http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1381&id=197982006 Wed 8 Feb 2006
Protester in suicide bomber's outfit sent back to jail SAM MARSDEN A DEMONSTRATOR who dressed as a suicide bomber during a protest against cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad was sent back to prison yesterday. Omar Khayam, 22, was photographed in London at the weekend wearing an imitation suicide bombing outfit to denounce the caricatures satirising the Prophet of Islam. In 2002, the student was given a six-year prison sentence for possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply and had been on licence after his release last year halfway through his sentence. But yesterday, at the request of the Home Office, police arrested Khayam in Bedford for breaching the terms of his parole and he was taken back to jail. Muslim groups were swift to condemn demonstrators in London at the weekend who threatened violence over the cartoons, first published in a Danish paper in September. Some protesters waved placards threatening a repeat of the 11 September and 7 July atrocities. On Monday, Khayam apologised "wholeheartedly" for his behaviour in London, saying it was "wrong, unjustified and insensitive" to protest dressed as a suicide bomber. A Home Office spokeswoman said: "If an offender is in the community on licence and his behaviour gives cause for concern, he is liable to be recalled back to prison." Last night, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, warned "freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to incite crime" . In a speech at the London School of Economics, he said freedom of speech was an "embedded" part of the constitution, but he emphasised it came with "duties and responsibilities". -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
