Law & Paneir

  TERRORIST acts in the UK, France and Belgium have demonstrated that traditional approaches for rehabilitating and de-radicalising terrorists, militants, and extremists are no longer effective. Usman Khan and Sudesh Amman, for example, totally subscribe to the erroneous ideology and, in reality, had refused to reform. These hard-core, extremist individuals, in my opinion, are immune to rehabilitation and reform. There are no comprehensive rehabilitation programmes available to completely transform such people. This harsh reality must be accepted by security and intelligence services. As a result, there is no definitive anti-terrorist solution. Terrorists are evolving and finding new means to conduct acts of violence, therefore intelligence and security personnel must be vigilant and proactive in their response. One extreme approach is to establish a designated gathering location for hardcore followers, sympathisers and terrorists where they can be completely watched. They mu...

  EMAD Al Swealmeen, an asylum seeker from Iraq who was carrying a homemade bomb, arrived at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital using a taxi a few days ago. When the bomb went off, it killed him and injured the driver.  As a result, the terror threat level in the UK has been increased to “severe,” indicating that another attack is extremely likely. Last month, Ali Harbi Ali, a British citizen of Somali descent, was detained under the Terrorism Act for stabbing Conservative MP Sir David Amess to death during a surgery with constituents in Essex. In February last year, an Islamic State (ISIS) member named Safiyya Shaikh was arrested after admitting to plotting to blow herself up in an attack on St Paul’s Cathedral. Sudesh Amman, another ISIS terrorist who was just freed from prison, stabbed two victims in Streatham, London, last year and injured another victim indirectly. He was sentenced to prison for terrorism-related offences such as urging his fiancée to murder h...