Posted on 07/11/2005 7:00:10 PM PDT by blam
Crackdown on Muslim clerics who preach hate
By George Jones, John Steele and Catriona Davies
(Filed: 12/07/2005)
New laws to catch people planning acts of terrorism will be fast-tracked through Parliament if the police and security services investigating the London bombings want extra powers, Tony Blair promised yesterday.
As the first of more than 50 victims of the blasts was officially named, Mr Blair said the Government was considering clamping down on radical Muslim clerics who were "inciting hatred".
Vanessa Sykes comforts Caroline hall after laying flowers near King's Cross station yesterday
He promised one of the most "vigorous and intensive" manhunts ever seen to find those responsible for Thursday's bombing of three Underground trains and a double-deck bus.
Hundreds of detectives are working on the hunt, securing closed circuit television footage from all stations through which the trains passed and on the route used by the No 30 bus on which a bomber is thought to have blown himself up, possibly accidentally.
Mr Blair said it seemed probable that the bombs had been planted by "Islamist extremist terrorists" of the kind responsible for September 11 and last year's attacks on trains in Madrid.
Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, said the Government would do "whatever it takes and spend whatever is necessary" to defend the public.
Michael Howard, the Conservative leader, and other MPs cast aside normal party politics to praise the "resolute and statesmanlike" way the Prime Minister had responded to the tragedy.
The Tory leader soft-pedalled on Conservative demands for an inquiry into any intelligence failings and pledged full support in tackling the terrorist threat.
Mr Blair responded by promising to seek cross-party consensus on any new anti-terrorism laws, including measures to catch and convict those helping to plan terrorist activity, or glorify and condone acts of terror.
The Government's current plan is to publish an anti-terrorism Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny this autumn and introduce it in Parliament next spring. That means that it might not be on the statute book for another year.
But Mr Blair said that if it became clear as the investigation proceeded that the police and security agencies needed new powers immediately, the Government would accelerate the timetable.
He told MPs that a two-minute silence would be held throughout the country on Thursday, with a memorial service attended by the Queen to be held at a date to be arranged.
The number of confirmed deaths was 52, Scotland Yard said, although Mr Blair indicated that it could still rise.
Fifty-one bodies have been removed from the scenes of the bombings and one victim died in hospital last week. Mr Blair said that 74 families, including relatives of badly injured passengers, were receiving help from police family liaison officers.
All bodies have been recovered from the trains at Liverpool Street and Edgware Road and from the scene of the bus bombing in Tavistock Square, and all "visible bodies" have been recovered from the Piccadilly Line near King's Cross.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, acknowledged the distress and frustration of families who had been waiting to learn the fate of those still missing.
"I appeal to everybody to give us time," he said. "We will identify people as quickly as we can but this is the biggest crime scene in English history and we have got to get it right."
Sir Ian emphasised that the police, who are answering to the Westminster coroner, Dr Paul Knapman, were faced with a slow process of identification.
It involved finding forensic proof, including dental records, fingerprints and DNA, or corroborative material, such as relatives' descriptions or documents found on bodies, to establish the identity with certainty.
Much of the difficulty has arisen because of the mutilated state of the bodies, many ripped apart by the force of up to 10lb of high explosives in confined areas. However, sources said they hoped to complete many identifications by the weekend.
Susan Levy, 53, from Cuffley, Herts, was the first victim to be named formally yesterday. An inquest was opened and adjourned.
"Radical Islam is an insane murder cult; moderate Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West."
Would you say most iraqis are moderate muslims or radical muslims?
Moderate, as most Muslims are. But in the West, moderate Muslim communities become the vessel which bring and harbor and camouflage the insane murder cultists.
"We refuse to allow our faith to be held hostage by the criminal actions of a tiny minority acting outside the teachings of the Quran and the teaching of Prophet Muhammad."
The guy lies out of his teeth. They have been exposed for the past few years to more people, as all the verses of the Qu'ran are available on a regular basis. Either that or this goon never learned much about the tenents of Islam. Invade, conquer in the name of allah the black stone sin god, and subjugate them, if they are people of the book (jews,chritians) if you feel good that day, and they can pay up required taxes, spare them if they convert, if they don't ,head removal time. The other pagans, just whack off their heads, this pleases allah the stone.
Surely this rughead must understand we are now wise to their cults goals to take the world over in the name of the stone.
So they lie to themselves on a daily basis much like they have been doing for thousands of years, actually much earlier then the screw ball prophet came along. Goes back to the total rejection by their cousins. Abraham by Sara and later Katurah put all this into play.
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Their 'liberals' just like the ones here...wont let them
their fellow travelers and paid for govt stooges wont either.
Cruel irony or meaningless coincidence that the first casualty has a Jewish surname?
Take care of the problem once and for all: kill 'em.
"decent Muslims"
No such thing exists. If you believe so, you have been fooled by a culture that prides itself in deceit.
What are those sound bytes? From radio stations in London?
It seems to me they should have done this long ago. When will people learn that liberals are destroying the world anyway?
Since it is your opinion they don't exist, there is nothing more to say.
So tell me, what are we doing in Iraq then?
Post: "decent Muslims"
Reply: "No such thing exists. If you believe so, you have been fooled by a culture that prides itself in deceit."
Counter Reply: "So tell me, what are we doing in Iraq then?"
We need a stable source of oil to replace Saudi oil when the House of Saud becomes the House of Sand. In stabilizing Iraq we rid the ME of a terrorist-associated dictatorial regime that had, at some point, WMDs; and we establish a base from which to operate in the ME, which we will need to do for the next several decades; at the same time that we ensure an oil supply. It wasn't done the way that I would have done it. But then I'm not a military strategist not a foreign relations expert. There has seldom been a time in history where just people have not had to sleep with the devil, as distasteful as it may be, in order to maintain their status quo. The key is that long term change must be the goal along keeping the devil in that most vulverable when he is comfortably snuggled up against you.
"I must correct you on one tiny detail.
We don't call them rug or towel heads anymore. Technically their headgear is more equivalent to a sheet.
Therefore they should be called "sheetheads."
Another freeper corrected me on this "vital" technicality."
Thank you for correcting my oversight. I shall be more carefull in the future to address these shitheads as shitheads.
Semper Fi
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