
But a senior ministerial source has told the Sunday Mirror: "The truth is that it has now been discovered that some of those people have strong links with al-Qaeda.
"There was always a risk that with such a speedy and widespread recruitment some would turn out to be bad eggs
But the recruitment has meant we are now in a much better position to stop al-Qaeda attacks than we have ever been before. Several planned attacks have already been stopped thanks to the high quality of our intelligence." But the disclosure that suspected terrorists have infiltrated the security services will be a further embarrassment to Government Ministers.
They came under ferocious pressure last week after an official report claimed MI5 had failed to follow up vital leads before the July 7 bombings.
The report from the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said greater coverage by M16 - Britain's overseas spies - in Pakistan and more manpower "might have alerted the agencies to the intentions of the July 7 group".
But MI5 director-general Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller is masterminding a campaign to hire hundreds more intelligence officers to the service.
She is looking for IT experts, technicians and language specialists to help monitor "traffic" via emails and phone calls between al-Qaeda terror cells across the world.
MI5 is also offering £27,000 a year for "mobile surveillance officers" to follow targets who are part of "national security investigations".
But the service warns that its strict vetting process means it takes up to eight months to consider applications.
The ISC report last week found that two of the July 7 bombers - Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer - were known to the security services.
But they were not seen as a high priority and M15's manpower was diverted to investigate other suspects.
The pair were among the four suicide bombers who detonated their homemade devices on three Tube trains and a bus in the worst terrorist attack in British history.

Terror suspect numbers soar

MI5 source reveals a 'current, relentless and increasing' security threat since 7 July attacks as radical imam is set to be released from jail

The number of Islamic terror suspects in Britain being targeted by the security service MI5 has soared to 1,200, a 50 per cent rise since the London suicide bombings last July.
In a stark warning about the threat posed by Islamic radicals living in Britain, a senior intelligence source told The Observer that some of the public and politicians were failing to realise the risk facing the UK: 'In July 2005 we had 800 targets. I wish it was still at that level.'
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First victory

THE ludicrous ban on identifying the Afghan jet hijackers to protect their human rights is lifted.
The judge who let them stay in Britain saw sense on this issue yesterday. Meanwhile 35,000 Sun readers want the Human Rights Act axed.
We hope yesterday’s ruling is the first of many victories over this madness.
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Human rights law 'may be changed'

The UK government has said legislation may be brought in to stop the Human Rights Act endangering public safety.
The Lord Chancellor said the act would not be scrapped but could be amended in parliament to ensure its application was not "distracting" officials.
Lord Falconer told the BBC's Sunday AM cases like that of rapist Anthony Rice, who killed a woman while on parole, raised concerns over the law.
Human rights groups said the current concerns were not a fault of the act.
"Amending our human rights act because of gross public service failures is like handing a repeat burglar the key to your house," said Shami Chakrabarti, director of campaign group Liberty.
"Without the act, ordinary people in Britain would have precious little protection from maladministration."
'Political clarity'
The European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into UK law in 1998 through the Human Rights Act.
The deployment of human rights is, often wrongly, leading to wrong conclusions to be made about issues of public safety Lord Falconer
Lord Falconer said the government did not intend to pull out of the convention - a condition of EU membership.
But he said it is considering a programme of education and training or "if necessary" new legislation to make sure it is not wrongly interpreted.
He said there was a "real concern" about the way the Human Rights Act was operating and there needed to be "political clarity" that it would have no effect on public safety issues.
"This is not about an attack on the judges, this is about making clear in particular areas - like example the release of prisoners who might be a danger to society - that public safety comes first," he said.
"We need to be absolutely clear that human rights does not in any way reduce people's public safety."
'Top priority'
The report into Anthony Rice's murder of Naomi Bryant in Winchester last year said officials had considered his human rights above their duties to the public.
It recommended the "top priority focus" in future should be on public protection.
Tories are not against human rights but we think the way the government has done it has led to disasters David Davis shadow home secretary
The act was also cited when the High Court ruled nine Afghan asylum seekers who hijacked a plane could stay in the UK.
The government was criticised by a judge for failing to implement a decision that the men could not be deported as their lives were under threat.
BBC political correspondent Terry Stiastny said some ministers were worried about the public's perception of the act and possible "over interpretation" by officials.
But she added that new legislation was still only a "distant possibility".
Conservative leader David Cameron has pledged to reform, replace or scrap the Human Rights Act if he is elected as he said it is undermining the UK's ability to deal with foreign criminals.
Shadow home secretary David Davis told Sunday AM concerns over the act had been raised by the Conservatives in 1998.
"Tories are not against human rights but we think the way the government has done it has led to disasters."
Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes said: "The answer is to seek better collective protection, not rip up human rights obligations which have stood the test of time and are important guarantees for the rights of us all."

