January 22, 2004

PM lets 'evil' Brits into UK

TONY Blair is pressing ahead with bringing Brits held at Guantanamo Bay home despite warnings they pose a serious threat to national security.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon and Home Secretary David Blunkett have told the PM that at least four of the detainees are “evil people”.

Mr Blair has decided to allow home some of the nine Brits held by America at Camp Delta in Cuba after the Afghanistan war. But their presence will pose a permanent security risk, according to official documents seen by The Sun.

Captive ... detainees at Guantanamo Bay camp

One Cabinet source said: “Nobody wants these people here, on any account.

“Three or four of them are really bad people, evil people. Cabinet ministers have made their views clear at the very highest level. But it appears others’ views have prevailed.”

MI6 and MI5 chiefs[For those of us in America, MI5 is like our FBI, dealing with domestic security, and MI6 is the British equivalent of the CIA, handling overseas intelligence.--Jen] have both added their weight to the warnings from the Cabinet protesters. But Mr Blair has already agreed with US officials all nine British detainees should be released from Camp Delta.

They will never face trial in Britain because they were arrested by US soldiers in Afghanistan and there is not enough evidence to try them here.

They will be freed immediately they land back in Britain despite the intelligence warnings.

The Britons earmarked for release include:

Feroz Abbasi, 23, of Croydon, South London; Moazzam Begg, 36, of Sparkhill, Birmingham; Shafiq Rasool, 24, Asif Iqbal, 20 and Ruhal Ahmed, 23, all of Tipton, West Midlands; Martin Mubanga, 29, from North London; Jamal Udeen, 35, of Manchester; Richard Belmar, 23, of London; Tarek Dergoul, 24, of East London and Tariq Mahmood, 30, of Birmingham.

British officials are in talks with the US state department over the timing of their release.

In the meantime, on the subject of jihadi killers at large in Great Britain, the Sun is repeating its appeal of a year ago to its readers to have Captain Hook Abu Hamza deported from the UK.
Hamza is not only still preaching the violent overthrow of the government and death to non-Muslims, but he's doing so with costly police protection while he and his family live on substantial government funds.
Interestingly, some of the thousands in Britain who are the most outraged by Hamza's very visible presence and by events such as Kilroy's firing from the BBC are themselves Muslims, who feel that focus on the radical, murderous adherents of Islam is giving their religion a bad name.
Good for them.
And although Americans may not be aware of it, Britain has an illegal immigration problem as bad or worse than America's--people from everywhere seek asymlum in the UK and are quickly received and put on the "dole" (welfare) rolls, almost without qualification.
Check out this email about the Captain Hook problem from a Muslim Briton, which I think may speak for thousands of peaceful British Muslims:

Liton Ali wrote in an email: “I am a moderate Muslim.

“I don’t always pray five times a day. I do what I can. I certainly do NOT believe a word of Abu Hamza’s rantings and do NOT consider that all non-Muslims are infidels destined for hell.

“I am in no position to judge the afterlife.

“Abu Hamza has done untold damage to race relations and caused harm to Muslims in the West.

“No decent law-abiding Muslim wants him in the UK. Deport him, just put an end to his rantings.”

Liton went on to lay into the Government’s atrocious record on dealing with dangerous fanatics.

He said: “I am furious with New Labour for allowing such lunatics so many rights in the UK.

“I’m also furious that such people can claim £20,000 plus a year in benefits.

“He would be stupid to leave — which other country gives you a generous handout while you pour poison on them?

“This case shows how soft Britain is. No wonder would-be immigrants flee so-called persecution in France and risk life to cross the Channel.

“What confidence can we have in Labour’s handling of immigration if even Hamza cannot be deported?

“In fact he is not alone. Others, while more discreet, are also milking the system and quietly spouting poison.
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“That means there are millions of illegals in the UK, all of whom will never leave.

“They are here to stay and to make a monkey of the system.

“And as if that was not enough — one’s blood boils at the incompetence of this Government.

“A million gypsies are coming straight into the already overstretched welfare system. It’s madness! I will never, ever vote Labour.”

Obviously, Tony Blair could learn some more from his friend George W. Bush.
Britain needs a Patriot Act and major immigration reform, akin to the plan Bush is proposing for us.
Poor, deluded Blair and his colleagues in the Labor Party have let their Liberal do-gooderism rob them of good sense and now Great Britain is at major risk of IslamoFascist terror attacks, because for the radical jihadis, Islam is not just a religion, but a political system (and economic one, too, of sorts).
Let's hope that we can make Blair see sense about these Gitmo prisoners before it's too late.
As for Hook/Hamza, the Sun has made it clear what to do with he and his "brethen" in jihad and fatwa.
Back in America, a few bleeding hearts are already whining about the "cruel" military tribunals about to take place for the rest of the Camp X-Ray criminals, so fasten your seatbelts.
I'll bet those doomed people that were murdered in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and in Shanksville on Flight 93 on 9/11/01 wish they'd gotten so much warning, fair treatment, consideration and respect for their human rights and civil liberties before their lives were so brutally taken.
I only hope that the British people don't have to suffer through a similar day of slaughter to take appropriate security measures.