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Top spy fears nuclear terror atack
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Mr Halevy pointed to UK intelligence indicating there were 200 groups of terrorist cells still operating. "There's no reason to believe these groups will evaporate into thin air. We have to take it for granted (they) are hatching plots of one kind or another," he said.
He argued for much broader detention powers in the West. "There is merit in having legislation that allows you to keep a detainee suspect much longer without giving him access to lawyers," he said. Mr Halevy did not apologise for this stance, given the global terrorism threat: "You have to protect human rights. But what is the No. 1 human right? It is the right to live."
Story of an American detained overseas
Last month, an American citizen who spent over a year imprisoned in the Middle East was quietly freed by his captors in the United Arab Emirates. That man, Naji Hamdan, is now reunited with his family in Beruit, Lebanon. In his first broadcast interview since being freed, Hamdan spoke to me about his ordeal.
Hamdan is a 43-year-old Lebanese-American who spent 20 years living in southern California. Until three weeks ago, he was jailed by the UAE in a terrorism case still shrouded in mystery.
Hamdan spent 14 months behind bars in what he and his attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union call "proxy detention," suggesting that Hamdan was detained by the UAE at the request of the United States.
"Without a doubt. Without a single doubt in my mind," Hamdan says.
Hamdan spoke to me by telephone from Beruit, discussing his captivity and trial in which he wasn't permitted to testify. He stood accused of supporting terrorism and participating in a terrorist group. But even as it convicted him, the UAE never made clear what he allegedly did.