Security services identify 700 potential al-Qa'ida terrorists at large in Britain

At least 700 people suspected of being involved in al-Qa'ida terrorist plots have been identified by MI5 and the police, The Independent understands.
There has been a threefold increase in the number of terror suspects identified by the security service, MI5, since the 11 September attacks in the United States in 2001, security sources have disclosed.
Details of the rise comes as the Government faces a charge of "whitewash" tomorrow over the scrutiny of the intelligence into the 7 July 2005 London bombings, in which 52 passengers were killed as well as four terrorists. The Tories believe the publication of two major reports, due out tomorrow, will fail to answer the question of why the suicide bombers managed to evade detection.
A report by the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee will find no evidence that MI5 or MI6 could have prevented the attacks by a team of British terrorists. The report will raise several questions over the effectiveness of Britain's anti-terrorist operations. It will suggest that intelligence-sharing between Britain and Pakistan is poor, and question why the level of security alert was lowered just before the bombings.
Despite being cleared of blame, the security agencies are certain to come under renewed criticism with the confirmation that they had two of the bombers under surveillance in the months before the attack, and the ring leader, Mohammad Siddique Khan, visited a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
MI5 argue that they had to prioritise their investigations and could only target the key players in the bomb plot they were investigating, which did not include Khan.
The scale of the problem facing Britain's counter-terrorism agencies is highlighted by new figures of suspected terrorists currently under investigation in the UK.
Since the 2001 attacks in the United States, the number of identified al-Qa'ida supporters living in Britain who are considered a threat to national security has risen by 300 per cent, according to security sources. Although a total number has not been confirmed, sources have indicated that it is in the "high hundreds" and "far more" than the most recently quoted figure of 400. A Whitehall source last night put the total at "at least 700" and the police have quoted a figure of 200 in 2001. A security source said: "We are talking about radicals or plotters who would be of interest because of their potential threat to national security.
"There has been a 300 per cent increase since 9/11 in those types of individuals that we are looking at and are concerned about."
A Whitehall source added: "The service [MI5] is currently at a very high level of operational intensity in investigating plotting leading to mass casualty attacks in the UK.
"The current picture is very much like an extremist soup with a number of overlapping networks with a common cause. But these networks aren't attached to each other.
"The picture is changing all the time. Many of the plotters are homegrown and currently living in the UK."
Whitehall sources also disclosed that Islamist extremist groups in Pakistan have stepped up efforts to recruit young British Muslims visiting the country.
The Home Secretary, John Reid, will tomorrow make a statement to the Commons setting out a "narrative" which highlights the need to tackle Muslim fundamentalism in Britain.
The Home Office narrative suggests that the four suicide bombers were "self-taught", picking up tips on bomb-making through the internet. It also says there is nothing to suggest a "fifth bomber" was involved.
In a second, separate report, the intelligence committee of MPs will say that there was no evidence of a formal link between the British bombers and al-Qa'ida.
It will criticise MI5 for lowering the alert against terrorism a month before the 7 July attacks, but will conclude that there was no evidence that a bombing campaign was about to be mounted.
The intelligence-sharing between Britain and Pakistan will be criticised. Despite having a large base in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, MI6 were unaware of visits to the country - and contacts with Islamist groups - by two of the suicide bombers, Khan and Shahzad Tanweer.
The MPs will also protest over the resources allocated to the security services in recent years. The new Home Secretary is expected to argue that such shortfalls are being urgently addressed. MI5, MI6, and the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist branch are all currently undergoing big recruitment drives in order to help plug the intelligence gaps.
Government sources say they are braced for criticism after the publication of the two reports. One source said: "Of course there are unanswered questions - there are still things we do not know."
