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Three Muslims held under draconian anti terror law

Anne | 15.02.2009 01:52 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression | World

Nine Muslims were arrested under the draconian anti terror law on the M65 motorway, near Preston, Lancashire, Friday at 9pm, according to the police.

The vehicles were apparently going to Gaza in the 'Aid Convoy' from the UK through Europe. On one of the vans were signs saying 'No Justice, no peace', 'Stop Killing Children' and 'Free Palestine'. Another was adorned with the Palestinian flag.



Nine Muslims were arrested under the draconian anti terror law on the M65 motorway, near Preston, Lancashire, Friday at 9pm, according to the police.

Six were released later without charge. Three continue to be held in custody.

According to local media, pictures from the incident - courtesy of MJP Media - appeared to show two vans had been pulled over by police.

On one of the vans were signs saying 'No Justice, no peace', 'Stop Killing Children' and 'Free Palestine'.

Another was adorned with the Palestinian flag.

"The arrests are part of an ongoing intelligence-led operation and investigation by Lancashire Constabulary and the North West Counter Terrorism Unit," said a spokeswoman for Lancashire Police. They were arrested and held under Terrorism Act 2006.

Police say the three men are aged 36, 29 and 26.

Anne
- Homepage: http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=15749

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Anti-Terrorism police psycopaths

15.02.2009 02:56

We hear today of a small group of UK Anti-Terrorism police psycopaths once again spreading racist hate terror by arresting Humanitarian Aid Convoy volunteers who oppose Zionist ideology. Let's hope those in the know will note the identities of the vermin behind this decision and bide their time.

Isn't it about time we purged these growing pockets of evil from the British police?

Anti-terror police search homes after arrests police seize three vans and search homes and find zip diddley of course

 http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE51D1NH20090214

Tony
- Homepage: http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=16753&sid=0de7d7f01d4c1145abe118a37b88e102


query

15.02.2009 10:06

Does anyone know more about this? An initial outraged message was sent out by Viva Palestina who organize the convoy. It said updates on the arrests could be received from its website  http://www.vivapalestina.org/home.htm.

But they have suddenly gone very quiet about it. They don't mention anything on their site, not have they issued a press release.

anon


No pretence of any law.

15.02.2009 12:09

From all the articles I've read, there is absolutely nothing about why or what they were stopped for, only the bullsh*t of '...stopped under the terrorism act...'. There's not even the usual attempted lies to try and justify this crime against humanity! Has anyone heard any of the excuses?

So now the zionist police federation is stopping aid to the entrenched Palestinian people, as if it wasn't bad enough having zionist warships threatening humanitarian aid ships. and lo and behold, the bloody stop the war/respect mongrels are keeping this sh*t quiet - which seems to be becoming their usual modus operandi. Send out the right sounding signals, get good people to put themselves in harms way (not the organisers though?), and forget them when their in trouble.

I thought (perhaps mistakenly) that to give aid to an enemy was an act of Treason? So how is it that the police are not, right this minute, being put before a FIRING SQUAD?!?!

F***ing traitors!

SteveJ


nothing to see here

15.02.2009 19:13

"Let's hope those in the know will note the identities of the vermin behind this decision and bide their time. "

"those in the know"... "note ... identities"... "Vermin".... "bide their time".

Noooo, nothing at all terrorist or dodgy about that statement. Mind you, I would like to see what happens when you try to intimidate one of those anti-terrorist cops, especially the trigger happy loons that carry guns and don't know the difference between an electrician and one of your buddies!

nothing to see here


wating for details...

15.02.2009 19:22

It may be a case that they are terrorists from what i read. Can't really judge until all the details come. They don't really release details until they get to court (if can scupper the court case)

dave


Maybe the 3 who are being held are terrorists?

15.02.2009 21:18

Is it possible that the 3 who are being held are terrorists who were using the aid convoy as cover?

liam


Use your common sense Liam

15.02.2009 22:07


Liam wrote:

"Is it possible that the 3 who are being held are terrorists who were using the aid convoy as cover?"


Liam, this is precisely what "a senior police source" claimed, according to the war lobby's favorite broadsheet The Times.

