Friday, August 19, 2005

There's no such thing as total security / The Guardian, 19 Aug 2005

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,15935,1552359,00.html
Richard Norton-Taylor
"Scarcely a day goes by without reports of a new terrorist attack being planned and hyped-up claims about the bombings in London last month. Yet there is no evidence of a 'mastermind' behind the July 7 suicide bombings and no evidence of any link between those attacks and the attempted bombings of July 21. There is certainly no evidence of any link between the attacks and the nonviolent Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which Tony Blair now wants to proscribe, or to the cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, now banned from returning to Britain.
No, what evidence there is existed already. Whatever one's view about these and other organisations and individuals, there was no new intelligence to trigger new action against them."