Al-Qaïda et l'Angleterre: mouvement solidement implanté?

Les dangers selon The Telegraph... Des retombées des infos de Wikileaks au sujet de Guantanamo.

The revelations leaked to this newspaper about the US government's detention facility at Guantánamo Bay raise profound questions about the scale and nature of the Islamist threat to the West and the way it is being confronted. In particular, nothing is more unsettling than the confirmation that al-Qaeda and its offshoots are deeply embedded in this country. A picture emerges of London as the hub of a global terrorist network whose ambition to cause death and destruction remains undimmed.
According to the documents, some of London's mosques acted as a "haven" for extremists and a "key transit facility" for terrorists en route from North Africa to al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. Abu Qatada, allegedly Osama bin Laden's senior European representative, and his deputy, Abu Hamza, used their "preaching" in those mosques to radicalise young recruits from the Middle East and the Maghreb. Evidence has also emerged relating to the 18 Britons detained in Guantánamo. Regarded by their American interrogators as "high risk", some of them are alleged to have fought against British forces in Afghanistan. Their punishment, in most cases, has been to receive substantial compensation from the British taxpayer.
The key lesson of these disclosures is that they expose our folly in not being more robust with the suspected terrorists living among us. Attempts to deport suspects, or those who indoctrinate them, have been persistently thwarted by the courts on human rights grounds. This led to the introduction of control orders – which run counter to this country's traditions of personal liberty – as the only mechanism with which such suspects could be effectively monitored. The Coalition is in the process of replacing them with Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, which the Home Secretary says will be more "focused and flexible", though critics claim they will be little more than "control orders lite".
This is unsatisfactory. Lord Carlile, who spent nine years as the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has argued that suspects should be returned to their home countries provided assurances are secured that they will not be ill-treated. France uses this "deportation with assurances" system successfully, yet British courts routinely block such attempts. The Guantánamo leaks reveal how potentially dangerous our obsession with the rights of terrorist suspects can be. There has been no lethal outrage since the 2005 bombings – and given what we have learnt from these leaks, that is a tribute to the skill and dedication of the security services and police. Yet still we expect them to defend us from harm with one hand tied behind their backs.

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