Being the shameless liars they are, of course the police will use such arguments to cover their dodgy deeds! They are desperately trying to peddle the same old line over and over again, until even the most clueless people like you wake up one day...


Inka


inka

15.02.2009 22:21

but you have to admit that there has been and still are terrorists. The most graphic example is those terrorists who blew up the buses in london. There have been many cases of attempted bombings in the UK.

To dismiss EVERY arrest as wrongly is not illogical. The only logical reason that you would do is that you support the terrorists who kill people

morris


of course

16.02.2009 00:10

Well of course, why else do you think that 7/7 and 9/11 conspiracy theories are so popular on these boards?

sure


A totalitarian outrage with the full complicity of the media

16.02.2009 00:52

It is significant that British TV has reported this police action by either down-playing or omitting mention of the fact that a humanitarian, solidarity convoy had been stopped. Instead the incident has been reported as just another police action against terrorists.

On the face of it this latest incident looks to be nothing more than yet another case of police harassment against British Muslims. In 2008 UK police used Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 to stop and search 360,000 people. Not one of these was found to possess terrorist material or to be linked to terrorism. Yet the harassment continues along with the full complicity of a media which downplays political and humanitarian solidarity and re-presents it to look like anti-terrorist action.

This latest totalitarian outrage by the UK police follows hard on the heels of the BBC’s refusal to broadcast a humanitarian appeal on behalf of the people of Gaza.

Isfahan


A suspect police stunt

16.02.2009 01:10

THE massive aid convoy which left for Gaza at the weekend speaks volumes for the decency and compassion of the ordinary British people.

It included a dozen ambulances, a fire engine, a total of 110 vehicles and £1 million worth of aid.

The sheer scale of the aid mission, which was organised in less than four weeks, stands in stark contrast to the disgraceful heedlessness of the British Establishment.

It puts to shame the government's blatant collaboration with the Israeli murderers whose vicious attack on the people of Gaza resulted in the deaths of 1,300 Gazans in collective punishment for a series of rocket attacks that cost the lives of less than a score of Israelis over a period of some years.

The silence of Gordon Brown over the Israeli atrocity and his feeble attempts to equate the two sides in the course of Israel's state terrorist attack on the comparatively defenceless people of Gaza left a bad taste in the mouth and besmirched any reputation (admittedly small) that Britain might have left in the region.

The convoy will go a long way towards conveying to Gazans that the government's bloodstained and bloody-minded attitude is not shared by us all.

However, it may take more than that to wipe out the inaction of Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair.

We are told that Mr Blair holds court at the American Colony hotel in east Jerusalem. He is hiring an entire floor of the hotel at a cost of about £700,000 a year.

But we are also told that this so-called peace envoy has not even set foot in Gaza since his appointment.

And, to cap it all, he was apparently on holiday when the assault on Gaza was at its height. A more pointed insult to the Palestinians is hard to imagine.

The convoy also puts in perspective the refusal by certain pro-Israeli BBC executives to screen the appeal for aid for the people of Gaza.

BBC broadcast or no, the convoy was raised, staffed and supplied in just four weeks, proving that the Israel lobby cannot stifle the outrage felt by Britain's people at the Gaza atrocity, an outrage that was markedly sharpened by the accurate perception that the assault was timed, not in response to unbearable provocation, but as an aid to the election campaign of pro-war Israeli parties.

However, the machinations of the pro-Israel lobby appear not to stop there.

The stunt, for it can only be described as such, of the police intercepting several vehicles on the M65 on their way to join the convoy, as a part of an operation under the much-abused anti-terror laws, was a clear and unprincipled attempt to discredit the convoy.

Nine people were detained, but six of them were released almost immediately without charge.

Of the three still detained, it is claimed that they had been under observation for some time.

If that is the case, why wait to arrest them until the police had to close a motorway to do so?

And, if they are so dangerous, why is it that, according to the authorities, they didn't even bother using armed police?

Again, according to the authorities, they are not suspected of any terrorist activity in Britain.

We are told that the interception was part of an "intelligence-led" anti-terror operation.

So, one might recall, was the gunning down of innocent electrician Jean Charles de Menezes.

