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Britain is facing a "very great threat" from a wave of plots among Muslim extremists and a terrorist attack on the UK is highly likely, Home Secretary John Reid said on Wednesday. Echoing a warning last week by the head of domestic spy agency MI5, Reid said authorities were aware of 30 active terrorist plots. "There are a lot of conspiracies out there," Reid told BBC radio. "These 30 are the ones we think are the most serious of them. They are ongoing, they are working, and they have the potential... some will be nearer preparation than others." Asked how...

A row over Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw's remarks that it would be better for social integration if Muslim women did not veil their faces refused to die down on Sunday. The comments last week by Straw provoked Muslim ire, political tremors and public commentaries that he had voiced a feeling silently held by many people. The row erupted after Straw, whose northern English constituency has a large Muslim population, revealed that he asked visitors to his office to remove their veils, saying they acted as "a visible statement of separation and difference". But he defended Muslims'...

JOHN REID, the home secretary, is heading for a showdown with the judiciary over plans to strip some terror suspects of the automatic right to be protected from torture.Reid is preparing a new anti-terror law that would sideline human rights legislation protecting suspects from torture if ministers ruled there were “overriding considerations of national security”. The move is aimed at foreign terrorist suspects, including 32 detained in prison without charge or being monitored on strict bail conditions. Despite Tony Blair’s pledge after last year’s suicide bombings in London to deport them, not one has been forcibly sent home because of...

British home secretary John Reid was verbally assaulted by Islamist nut sandwich Abu Izzadeen today, as he gave a speech asking Muslim parents to watch their children for signs of radicalism: Reid barracked during speech to Muslim parents. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The home secretary, John Reid, was today heckled by protesters as he made a speech in east London urging Muslim parents to monitor their children.The first interruption came from Abu Izadeen, who shouted that Muslims were being subjected to “state terrorism by the British police”. His intervention came as Mr Reid asked Muslim parents to keep a close...

British minister infuriates Muslims By ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Britain's top law-and-order official warned Muslim parents on Wednesday to watch their children closely for signs of extremism. Home Secretary John Reid told an audience of Muslims in London that they must do their part in a "battle of values," the Home Office said. Aug. 15 feature: British Muslims blame extremism on Tony Blair's foreign policy Reid's words infuriated an angry listener, who began to yell back at the minister during his speech and had to be escorted out of the room. "There is no nice way of saying this," Reid said,...

EXCLUSIVE More Home Office lunacy Broadmoor ... the grim home of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe     By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON Political Editor COPS are desperately hunting FIVE HUNDRED foreign prisoners set free from mental hospitals, it was sensationally revealed yesterday. The shock figure — on TOP of the 1,019 who have been released from jails without being booted out of Britain — sparked uproar last night.Dangermen who have gone free are believed to include murderers, rapists and child-sex perverts.   Bleak ... Rampton, where baby killer Beverley Allitt is heldPicture: REUTERS   They had been held at maximum-security hospitals such...

ALARM - a plane leaves the runway to Afghanistan and makes several casualties KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) - a military aircraft left the runway of the airport of Lashkargha, in the south of Afghanistan, making several casualties and perhaps deaths, indicated Monday the local authorities.