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:: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 ::
French tougher on terrorists than British?
"Counterterrorism specialists disdain the British. Roger Cressey calls London "easily the most important jihadist hub in Western Europe." Steven Simon dismisses the British capital as "the Star Wars bar scene" of Islamic radicals. More brutally, an intelligence official said of last week's attacks: "The terrorists have come home. It is payback time for - an irresponsible policy."
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"France accords terrorist suspects fewer rights than any other Western state, permitting interrogation without a lawyer, lengthy pre-trial incarcerations, and evidence acquired under dubious circumstances. Were he a terrorism suspect, the author of Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe, Evan Kohlmann, says he "would least like to be held under" the French system."[emphasis mine, ed]
Daniel Pipes, the New York Sun
Bet they don't get no Qur'ans, prayer rugs and rice pilaf in the penitencier...
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