Whatever the outcome of this current "anti-terror" action, there are many questions regarding its timing and its political motivation that cry out for answers from those responsible.

Morning Star
- Homepage: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/comment/a_suspect_police_stunt


7/7

16.02.2009 01:36

If your going to mention Jean Charles de Menezes, you might as well mention the 52 people who died on 7/7 too:

King's Cross bomb

* Flag of the United Kingdom James Adams, 32, a mortgage broker who was travelling from his home in Peterborough to London through King's Cross from where he called his mother.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Samantha Badham, 35, had taken the Tube with her partner, Lee Harris. The couple usually cycled to work but caught the Tube because they were planning a romantic dinner to celebrate their 14th anniversary.[52]
* Flag of the United Kingdom Lee Harris, 30, an architect who died after receiving treatment at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London. His partner, Samantha Badham, also died in the attacks.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Phil Beer, 22, a hair stylist, was on his way to work at the Sanrizz salon in Knightsbridge with his best friend, Patrick Barnes, who was injured.
* Flag of Poland Anna Brandt, 41, a Polish cleaner living in Wood Green. She had 2 daughters. She had come to the UK to seek a better life.[53]
* Flag of the United Kingdom Ciaran Cassidy, 24, of Upper Holloway, north London, on his way to his job as a shop assistant for a printing company in Chancery Lane. He was a keen Arsenal fan.[54]
* Flag of the United Kingdom Elizabeth Daplyn, 26, an administrator at University College Hospital in London, left home in Highgate with her partner, Rob Brennan, before taking a Piccadilly Line train.
* Flag of Grenada Arthur Edlin Frederick, 60, from Grenada, living in Seven Sisters, north London, on his way to work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
* Flag of Poland Karolina Gluck, 29, from Poland, said goodbye to boyfriend, Richard Deer, 28, at 08:30. The IT consultant was travelling from Finsbury Park to Russell Square.
* Flag of Turkey Gamze Günoral, 24, a Turkish student, left her aunt’s house in north London to catch the tube to go to her language college in Hammersmith.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Ojara Ikeagwu, 55, a married mother-of-three from Luton, was on her way to Hounslow where she worked as a social worker.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Emily Jenkins, 24, from Richmond. Having just returned to the UK from Australia, she was waiting to hear whether she had been successful in her application to become a midwife, on the day she was killed.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Adrian Johnson, 37, a keen golfer and hockey-player with two young children. He was on his way to work at the Burberry fashion house in Haymarket where he was a product technical manager.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Helen Jones, 28, a Scottish (London-based) accountant who had previously escaped death in 1988 when wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed upon Lockerbie. Her family, from Chapelknowe, Dumfries and Galloway, said: "Helen will live on in the hearts of her family and her many, many friends".
* Flag of the United Kingdom Susan Levy, 53, from Cuffley in Hertfordshire, the mother of Daniel, 25, and James, 23. She had just said goodbye to her younger son.
* Flag of New Zealand Shelley Mather, 26, from New Zealand
* Flag of the United States Michael Matsushita, 37, left his fiancee, Rosie Cowen, 28, at the couple's flat in Islington for his second day at work as a tour guide. He had lived in New York at the time of the 9/11 atrocity.[55]
* Flag of the United Kingdom James Mayes, 28, worked as an analyst for the Healthcare Commission and had just returned from a holiday in Prague. He was heading from his home in Barnsbury to an ‘away day’ at Lincoln’s Inn and was thought to be travelling by Tube via King's Cross.
* Flag of Iran Behnaz Mozakka, 47, an Iranian biomedical records officer from Finchley who worked at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
* Flag of Romania Mihaela Otto, 46, from Romania, known as Michelle. A dental technician of Mill Hill, north London.
* Flag of Afghanistan Atique Sharifi, 24, an Afghan national who was living in Hounslow, Middlesex.
* Flag of France Ihab Slimane, a 24-year-old I.T. graduate from Lyon, France, who was working as a waiter at a restaurant near Piccadilly Circus, was said by friends to have caught a Tube from Finsbury Park.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Christian 'Njoya' Small, 28, an advertising salesman from Walthamstow, east London.
* Flag of Poland Monika Suchocka, 23, originally from Dabrowka Malborska, in northern Poland, arrived in London two months earlier to start work as a trainee accountant in West Kensington. A flatmate named Kim Phillip said whilst she was still missing: "This is her first time in London and she is really enjoying the excitement of it all".
* Flag of the United Kingdom Mala Trivedi, 51, from Wembley was manager of the X-ray department at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
* Flag of Mauritius Rachelle Chung For Yuen, 27, an accountant from Mill Hill, north London, who was originally from Mauritius.

