Britain in danger Controls on dangerous fanatics to be lifted within weeks in new terror fiasco Controls on some of the most dangerous terror suspects in Britain – including two fanatics linked to the liquid bomb plot – will be lifted within weeks in a new security fiasco. Ten extremists suspected of helping to plot attacks in the UK and abroad were placed under controversial terrorist prevention measures, known as T-Pims, to protect the public in 2012. Two of the fanatics have since absconded – including Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, who is currently the subject of an international manhunt after fleeing the authorities disguised in a burka. Now it has emerged that, in January, the T-Pims in force on the remaining eight suspects, which include curfews and bans on meeting fellow extremists, will begin to lapse. The suspects – who will be free to walk the streets with impunity – include the ‘commanding officer’ of the 2006 liquid bomb plot to blow up seven transatlantic planes. Officials say the fanatic, rated one of the most dangerous men in Britain, had the job of developing the deadly explosive devices, which would have been contained in drink bottles. A second man linked to the plot will also be freed from his curfew. The 24-year-old Briton was never put on trial, but a judge said that if the plot hadnt been stopped ‘there is every reason to believe that he would have killed himself and a large number of other people’. A third member of the group attended a terror training camp in Cumbria in 2004 with four of the five attempted suicide bombers involved in the July 21, 2005 attacks. The first T-Pims – including that on the liquid bomb plot ‘commanding officer’ – will lapse in January. All of the men are protected by anonymity orders. The news is another embarrassment for the Government following Mohamed’s escape from a London mosque dressed in a burka last Friday. The 27-year-old jihadist was trained in Somalia by the Al Shabaab terror group responsible for the Westgate shopping mall atrocity in Kenya earlier this year. Security officials believe Mohamed, who MI5 say was involved in organising attacks against western interests in Africa, may already have fled overseas.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:20:53 +0000
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