Authorities look to tighten borders
>From correspondents in London August 01, 2005 From: Agence France-Presse AUTHORITIES are mulling how to tighten border controls after a suspect in London's July 21 botched bombings took a Eurostar train to leave the country and travel to Italy, officials said overnight. Hamdi Issac, also known as Osman Hussain, was arrested in Rome after fleeing London aboard a Eurostar train to Paris on July 26, five days after the attack on the British capital's transport system. He is wanted in connection with the abortive bomb attack on a London Underground station at Shepherd's Bush in West London, one of four unsuccessful attacks on London's transport network. A Home Office spokesman confirmed that checks at the Eurostar terminal at Waterloo were increased following the initial July 7 suicide bombings, which left 56 people dead, including the four attackers. The bolstered checks were lifted on July 17, but then re-introduced immediately after the July 21 attempted attacks. "There are currently passport checks at Waterloo. All these decisions are taken in close consultation with the police, and the situation is kept under review, in liaison with the Special branch," said the spokesman. He declined to speculate on the specifics of how Issac got through the Waterloo checks. "It's the subject of a police investigation and I cannot comment," he said. House of Commons leader Geoff Hoon echoed the Home Office comments, implying that extra passport checks could be introduced. Hoon told the BBC that British ministers will be looking into claims that passport checks at Waterloo are inadequate. "I'm aware that the Home Office will be looking at that. Certainly in recent times there has been enhanced security for those leaving the country as well as for those coming into the United Kingdom," he said. A spokesman for Eurostar underlined that the company is not responsible for passport checks. "We can't confirm he travelled with Eurostar, we are working with the British authorities and going through lists of our passengers." "If he did travel ... that was before they issued a proper picture of him and before they knew his name: to give to some credit to the police they didn't know the person they were looking for anyway," he said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hvoncd2/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122909876/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- 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/
