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British PM unveils anti-terror proposals

[ 2007-07-27 09:05 ]

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Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled in parliament Wednesday
new anti-terror measures he would like to see implemented in the coming
months. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London.

Breaking away from dealing with the worst flooding in Britain in 60
years, Prime Minister Gordon Brown returned Wednesday to the topic of
terrorism, announcing in the House of Commons that his government hopes
to implement new measures in the next few months.

Mr. Brown said they are needed to confront what he called a
generation-long challenge to defeat al-Qaida inspired terrorist violence.
The British leader said some of the new measures would be incorporated
into the forthcoming counter-terrorism bill.

He also said that,?the electronic screening of people coming in and out
of Britain would be required.

"Within nine months, from March next year, we will extend biometric visas
to all visa applicants," he said. "From 2009, we will introduce a new
enhanced system of electronic control linking the checking of passports
to checking against the warning index."

The prime minister also said the separate functions of passport control,
customs and policing at entry points like airports would soon be combined
into a single, unified force.

"We will now integrate the vital work of the border and immigration
agency, customs and U.K. visa overseas and at the main points of entry
into the U.K. and we will establish a unified border force," he said.

Mr. Brown also said the time has come to link the British watch list of
suspects to the Interpol database.

In addition, Mr. Brown wants to deport more prisoners held in Britain,
sending them back to their home countries.

Mr. Brown wants legislation to allow forwiretapevidence to be allowed in
court. He also wants the 28 days currently allowed to hold individuals
without charge to be extended. The former prime minister, Tony Blair,
tried to pass that measure, but it was defeated in the House of Commons.

While agreeing with most of the proposals, David Cameron, the leader of
the main opposition party - the Conservatives - warned that new rules
alone, without attempts to win hearts and minds, will in the end be
counterproductive.

"Vitally, does the government understand that what is needed to defeat
terrorism is thehard-noseddefense of liberty, and we must avoid any
approach that lapses into ineffective authoritarianism," he asked.

Mr. Brown says since 2001 there have been 15 attempted terrorist attacks
on Britain, with 30 people convicted of terrorist offenses.

wiretap:窃听；窃听装置

hard-nosed:顽固的；顽强的

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