Britain finalised a new plan on Wednesday to help deport or bar Islamic radicals who promote terrorism in the wake of last month’s London bombings and said it will be implemented within days. Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the list of so-called ”unacceptable behaviours” will counter the ”real and significant” threat of terrorism.
Britain was due on Wednesday to unveil a list of ”unacceptable behaviour” aimed at forcing the deportation of Islamic radicals in the wake of last month’s deadly London bombings. The measures come as a newspaper reported the bombs used in the July 7 London attacks were manually activated by button-like devices.
An independent police complaints panel said on Tuesday it will finish a report into the fatal London shooting of a Brazilian man wrongly suspected of being a suicide bomber by the end of the year — but the findings will not be published until all other proceedings linked to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes are completed.
Human rights experts and a radical Islamic group have blasted a raft of new powers to combat terrorism in Britain unveiled by Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday, while mainstream Muslims applauded them. The measures include the banning of certain hard-line Islamic groups.
British police interrogated their first captured London bombing suspect, arrested nine more men and poured officers into London underground stations on Thursday as chilling details emerged of a large-scale terrorist battle plan.
The four suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7 left a car packed with 16 bombs, newspapers said on Thursday, with one claiming that the devices were made by the same person who armed a second wave of attackers two weeks later.
The British police have yet to officially confirm media reports that the London attacks, which left at least 52 people dead, were the work of suicide bombers, but Home Secretary Charles Clarke has spoken of the influences that led ”four young men to blow themselves and others up on the Tube on a Thursday morning”.
More and more people will cycle into London this week as the fear of being caught in a terrorist attack on public transport overrides concerns of being knocked off their bike by a car, experts say. Sales of bikes — from fold-away models to multi-gear machines — have rocketed at cycle shops across the capital since last Thursday.
Bunches of flowers and an array of candles sat above London’s ”Underground Zero” site on Sunday, where deep beneath the earth the twisted wreckage of a train lay buried with up to 20 bodies still onboard.
Bob Geldof, the force behind the biggest global music rally to help end poverty in Africa, has been raging against injustice since he burst onto the world stage as a young rock star in the 1970s. Three days ahead of his Live8 concerts, Geldof is one of the world’s most admired advocates for debt cancellation, greater aid and freer trade in Africa.