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We have not learnt the lesson of the July 7 suicide bombing

By Robin Simcox on July 6, 2010 12:23 PM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is Douglas Murray's op-ed in today's Daily Telegraph.

Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of the day suicide bombing came to Britain. On July 7, 2005 three young British-born men exploded their devices simultaneously on the London Underground. A fourth man detonated his an hour later on a bus in Tavistock Square. Together they left 52 people dead, many more injured, and a country only starting to realise that a problem it had long exported had found its way home.
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Does the government have a control orders policy?

By Robin Simcox on June 24, 2010 5:20 PM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is my latest blog for Conservative Home.

Lord Carlile delivered a sensible speech last night which again made the case for control orders, as well as an enhanced ability to deport foreign terror suspects. The Conservatives and Lib Dems have already been forced to issue control orders against al-Qaeda operatives Abid Nasser and Faraz Khan, despite being highly critical of them when out of government.
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American Jihadi Group Inspired by Awlaki

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on April 21, 2010 5:18 PM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is my latest blog for Standpoint

Revolution Muslim, a US-based extremist organisation, has issued death threats against Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the makers of animated sitcom 'South Park', after their latest episode which satirised the ongoing hysteria about depicting Mohammed.  In what is yet another example of the ongoing influence Anwar al-Awlaki has on Western jihadism, the religious justification used by the group for killing Stone and Parker was taken from a 2008 Awlaki lecture 'The Dust Will Never Settle Down'.



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Brennan gets it wrong at NYU

By Robin Simcox on February 18, 2010 10:36 AM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is my latest blog for Conservative Home.

John Brennan, the deputy national security adviser and top counterterrorism aide to President Obama, has come under increasing fire recently over the government's handling of Umar Abdulmutallab. Republican critics have complained that the Detroit bomber was read his Miranda rights too quickly, meaning vital intelligence could not be extracted from him, and called for him to be treated as an enemy combatant and therefore subejct to military tribunal.
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Islam4UK Ban - Why So Late?

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on January 15, 2010 1:31 PM | No TrackBacks
Reproduced below is my latest blog for Standpoint magazine:

Yesterday, Home Secretary Alan Johnson banned Islam4UK in what seemed a knee-jerk reaction to their planned march in Wootten Bassett.  Although the ban has come late and was quite clearly done with the upcoming election in mind, it is still the right move.
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RICU Give Update on April 2009 Student Terror Arrests

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on September 3, 2009 4:48 PM | No TrackBacks
This is an article which first appeared on my Standpoint Focus on Islamism blog


Readers may remember that back in April, counter terrorism officers arrested 12 students in the North West of England as part of Operation Pathway.  The government has now released an update about the arrests and subsequent detentions, which have caused much consternation among some British Muslims, who (in some cases justifiably) saw the arrests as another example of the increased suspicion and victimisation of Muslims in the UK.

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Government Make Official Statement on Al-Qaeda Preacher's Banning from Local Council

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on August 28, 2009 1:23 PM | No TrackBacks

In my last blog, I wrote about the decision to ban an al-Qaeda supporter from a London local council.  The government's Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) have now released a statement about this move.

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United States Institute of Peace Calls for US Engagement with Hamas

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on July 6, 2009 12:35 PM | No TrackBacks
Click here for my latest blog on the USIP report on Hamas engagement.

What really inspired the 7/7 ringleader?

By Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on May 19, 2009 9:55 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
Well, it certainly was not UK involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.  James Forsyth of The Spectator, with the assistance of Shiraz Maher, has highlighted a crucial segment of the recenly released review of the intelligence.  On page 93 of Could 7/7 Have Been Prevented?, there is a picture of Mohammed Siddique Khan from a surveillance operation in January 2001, this was before the invasion of Afghanistan and long before Iraq.  In fact, it would be difficult even to argue that Khan took his inspiration from the bravery and heroism of the 9/11 murderers.
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MI5 absolved of blame over 7/7

By Robin Simcox on May 19, 2009 5:42 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
This is a guest blog by CSC Research Intern Gabrielle Nejad.

The eagerly anticipated second Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) report released today has absolved the security services and police of any blame they may have incurred for failing to prevent the suicide bombings in July 2005.
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