British Police call for ‘Guantanamo-style’ powers

By Louise Nousratpour

Morning Star, 16 July 2007

CONCERNS about overt political campaigning by police bosses mounted on Sunday, after chief constables demanded the power to lock up “terror suspects” indefinitely.

Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) president Ken Jones inflamed the debate over detention without trial when he called for more police powers to hold suspects for “as long as it takes.”

He complained that police were “up against the buffers on the 28-day limit,” which is already the longest period of pre-charge detention in any Western country, including the United States.

The matter was reportedly discussed in meetings between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and senior police officers.

The new Premier, who has already signalled his desire to extend the draconian 28-day limit, is believed to be supportive of the ACPO proposals.

His predecessor Tony Blair was defeated in the Commons two years ago when he tried to introduce a 90-day detention period, which was also floated by notorious Metropolitan Police chief Ian Blair.

Fears grow over mega mosque in UK

“Gordon Brown is under pressure to block a £75 million ‘mega mosque’, amid claims one of the suspected Glasgow Airport bombers belongs to the radical Islamic group behind it. More than 200,000 people have signed a Downing Street petition calling on the Prime Minister to intervene over plans for the mosque near the Olympics site in east London. It is being funded by the fundamentalist Tablighi Jamaat sect. One member of the sect is said to be Kafeel Ahmed, who was engulfed in flames when a Jeep laden with gas canisters crashed into a Glasgow Airport building two weeks ago.”

Sunday Express, 15 July 2007

In an accompanying editorial (“Probe this mega-mosque”) the Express insists that “the Government must call a halt to plans to build a mega-mosque in East London” and calls for a judicial inquiry to assess the “potential security issues”.

Of course, the Express fails to mention that the petition against the mosque was initiated by a British National Party supporter named Jill Barham who blogs under the name of “English Rose“.

92% of European Jews, were originally Khazars (Videos)

Of course this undermines the Jewish claims that Jews are from Palestine.

Jews always lie to get what they want. They repeat these lies over and over again to themselves and their children till they convince themselves that those lies are actually the truth.

Jews took the land they`ve never owned.

Here is a collection of four videos that illustrate the truth about Jews unravelling their repeated lies:

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‘Keep extremists out of college’, urges Jewish Chronicle columnist

Geoffrey Alderman

In the current issue of the Jewish Chronicle, Geoffrey Alderman devotes his weekly column to a – rather belated – scaremongering piece on the Islam at Universities in England report by Dr Ataullah Siddiqui (pdf here). Alderman writes:

“The report calls for the employment of Muslim scholars to teach Islamic theology. What sort of scholars? Scholars who will approach Islamic texts critically and with an eye to their historical context, and not be afraid to condemn – for instance – the so-called ‘sword verses’ of the Koran, which glorify offensive war against ‘unbelievers’, who are deemed explicitly to include Jews and Christians?

“I don’t think so, because what the report actually says is that ‘students should be given the opportunity to learn from competent traditionally trained Islamic scholars’.

“The sub-text here is inescapable: Islamic theology at our universities should be taught by Islamist faculty steeped in a violent, triumphalist view of Islam in the modern world. This view would – indeed, must – be anti-Western, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, anti-democratic, anti-gay and anti-feminist.”

Jewish Chronicle, 13 July 2007

What makes Geoffrey Alderman (hitherto not widely known as an expert on Quranic exegesis) think he has the right to lecture Islamic scholars on how to interpret their holy book? Furthermore, why should they be required to “condemn” rather than historically contextualise the sword verses? What Alderman presents is just an ignorant caricature of Islamic scholarship.

And before he starts accusing other people of being “anti-gay”, Alderman might perhaps consider setting his own house in order first. This is the man who, in his 2 February column in the JC, entitled “Gay adoption undermines us”, complained that “the children so fostered will grow up believing that the homosexual lifestyle is an alternative norm”. He told his readers that the shift in attitudes towards homosexuality exemplified by the acceptance of gay adoption “may not offend your credo as a Jew. But it offends mine”, and he went on to draw a parallel between gay men and paedophiles.