At least 700 people suspected of being involved in al-Qa'ida terrorist plots have been identified by MI5 and the police, The Independent understands.
There has been a threefold increase in the number of terror suspects identified by the security service, MI5, since the 11 September attacks in the United States in 2001, security sources have disclosed.
Details of the rise comes as the Government faces a charge of "whitewash" tomorrow over the scrutiny of the intelligence into the 7 July 2005 London bombings, in which 52 passengers were killed as well as four terrorists. The Tories believe the publication of two major reports, due out tomorrow, will fail to answer the question of why the suicide bombers managed to evade detection.
A report by the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee will find no evidence that MI5 or MI6 could have prevented the attacks by a team of British terrorists. The report will raise several questions over the effectiveness of Britain's anti-terrorist operations. It will suggest that intelligence-sharing between Britain and Pakistan is poor, and question why the level of security alert was lowered just before the bombings.
Despite being cleared of blame, the security agencies are certain to come under renewed criticism with the confirmation that they had two of the bombers under surveillance in the months before the attack, and the ring leader, Mohammad Siddique Khan, visited a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
MI5 argue that they had to prioritise their investigations and could only target the key players in the bomb plot they were investigating, which did not include Khan.
The scale of the problem facing Britain's counter-terrorism agencies is highlighted by new figures of suspected terrorists currently under investigation in the UK.
Since the 2001 attacks in the United States, the number of identified al-Qa'ida supporters living in Britain who are considered a threat to national security has risen by 300 per cent, according to security sources. Although a total number has not been confirmed, sources have indicated that it is in the "high hundreds" and "far more" than the most recently quoted figure of 400. A Whitehall source last night put the total at "at least 700" and the police have quoted a figure of 200 in 2001. A security source said: "We are talking about radicals or plotters who would be of interest because of their potential threat to national security.
"There has been a 300 per cent increase since 9/11 in those types of individuals that we are looking at and are concerned about."
A Whitehall source added: "The service [MI5] is currently at a very high level of operational intensity in investigating plotting leading to mass casualty attacks in the UK.
"The current picture is very much like an extremist soup with a number of overlapping networks with a common cause. But these networks aren't attached to each other.
"The picture is changing all the time. Many of the plotters are homegrown and currently living in the UK."
Whitehall sources also disclosed that Islamist extremist groups in Pakistan have stepped up efforts to recruit young British Muslims visiting the country.
The Home Secretary, John Reid, will tomorrow make a statement to the Commons setting out a "narrative" which highlights the need to tackle Muslim fundamentalism in Britain.
The Home Office narrative suggests that the four suicide bombers were "self-taught", picking up tips on bomb-making through the internet. It also says there is nothing to suggest a "fifth bomber" was involved.
In a second, separate report, the intelligence committee of MPs will say that there was no evidence of a formal link between the British bombers and al-Qa'ida.
It will criticise MI5 for lowering the alert against terrorism a month before the 7 July attacks, but will conclude that there was no evidence that a bombing campaign was about to be mounted.
The intelligence-sharing between Britain and Pakistan will be criticised. Despite having a large base in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, MI6 were unaware of visits to the country - and contacts with Islamist groups - by two of the suicide bombers, Khan and Shahzad Tanweer.
The MPs will also protest over the resources allocated to the security services in recent years. The new Home Secretary is expected to argue that such shortfalls are being urgently addressed. MI5, MI6, and the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist branch are all currently undergoing big recruitment drives in order to help plug the intelligence gaps.
Government sources say they are braced for criticism after the publication of the two reports. One source said: "Of course there are unanswered questions - there are still things we do not know."

