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NEW MEASURES TO COMBAT TERRORISM

Blair outlines plan to deport foreigners

BBC ONLINE, AFP, London
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has outlined a raft of plans yesterday to extend powers to deport or exclude foreigners who encourage terrorism.
The UK can already exclude or deport those who pose a threat to security and Blair said he also wanted to clamp down on those who advocated terror.
The prime minister said he was prepared to amend human rights laws to make deportations more straightforward.
Blair announced the sweeping range of new powers to combat terrorism following the London bombings, warning hardline clerics
in the country that "the rules of the game are changing".
A combative Blair also responded furiously to an al-Qaeda statement justifying the attacks, the first of which killed 56 people, as a response to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, labelling this argument an "obscenity".
Speaking at his final Downing Street press conference before an imminent summer break, Blair unveiled around a dozen proposals to crack down on radical Muslim clerics who advocate terrorism or foment hatred.
"Let no one be in any doubt that the rules of the game are changing," a stern Blair warned.
"Coming to Britain is not a right
and even when people have come here, staying here carries with it a duty. That duty is to share and support the values that sustain the British way of life," he said.
Among potentially controversial moves is a possible review of the 1998 Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into British law, to see if it might have to be circumvented to speed up the deportation of foreign nationals linked to terror.
A section of the convention preventing deportation if the detained person fears torture on their return home might be challenged, Blair said.
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Additionally, Britain's obligations under international asylum rules would be altered, the prime minister said.
"Anyone who has participated in terrorism or has anything to do with it, anywhere, will automatically be refused asylum in our country," he said.
After the July 7 attacks in which 52 people and four suicide bombers died in blasts on subway trains and a bus, and a bungled attempted repeat a fortnight later when the bombs failed, attitudes in Britain had hardened, Blair said.
Overall, the response of the British people had been "unified and dignified and remarkable", Blair said.
He added: "However, I am acutely aware that alongside these feelings is also a determination that this very tolerance and good nature should not be abused by a small but fanatical minority, and an anger that it has been."
Blair said he had been asked many times in the past four weeks to "deal firmly" with those who incite terrorism, such as hardline clerics.
And although the four July 7 attackers were British Muslims, three of Pakistani origin, the new measures were in no way an attack on the Islamic community.
"The Muslim community, I should emphasise, has been and is our partner in this endeavour," Blair said.
Some of the new rules require only an administrative change to existing laws meaning they can be introduced immediately, Blair said, while others need parliamentary approval in the autumn.
Other changes would involve increasing court capacity to speed up deportations, banning hardline groups such as Al Muhajiroun -- a British-based group that cheered the September 11 attacks in the United States, whose members say it has disbanded -- and setting a
maximum time limit on extradition cases.
Additionally, powers would be extended allowing the government to strip citizenship from people with British or dual nationality who "act in a way that is contrary to the interest of this country", Blair said.
For British nationals, the government would extend the use of so-called "control orders", which currently allow measures such as limited house arrest for foreign nationals suspected of terrorism.
Blair's personal popularity in Britain has been boosted by his response to the twin attacks, but he remains dogged by the Iraq war, notably whether his decision to back the US-led conflict made London a prime terrorism target.
On Thursday, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri released a filmed statement warning of more attacks unless Britain withdrew from Iraq.
Blair responded angrily to a question about this, noting that the groups putting such arguments forward were also killing innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"And that is why, when they try to use Iraq or use Afghanistan or use the Palestinian cause as a means of saying, you know, we have justification for what we do, it is a complete obscenity," he said.
Although the four July 7 bombers are dead and the main suspects from two weeks later are in custody, police have warned that London could face more attacks.
Thousands of police, some armed, flooded the city's streets and transport system during Thursday, mindful that it was two weeks after the second attack, which in turn came a fortnight after the first.
Blair is expected to leave on holiday in the next few days, although his office, following its standard practice, has refused to say where he is going or when.