[edit] Edgware Road bomb

* Flag of the United Kingdom Michael Stanley Brewster, 52, a father of two who was travelling to work from Derby. He died in the arms of fellow passengers who tried to help.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Jonathan Downey, 34, an HR systems development officer with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from Milton Keynes, had just said goodbye to his wife at Euston .
* Flag of the United Kingdom David Foulkes, 22, a media sales worker from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was on his way to meet a colleague. It was his first ever journey on the London Tube network.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Colin Morley, 52, of Finchley, marketing consultant.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Jenny Nicholson, 24, daughter of a Bristol vicar, who had just started work at a music company in London
* Flag of the United Kingdom Laura Webb, 29, from Islington, a PA.

[edit] Aldgate bomb

* Flag of the United Kingdom Lee Baisden, 34, an accountant from Romford who was going to work at the London Fire Brigade.
* Flag of Italy Benedetta Ciaccia, 30, an Italian-born business analyst from Norwich.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Richard Ellery, 21, was travelling from his home in Ipswich to his job in the Jessops store in Kensington, via Liverpool Street Station. He texted his parents, Beverley and Trevor, at 8.30am to say he was on his way to work.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Richard Gray, 41, a father of two young children, who worked as a tax manager. He was from Ipswich.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Anne Moffat, 48, from Harlow in Essex, who was head of marketing and communications for Girlguiding UK.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Fiona Stevenson, 29, a solicitor who lived at the Barbican, London. Her parents, Ivan and Eimar, of Little Baddow, Essex, described her as "irreplaceable".
* Flag of the United Kingdom Carrie Taylor, a 24-year-old graduate from Billericay, Essex. June Taylor, her mother, said: "We have a little farewell ritual. Carrie gives me a kiss goodbye". The day before the bombings, she had written on the bare plastered wall of her parents kitchen (which was about to be redecorated) 'Carrie Louise Taylor, 6/7/05, we got the 2012 Olympic Games on this day'.

[edit] Tavistock Square bus bomb

* Flag of Nigeria Anthony Fatayi-Williams, 26, a Nigerian-born executive with an oil and gas company based in Old Street, had been living in the UK for eight years.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Jamie Gordon, 30, from Enfield, worked for City Asset Management and was engaged to be married to his girlfriend Yvonne Nash.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Giles Hart, 55, a BT engineer from Hornchurch and father-of-two, was travelling to Angel via Aldgate.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Marie Hartley, 34, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was in London on a course. She was a mother of two young sons.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Miriam Hyman, 32, from Barnet, North London, a picture researcher. She had spoken to her father by phone after being evacuated from King's Cross station and reassured him that she was all right.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Shahara Akther Islam, 20, from Plaistow, East London, a bank cashier who lived with her parents, and was both fully Westernised and a devout Muslim.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Neetu Jain, 37, was evacuated from Euston and caught the bus to take her to work as a computer analyst. Ms Jain was planning to move in with her Muslim boyfriend, Gous Ali.
* Flag of Australia Sam Ly, 28, from Melbourne, died at the National Hospital of Neurology - the only fatality of ten Australians caught in the bombing.
* Flag of the United Kingdom Shyanuja Parathasangary, 30, a Post Office worker travelling from Kensal Rise to Alder Street.
* Flag of Israel Anat Rosenberg, 39, an Israeli-born charity worker who called her boyfriend to tell him she was on the Number 30 bus moments before the blast. John Falding, 62, her boyfriend, said: "She was afraid of going back to Israel because she was scared of suicide bombings on buses".
* Flag of the United Kingdom Philip Russell, a 28-year-old finance worker at JP Morgan who lived at Kennington in South-East London.
* Flag of the United Kingdom William Wise, 54 , an IT specialist at Equitas Holdings in St Mary Axe.
* Flag of Ghana Gladys Wundowa, 50, from Ilford in Essex, a cleaner at University College London. She had finished her shift and was heading to a college course in Shoreditch. Her body was taken to her homeland of Ghana for burial.

