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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49087)	9/16/2005 4:20:59 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

New offence of "glorifying terrorism", Metropolitan Police chief in London Sir Ian Blair said, following the London bombings, that the current 14-day limit was not enough time to establish a case against suspects, a process that often involves time-consuming trawls of closed-circuit television footage and computer files. Clarke also wants to create a new offence of "glorifying terrorism", which would carry a maximum of five years in jail, and he announced a crackdown on extremist Islamic bookshops. Keen to push the laws through parliament as quickly as possible, Clarke hopes to build cross-party agreement and wrote to his opposition counterparts explaining the need to act against the threat of further attacks. "The celebration of despicable terrorist acts over the past weeks has only served to inflame already sensitive community relations in the UK," he wrote. "We are, of course, conscious that such an offence needs to be carefully drawn and needs to balance the proper exercise of freedom of speech, even where views that are aired are deeply objectionable." Human rights organisation Amnesty International branded the measures "draconian and unnecessary". In a statement, Amnesty said: "Such an extension could lead to abusive practices, including the detention of people without the intention or realistic prospect of bringing charges against them, in a way that would effectively amount to internment in all but name."