Contributed by: filbert Friday, August 12 2005 @ 05:47 AM CST
Tony Blair’s Liberal government in Britain beginsdeporting Muslim radicals[*1] , starting with ten foreigners:
LONDON – Britain’s top legal official on Friday defended plans to deport a radical Muslim cleric and nine other foreigners suspected of posing a threat to national security despite claims by human rights campaigners that they could face torture in the countries they are sent to.
Five years ago, this policy change[*2] would have seemed radical and draconian:
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Friday as part of an anti-terrorism drive it may reform laws to force judges to give equal weight to national security as well as human rights in the cases of foreign nationals facing deportation.
Not in the post-9/11 and post-7/7 world, however.