Chechnya: Research Shows Widespread and Systematic Use of Torture

Torture in both official and secret detention facilities is widespread and systematic in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper.

“If you are detained in Chechnya, you face a real and immediate risk of torture,” said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “And there is little chance that your torturer will be held accountable.”  
 
Human Rights Watch said that its documentation of more than a hundred cases of torture, taken together with research conducted by leading Russian human rights groups, strongly suggests that torture in Chechnya is commonplace. Human Rights Watch also said that this finding, together with de facto impunity for torturers, strongly suggests a widespread and systematic practice of torture in Chechnya.  
 
The 16-page briefing paper, “Widespread Torture in the Chechen Republic,” is addressed to the Committee against Torture. It documents ill-treatment and torture by pro-Moscow Chechen forces under the effective command of Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, as well as by federal police personnel.  
 
In research missions conducted in April and September of 2006, Human Rights Watch documented 82 cases in which Kadyrov’s forces detained and tortured people, most of them in unlawful detention facilities. Researchers also obtained detailed descriptions of at least 10 such facilities, most of which are private houses owned or used by regional commanders loyal to Kadyrov.  
 
“If you detain someone secretly, it’s a lot easier to abuse them,” said Cartner. “This is illegal under Russian and international law.”  
 
Kadyrov’s forces use torture to get information about rebel forces. Some detainees are released, and others are forced to join Kadyrov’s ranks. Kadyrov’s forces have also taken hostage and mistreated relatives of alleged rebel fighters.  
 
Human Rights Watch also documented numerous cases in which personnel of the Second Operational Investigative Bureau (ORB-2) of the Russian Federal Ministry of Interior tortured detainees in official places of detention.  
 
Detainees described being subjected to electric shocks and severely beaten with boots, sticks, plastic bottles filled with water or sand, and heavy rubber-coated cables; some also said that they were burned. In addition, a number of interviewees told Human Rights Watch about psychological pressure, such as threats or imitation of sexual abuse or execution, as well as threats to harm their relatives.  
 
Very rarely do authorities make efforts to punish anyone for these abuses.  
In cases when victims dare to launch a formal complaint, prosecutors refuse to open an investigation, and courts disregard the defendants’ allegations of torture, even when they are supported by medical records or witness testimony. Human Rights Watch said it is aware of only one case in which an official was convicted for physically abusing someone in custody.  
 
The climate of impunity is worsened by the authorities’ persistent efforts to close Chechnya to outside scrutiny and prevent documentation of abuses. Last month, Russia refused to allow the UN special rapporteur on torture to conduct unannounced visits and meet with detainees in private, forcing him to postpone his visit to Russia and Chechnya indefinitely. Such conditions are standard for the special rapporteur’s visits around the world.  
 
Human Rights Watch urges the UN Committee against Torture – the world’s leading human rights body tasked with holding countries accountable for torture and ill-treatment – to send Russia a clear message that it must stop, punish and prevent future acts of torture.  
 
“The Committee must use the opportunity of its review to call on Russia to take concrete steps to stop the practice of torture, including investigating and bringing the perpetrators to justice, and providing redress for the victims,” said Cartner.  
  
Testimonies  

“They beat me mercilessly. They put me against the wall with my legs spread apart and kicked me on my privates – I later saw that the entire area in between my thighs was all black from bruises. They pulled my pants down and threatened to rape me. I kept telling them, ‘Just kill me!’ but they said, ‘No, we won’t kill you right away – we’ll do it slowly, and we will also rip your brother apart.’ I felt like during these interrogations I was dying over and over again, and they would revive me to continue.”

“Sulim S.”(not his real name), detained together with his brother “Salambek S.” (not his real name) by the ORB-2 personnel in March 2006.  
 

“They started kicking me, and then brought an ‘infernal machine’ to give me electric shocks. They attached the wires to my toes and kept cranking the handle to release the current. I couldn’t bear it. I was begging: ‘Give me any paper – I’ll sign it, I’ll sign anything.’”

– “Khamid Kh.” (not his real name), detained at a unofficial detention facility by Kadyrov’s forces in April 2006.