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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
... or Birmingham... this style of attack is something we’d find very difficult to cope with,” said Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism panel. Peter Clarke, retired head of Scotland Yard’s Counter-Terrorism Command, who was closely involved in investigations into the 7/7 bombings, said there was a real risk of something like the Mumbai attacks happening in Britain.“It...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the streets of London and New York like there is blood on the streets of Fallujah and Mumbai.”MP Patrick Mercer, the chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism committee, warned: “What can happen in Mumbai can just as well happen in Manchester or Birmingham. “This style of attack is something we would find very difficult to deal with.”* Last week 99 per cent of Daily Star readers called...
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Liberalguy (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008 British security services 'couldn't cope with Mumbai-style attack' claims Patrick Mercer British security forces would not be able cope with a Mumbai-style terrorist attack, according to the chair of an influential parliamentary committee. Patrick Mercer said a new anti-terror unit was needed with "a battalion's worth" of 500 highly specialised...
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Patrick Mercer said a new anti-terror unit was needed with "a battalion's worth" of 500 highly specialised policemen and soldiers who could be called upon in case of attack.The chair of the Commons counter-terrorism sub committee said the Olympics i
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Patrick Mercer said a new anti-terror unit was needed with "a battalion's worth" of 500 highly specialised policemen and soldiers who could be called upon in case of attack.The chair of the Commons counter-terrorism sub committee said the Olympics i
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Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Not much has been said about the death of Rashid Rauf, an alleged terrorist, that intelligence services recently said was killed by a US strike. But I thought this article by Conservative MP Patrick Mercer (via Dave Bones) was spot on: The world of intelligence is murky - necessarily so. There is a series of carefully [...]
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Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
There is a highly sensible article in today's Times by Patrick Mercer MP about the possible death of Rashid Rauf (whose family are denying his demise). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5233272.ece New Labour remains so bent on its simple minded pursuit of a foreign...
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malung-tv-news (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
I haven't really got a lot of commentary about this. I read it, I read the usual reactions from the usual people. This, from Patrick Mercer stood out- A death that plays into terrorists' hands We cannot respect human rights at home and be complicit in the killing of suspects abroad The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not yet confirmed whether Rauf was the target of the attack. But...