stayed


Look on the bright side

16.02.2009 13:24

If a muslim is going to get arrested then the UK is probably one of the better places it can happen to him. The UK might not have perfect justice system but its a damn site better than they seem to be able to manage in most mainly muslim countries, which are often characterised by a very poor approach to human rights and democracy.

Pete


Justice is what WE make it.

17.02.2009 20:22

'UK might not have perfect justice system but its a damn site better than'?

Better than... ?!? ...than what? The UK 'justice' system is probably the single most corrupt system anywhere in the world, controlled directly by parliament when dealing with political/democratic issues. Far too many high court judges have perversed, delayed and manipulated hearings from the basic bias to the outright corrupt judgements (if they have been bothered to hear the cases). I have witnessed and occassionally participated in some of the most disgustingly perverse hearings from the respondent (commissioner of police's) qc's having a blank piece of paper for an argument to hearings being heard in the absence of the claimant (absent because the court made sure the claimant didn't know about the hearing being heard, despite being in the high court, before the same corrupt judges, a few days earlier) and the court still proceeded with a judgement on matters that were never before it.

I've seen the use of terrorism laws against peaceful protesters, falsely and improperly, time and time again. THIS is the real scam behind the 'terrorism' claim by the state and it's boot boys (esp. those traitors in the home orifice - propaganda unit :) This, and many other incidents where I/we have seen the corrupt/perverse police lie, conceal evidence of and generally bullsh*t everyone around, that tells us why this 'intelligence-led' policing is utter racist rubbish. (the clue is in the phrase 'INTELLIGENCE-led policing'! since when did the police use anything like intelligence? rather than brute force or murderous attacks.

This is a humanitarian aid mission which indicates that the vast majority of the british people support Palestine and it's people, contrary to the major parties 'friends of israel' group's use of propaganda to try and con people into believing that they have ANY support for the illegal and nazi-styled zionist occupation/holocaust in Palestine!

SteveJ


better than

17.02.2009 20:54

'UK might not have perfect justice system but its a damn site better than'?
Better than... ?!? ...than what? The UK 'justice' system is probably the single most corrupt system anywhere in the world

Well, zimbabwe is pretty bad. but there is quite a few other places in africa too
then we have most of the islamic based countries, where you will be stoned to death for being a woman. Sri lanka doesn't sound too great. I sure wouldn't like to be in the courts in North Korea or China either for that matter. Russia i hear is very corrupt too - can't get anything do without bribing a policeman. Then of course america isn't too great either. A fair few countries in europe have massive problems as well.


Fred


How the Hell

18.02.2009 11:17

is Jean Charles related in any way to 7/7. I mean are you confused, plain stupid or just a parrot of the BBC et al. If were to talk of terrorism then why talk about the 52 people who died in London that day and why not talk about the hundreds of thousands who have been murdered and continue to be murdered at the hands of the US UK and allies in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or the countless millions in the (forcefully) underdeveloped world who are hostages to organisations such as the World Bank or the WTO, as well as multinationals (again coincidentally run by the richest countries in the world). In order to engage in a conversation on Terrorism you first need to grasp what it really is and you dont seem to have a clue.

@$%^)$


read the article

18.02.2009 18:25

Why mention 7/7??????
Read the article you numpty

7/7 is quoted because it relates to the title of this article. Anti-terror laws were born out of the 7/7 attacks.

All that stuff you mentioned has nothing to do with the this article. You havn't got a clue

fred


Mustard?

19.02.2009 10:25

Anti terror laws were initiated around one year BEFORE 9/11. 7/7 was an excuse to expand on these draconian measures. But im sure you already knew that . As I'm sure you know that out of the Hundreds who are captives in Belmarsh prison, none have been charged with any crimes yet even though many have been there for years. 7/7 has nothing to do with this.

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