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Originally Posted by Graham
It does *NOT* simply mean that you stop them because they match a certain description (Middle Eastern, Muslim, Beard, Robes, Funny Hat, whatever) but because you have *some* evidence that they may be up to no good.
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Please quit with your disrespectful comments, it's a Kufie not a "funny hat"
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And *HOW* are you going to tell the innocent people from the "fanatics"?
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It's called questioning a suspect Graham, part of the legal process, it does not assume guilt.
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A "form" of intelligence? Yes.
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Rather than mocking the post Graham, why not actually explain why you feel that way about the idea of questioning people who support Abu Hamza and his terrorist supporting views?
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Let's say that a certain person who uses the alias timewarrior2001 was arrested for being a suspected terrorist. Then the Police discover that he messages on Cable Forum. Since he's swapped messages with all those people the Police decide to bring in all the members of Cable Forum for questioning "just to be on the safe side".
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Firstly, until they found out sufficient evidence to suggest that TW was a terrorist, they wouldn't expand their investigation to this forum.
However, if they had sufficient evidence then they could aquire a warrent to find out if TW had been exchanging terrorist related PM's with anyone.
If he had, then those people would be put under survealance, not dragged in for questioning.
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You are free to believe whatever you want. I am also free to ignore ridiculous comments like this that add nothing to the debate and do not give extra credibility to your arguments.
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Again with the mocking...
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Now, getting back to the matter at hand and I guess I should specifically state I am not directing this at graham, one of the issues with the asian community is their banding together.
If an asian has broken the law there is likely to be a wall of silence while the suspect is rushed out of the country.
It happens a lot in rape/murder cases.
Several of the Muslims I work with have commented that the intelligence services will find it hard to recruit Muslims in the war against terror because it is seen as betraying your brother to turn them in.