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Paranoia

I don’t want to sound like someone who spouts endlessly about civil liberties, because in my country (that’s my own personal one, come the revolution, not the UK), things would be very different. But, Andrew Rowe has just been convicted for “having instructions on using a mortar, and secret code on a piece of paper”.

It’s surely a dim time in the UK where having information can be considered a criminal offence. I’d best throw out all my cryptology books.

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One Response to "Paranoia"

  1. 27 July 2006 at 03:08 PM

    liber T wrote:

    It is interesting that Rowe the ‘al-Qaeda weapons expert’ he ‘was put to work unloading boxes of ammunition’, for which he used a pair of socks to prevent getting splinters in his hands.

    Other strange points revealed in the reporting of his trial are that he had been issued with four passports in a seven-year period and that he was described as “a paid operative over a substantial period of time, travelling the world and furthering the cause of Muslim fundamentalism.” WHO PAID HIM?? & why the 4 passports??

    Could it have been Mi6 who facilitated his travel/funding, I wonder?

    A 15 year sentence for 2 bits of paper seems over the top. Perhaps it was required that he was taken ‘off the streets’ so as he could not talk, similar to the case of Brahim Benmerzouga, and Baghdad Meziane two illegal immigrants who were jailed for 11 years each for ‘passport fraud & bank account fraud’, whilst the newspapers screamed ‘al-Qaeda fund-raisers’.

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