Hijack Afghans win right to stay

Nine Afghan asylum seekers who hijacked a plane to Britain have won their High Court bid to stay in the country until it is safe for them to return home.
The ruling follows the Afghan hostage drama at Stansted Airport in 2000 which led to a four day stand-off.
A total of 78 people from the plane went on to make formal applications for asylum in the UK.
Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe called the ruling "bizarre", and said ministers were considering an appeal.
"It is common sense that, to deter hijacking and international terrorism, individuals should not be rewarded with leave to remain in the UK," said a Home Office spokesman.
"That is why the Home Office introduced a policy that, depending on the circumstances of the case, enabled the secretary of state not to grant leave of any sort to people who are excluded from international protection and instead keep them on temporary admission."
The question of what should happen to the nine and their families had caused a serious clash between the government and the judiciary over human rights law.
The High Court judge expressed his anger over the way ministers failed to follow correct legal procedures and "deliberately delayed" implementing an adjudication appeal panel's decision from two years ago.
The decision in June 2004 meant that, under human rights law, the nine could not be sent back to Afghanistan where their lives would be at risk.
The judge also made an unprecedented order that the Home Office should pay legal costs on an indemnity basis - the highest level possible - to show his "disquiet and concern".

Discouraging hijacking

Successive home secretaries had failed to grant the Afghans discretionary leave to enter the UK.
The nine were only permitted temporary admission, due to fears that to allow them to live and work freely in Britain would amount to "a charter for future hijackers".
However, Mr Justice Sullivan, sitting in London, said: "It is difficult to conceive of a clearer case of 'conspicuous unfairness amounting to an abuse of power'."
The judge went on: "Lest there be any misunderstanding, the issue in this case is not whether the executive should take action to discourage hijacking, but whether the executive should be required to take such action within the law as laid down by Parliament and the courts."
He ordered Home Secretary John Reid to grant the nine "discretionary leave" to remain in the UK, subject to review every six months.
Lawyers for the family said the decision means, subject to any appeal, that the nine and their families will now be able to take up employment and "get onwith their lives".
Following the ruling, the Home Office said: "The hijackers are not deemed to present a threat to the UK's national security at present and it remains our intention to remove them as soon as it is possible to ensure that they can be returned in safety to Afghanistan."

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The Government immediately vowed to appeal against the "human rights" ruling by a High Court judge.
And Prime Minister Tony Blair personally waded into the controversy with a virtually unprecedented attack on a senior member of the judiciary.
He branded the decision "an abuse of common sense" in a saga that has already cost taxpayers £10million.
Mr Blair said: "We can’t have a situation in which people who hijack a plane . . . we are not able to deport back to their country.
"It is not an abuse of justice for us to order their deportation.
"It is an abuse of common sense, frankly, to be in a position where we can’t do this."
His fury was a direct swipe at a judge who accused three Home Secretaries of abuse of power in trying to deport the Afghans.
And Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said: "It is common sense that, to deter hijacking and international terrorism, individuals should not be rewarded with leave to remain in he UK."
Tory leader David Cameron also blasted the ruling. He said: "I think it is frankly wrong when we are doing so much to make Afghanistan a safer country that decisions like these are made."
The nine were fleeing the Taliban, who were ousted in 2001.
Their cases will be regularly reviewed as the situation changes in Afghanistan.
If they are still here after five years, they can be given indefinite leave to remain. The families will be able to apply for British citizenship five years after that.
The judge ruled it was the hijackers’ "human right" to remain despite the Home Office vowing to boot them back to Kabul.
Mr Justice Sullivan, sitting in London, said previous Home Secretaries Jack Straw, David Blunkett and Charles Clarke "deliberately" ignored the rulings of an immigration appeal panel as they devised ways to deport the Afghans.
The judge added the issue was NOT whether Ministers should discourage hijackings — but to uphold the law. He said: "It is difficult to conceive of a clearer case of conspicuous unfairness amounting to an abuse of power."
Immediately after the hijack, then Home Secretary Mr Straw pledged his "utter determination" to deport the the Afghans fast.
They were all jailed for five years in January 2002 for hijack, possessing firearms and explosives and false imprisonment in one of the most costly cases in English legal history.
But they were freed 15 months later when the Appeal Court ruled their convictions were unsafe because of a judge’s error in his summing up.
Since then, the gang have been living rent-free, claiming benefits and driving flash cars at taxpayers’ expense. Two years ago The Sun tracked them down to four £250,000 houses in West London.
They spent their days visiting visiting relatives, chatting on mobiles, watching videos or playing on computers.
Mr Justice Sullivan also PUNISHED the Home Office yesterday by ordering it to pay costs at the highest level.
Other politicians of all sides were stunned at the ruling. Former Home Secretary David Blunkett also hit back at the attack on him. He said: "It is the obligation of any Home Secretary to act in the interests of the British public.
"Any judge who fails to understand the signals which are sent in difficult circumstances such as this has missed the point.
"We have international obligations to discourage hijacking at all costs. This means considering any measures to remove them from the country. That is what all three Home Secretaries sought to do." Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe called it "bizarre."
His colleague Mr McNulty — responsible for immigration — said: "It remains our intention to remove them as soon as possible to ensure that they can be returned in safety to Afghanistan."
Essex Conservative MP Sir Alan Haselhurst, said: "I don’t think we should be party to anything which makes it seem hijacking an aircraft is a way to freedom."
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "We are surprised by this decision. Thousands of allied troops remain in Afghanistan maintaining the peace."
Sir Andrew Green, of immigration think-tank Migrationwatch, said: "This is not an abuse of ministerial power — it is an absence of common sense in the legal system. The judge was interpreting the European Convention but with a ridiculous result."
Yesterday’s decision by Mr Justice Sullivan means the hijackers and their families can stay in Britain as refugees — and could eventually get British passports.

