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| Al-Qaeda threat to British prisons |
| 2008-02-11 |
| Prison officers are struggling to control a group of al-Qaeda terrorists who are clashing with other serious offenders in one of Britain's high-security jails. Frankland Prison, County Durham, holds an estimated 20 al-Qaeda members and sympathisers, serving long sentences for planning atrocities in the United Kingdom and abroad. They include Dhiren Barot, who was jailed for 30 years, and Omar Khyam, jailed for at least 20 years, for plotting to blow up the Bluewater shopping centre and the Ministry of Sound nightclub. In recent weeks three disturbances have taken place at the prison. The Prison Officers Association (POA) said many of those involved had been moved to Frankland from Belmarsh Prison in London. 'They don't want to be in Frankland; they want to be in Belmarsh with their friends. They are getting more organised and want to be together in one place, which is scary,' said Steve Gough, vice-chairman of the POA. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #2 Khyam's solicitor, Muddassar Arani, has gone so far as to warn that 'race riots' have erupted at the prison, which as a result has become 'an extremely dangerous environment for ethnic minority prisoners who now fear for their safety'. I assume he is referring to white prisoners. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-02-11 09:46 |
| #1 What would happen if Britain would actually arrest and lock up all their 'Clockwork Orange' thugs, and mix them in with their Al Qaeda thugs? Would one kind of thug transform into the other or would they destroy each other like mixing matter and ant-matter? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-02-11 07:22 |