Police say education aids terrorism

thelyrica...@hotmail.co.uk

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Nov 22, 2007, 11:55:25 AM11/22/07

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Thursday November 22, 2007
The Guardian

Suspect banned from taking science courses

A suspected terrorist who is subject to a control order is being
prevented from studying for AS-levels in chemistry and human biology.
The Home Office says the courses provide information which could aid
terrorism. The man, known as AE, is an unemployed Iraqi national in
his mid-30s who was a medical student, according to the journal
Nature. He is subject to restrictions running to 15 pages, including a
16-hour curfew and travel limits. His solicitor, Mohammed Ayub, of
Chambers Solicitors in Bradford, said the curbs were excessive as the
curriculum was readily available in libraries.
James Randerson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2214953,00.html#article_continue

Mike

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Nov 22, 2007, 12:24:56 PM11/22/07

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The ability to read is also a useful skill which would aid a terrorist.
Perhaps we should ban all education for everybody. We can't be too
careful in the "war on terror" (tm).

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Robin T Cox

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Nov 22, 2007, 1:41:09 PM11/22/07

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For this reason, future police recruitment will insist that candidates
demonstrate their total lack of education, to prove that they could never
possibly be involved with terrorism.

Richard Miller

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Nov 22, 2007, 3:34:48 PM11/22/07

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In message <0mcbk31jqmdvtjd3f...@4ax.com>,
thelyrica...@hotmail.co.uk writes

I find it quite terrifying that the Government of a democracy could ban
an individual from receiving education that is freely available to any
schoolchild in the country. It is wholly incompatible with a free
democracy.
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Dead Paul

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Nov 22, 2007, 5:26:47 PM11/22/07

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:55:25 +0000, thelyricalterrapin wrote:

Self inflicted paranoid fantasies - that's what it has come to. it's
obviously all down hill now for everyone in the UK. Book burning soon.

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Martin

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Nov 22, 2007, 5:35:51 PM11/22/07

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errr ... well ... you know ....

Martin

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Nov 22, 2007, 5:36:53 PM11/22/07

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Watch out for Wikipedia hitting the governments banned site list! Back
to the libraries lads

Mike

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Nov 22, 2007, 7:51:01 PM11/22/07

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Martin wrote:

> Richard Miller wrote:
>>
>> I find it quite terrifying that the Government of a democracy could
>> ban an individual from receiving education that is freely available to
>> any schoolchild in the country. It is wholly incompatible with a free
>> democracy.
>
> Watch out for Wikipedia hitting the governments banned site list! Back
> to the libraries lads

Anyone wishing to join a library will have to be vetted by the police
and those who are already members will be arrested on suspicion of
terrorism. That's presuming HMG doesn't close all libraries.

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Mike

thelyrica...@hotmail.co.uk

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Nov 23, 2007, 1:34:39 AM11/23/07

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:26:47 +0000, Dead Paul <dead...@no.reply>
wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:55:25 +0000, thelyricalterrapin wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Thursday November 22, 2007
>> The Guardian
>>
>> Suspect banned from taking science courses
>>
>> A suspected terrorist who is subject to a control order is being
>> prevented from studying for AS-levels in chemistry and human biology.
>> The Home Office says the courses provide information which could aid
>> terrorism. The man, known as AE, is an unemployed Iraqi national in
>> his mid-30s who was a medical student, according to the journal
>> Nature. He is subject to restrictions running to 15 pages, including a
>> 16-hour curfew and travel limits. His solicitor, Mohammed Ayub, of
>> Chambers Solicitors in Bradford, said the curbs were excessive as the
>> curriculum was readily available in libraries.
>> James Randerson
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2214953,00.html#article_continue
>
>
>Self inflicted paranoid fantasies - that's what it has come to. it's
>obviously all down hill now for everyone in the UK. Book burning soon.

Indeed, his solicitors should be more careful with his statements, it
might give them ideas.

Keith

Jethro

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Nov 23, 2007, 3:35:05 AM11/23/07

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You may joke, but there was a case in the 90s of a student in the USA
who was arrested and held for quite a while (months) because he went
and checked out a whole load of books on cryptography (he was a maths
student). The librarian flagged with the FBI who picked him up under
pre-9/11 laws they have (this was in the days when PGP was considered
a munitions export).

Sadly I can quite imagine MI5 poring over library records ... which
means that terrorists would simply go somewhere where the library
system isn't computerised ....

ThePunisher

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Nov 23, 2007, 1:58:43 PM11/23/07

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'Future' police recruitment?

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MM

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Nov 24, 2007, 6:14:25 AM11/24/07

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Heh heh, try getting the likes of The Sun or Daily Mirror to produce
an in-depth account of British democracy in words of one syllable!

MM

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Nov 24, 2007, 8:35:14 AM11/24/07

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> James Randersonhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2214953,00.html#article_co...

I would have thought that a medical student already knew more than AS
level chemistry and biology.