Human rights law 'may be changed'

Islamic cleric fights deportation

A radical Islamic cleric who has been accused of being a leading figure in al-Qaeda is starting a legal attempt to prevent his deportation from the UK.
Abu Qatada, who is currently in prison, will try to persuade the Special Immigration Appeals Commission that he should not be sent to Jordan.
It is the first test of a government agreement with another country meant to guarantee a deportee's safety.
However Abu Qatada's lawyers will argue that it does not guarantee his safety.
The SIAC has already described Abu Qatada as "a truly dangerous individual" at the centre of terrorist activities associated with al-Qaeda in the UK.
Terror convictions
Abu Qatada came to the UK with his family as a refugee in the mid-90s. He was originally detained under anti-terrorist measures in 2002.
After the Law Lords ruled that detention unlawful, he was released and put on a control order.
He was then re-arrested, with a view to deportation to Jordan, where he has been convicted of terrorist offences.
The UK has signed an agreement with Jordan that anyone sent back there will not be tortured or killed.

Islamic cleric 'risk to security'

A radical Islamic cleric who has been accused of being a leading figure in al-Qaeda was a risk to UK security, a deportation hearing has been told.
Abu Qatada is trying to persuade the Special Immigration Appeals Commission that he should not be sent to Jordan.
It is the first test of a government agreement with another country meant to guarantee a deportee's safety.
His lawyer said the case relied on US evidence obtained using "torture" which should be ruled inadmissible.
A man held in Afghanistan was "repeatedly subjected to torture and ill-treatment by the US authorities with a view to forcing him to provide details against the appellant," Edward Fitzgerald QC told the London hearing.
Abu Qatada, who did not attend the hearing, has previously denied he was connected to al-Qaeda.
'Support base'
Ian Burnett QC, for the home secretary said 44-year-old Abu Qatada was a "danger to national security".

The Security Service assesses that the appellant constructed a support base within the United Kingdom for terrorism-related activities Ian Burnett QC Government counsel
"Since at least 1995, the appellant has given encouragement to the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorism overseas by providing spiritual and religious advice," Mr Burnett claimed.
"The Security Service assesses that the appellant constructed a support base within the United Kingdom for terrorism-related activities abroad and in the UK." The UK has signed an agreement with Jordan so that anyone sent back will not be tortured or killed.
Abu Qatada's lawyer is expected to argue that the guarantee is inadequate.
Mr Burnett said the so-called memorandums of understanding were not "strictly speaking, a document which is legally binding in international law".
But he said "personal, political and diplomatic commitment" has been made in the negotiations to secure the agreement with Jordan.
There were not "substantial grounds" for believing Abu Qatada would be at "real risk of proscribed ill-treatment" on return.
Terrorism conviction
Abu Qatada came to the UK with his family as a refugee in the mid-1990s. He was originally detained under anti-terrorist measures in 2002.
After the Law Lords ruled that detention unlawful, he was released and put under a control order.
He was then re-arrested, with a view to deportation to Jordan, where he has been convicted of terrorist offences.
In December, Abu Qatada made a video appeal to the kidnappers of British peace activist Norman Kember in Iraq.
The recording, made inside Full Sutton jail, near York, where he was being held pending the deportation decision, was broadcast in the Middle East.
Mr Kember and two other hostages were eventually freed in a planned operation by multi-national forces in March.
Al-Qaeda 'links'
Mr Burnett said the government believed Abu Qatada had "associated, or sought to associate, with known Islamic extremists" after he was released from prison on the control order in March 2005.
He alleged: "The appellant has links with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, now assessed to be part of the al-Qaeda network, through Ayman Al-Zawahiri its sometime leader - who then became, in effect, Osama Bin Laden's number two."
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He also claimed Abu Qatada was a "close associate" of Algerian Islamic extremist Abu Doha and the "spiritual leader" to the Al-Tawhid movement, headed by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, "who has gone on to international fame as a result of his murderous activities in Iraq".

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Police launch appeal over cartoon protest

Three men filmed by police taking part in Muhammad cartoon protests. Photograph: Metropolitan police

Scotland Yard was today forced to issue a public appeal for help in tracking down protesters it filmed during a demonstration against satirical cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.

The Metropolitan police said they were still trying to trace three men who took part in the demonstration outside the Danish embassy on February 3.

During the protest, placards were paraded demanding the "massacre" of "those who insult Islam".

