Anti-terror Laws Rapped as Suspects Flee UK

Via todayszaman.com -

Britain's anti-terrorism strategy faced mounting criticism on Thursday after an embarrassing announcement that three men suspected of planning attacks on British or US troops abroad had absconded.

Police said the men, two of whom are brothers of a man jailed last month for plotting al-Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain, had violated anti-terrorism control orders and failed to check in with authorities last week. This means that more than a quarter of those subject to the orders, imposed on terrorism suspects who are not charged with a crime, are now missing after the disappearance of at least two other suspects last year. Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of anti-terrorism laws, told the BBC the security services believe the three men had wanted to target British troops in Iraq or elsewhere. These three men were the subject of solid intelligence that they intended, not to cause damage in the UK, but that they intended to damage our national security by going as insurgents to kill British and other allied troops abroad, he said.