In the days following the demonstration, the police faced fierce criticism for not arresting demonstrators on the spot. They instead took video footage of the demonstration and said "arrests, if necessary, would be made at the appropriate time".

A Met spokesman said the men were "wanted in connection with serious public order offences which we believe may have been committed during the protest".

He defended the decision not make arrests at the time, saying officers policing the demonstration "had to weigh up" the effect their actions would have on the overall public order situation.

We have already identified and charged a number of individuals in relation to the demonstration," he said.

At the time, police had said they did not want to inflame the situation.

A special squad, under the code name Operation Laverda, was set up by the Met's post-event investigation unit to review 60 hours of CCTV and footage and investigate 500 complaints from the public.

During the rally, some protesters held placards with slogans such as "Behead those who insult Islam" and "Europe will pay, the Fantastic 4 are on their way" - an apparent reference to the July 7 bombers who killed 52 people on London's transport network.

The only arrests made were those of two freedom of speech campaigners protesting in favour of the right to publish images of Muhammad.

The police's tactics sparked cross-party calls by MPs to pursue those responsible on the grounds that the threats were an incitement to murder.

Peter Hain, the Northern Ireland secretary, said the police should "bear down ... very heavily" on protesters acting in an "intolerable" way.

The shadow attorney general, Dominic Grieve, told GMTV it was "not a happy state of affairs" when demonstrators acting in such a way "don't end up under arrest before the demonstration is ended".

Six people have since been arrested in connection with the police investigation.

The London demonstration was one of a number of sometimes violent protests against the publication of images of the prophet - which is against Islamic tradition - in a number of European newspapers

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Bakri aide arrested

ISLAMIC firebrand Anjem Choudary was arrested yesterday trying to leave Britain before he could be charged with organising the London cartoon demos.He was held with fellow suspect Abdul Muhid at Stansted. They were about to board a flight to Ireland.Choudary, right-hand man of exiled hate preacher Omar Bakri, was due to answer bail today on allegations of inciting racial hatred.The dad-of-three was originally arrested at his home in Ilford, East London, in March.He is expected to be charged with offences related to demos sparked when a Danish magazine published a cartoon of Mohammed.A security source said: "The most likely scenario is they were planning to stay in Ireland before joining Bakri in Beirut."

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Two in court after cartoon demo

The former UK head of radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun has been charged over the Muslim cartoon protests in London in February,

Anjem Choudary, 39, of Ilford, Essex, was bailed after being charged with organising the protest without notifying the police.
Abdul Muhid, 23, of East London, was charged with two counts of soliciting to murder. He was remanded in custody.
Demonstrations were held outside the Danish Embassy on 3 February.
Many Muslims were angry about cartoons in which the Prophet Mohammed was satirised.
Mr Choudary has been bailed to appear before Bow Street Magistrates Court on 11 May while Mr Muhid will appear before the Old Bailey on 23 June.
Both men were arrested at Stansted Airport on Thursday for an alleged breach of bail and taken into custody at a London police station.
They were originally arrested in March, in the wake of the protests which swept across the world.

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Sister 'killed over love affair'

A woman was murdered by her brother for falling in love with the wrong man, an Old Bailey jury has been told.
It is alleged Samaira Nazir, 25, was stabbed 18 times and had her throat cut after asking her family if she could marry a man from Afghanistan.
Azhar Nazir, 30, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, deny murdering her at the family home in Southall, west London, in April 2005.
Her parents allegedly wanted her to marry in the Pakistani family circle.
Asylum seeker Salman Mohammed befriended Miss Nazir's brother shortly after arriving in the UK on the back of a lorry in 2000.
The court heard he and Miss Nazir kept their relationship secret.
Sally Howes, prosecuting, said the situation reached "crisis point" when Miss Nazir suggested that she would like to marry Mr Mohammed. Her brother reacted angrily, the court heard.
She said: "Following a heated argument about her relationship with Salman, she was attacked and killed.
"It would appear she lost her life for loving the wrong man."
The court was told that neighbours reported hearing screams and saw Miss Nazir's arm come out of the front door before she was pulled back into the house by her hair.
A 999 call was made from the family home and a man told the operator he had killed Miss Nazir.
When police arrived both defendants had blood on them while Miss Nazir's body was in the hallway, the court heard.
Miss Howes said Mr Nazir's defence was he did not take part in the stabbing.
She also said the 17-year-old accepted carrying out the stabbing but claims diminished responsibility.
The trial continues.