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ES said:
Police were today searching for a banned Islamic extremist who was able to enter Britain unchallenged.
Raad Salah walked through border controls at the weekend only days after Home Secretary Theresa May excluded him for his anti-Semitic views.
Guards are supposed to check all passengers against security watchlists but they failed to spot him or turn him away. A Whitehall source told the Standard that Ms May is furious and has ordered police to track him down and deport him.
It is understood detectives went to an event Mr Salah was due to attend last night at Conway Hall in central London but he did not show up.
The radical, who lives in Israel, came to Britain at the invitation of Left-wing Labour MPs to give a speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this week.
The disclosure comes two weeks after the Home Secretary launched the Government's anti-extremism Prevent strategy, which said ministers would no longer tolerate those who hold views likely to foster hatred or division. Keeping out terror suspects and extremists on government watchlists was one of its central aims.
Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, who used to chair the counter-terrorism parliamentary sub-committee, said: "These are the same mistakes that have been going on for a decade now and which the new government vowed to correct. How has this been allowed to happen yet again?"
One possibility is that the UK Border Agency failed to serve papers on Mr Salah informing him he had been excluded. He may also have used another name.
In 2008 Mr Salah was charged with incitement to violence and racism by a Jerusalem court over a speech in which he invoked what is known as the "blood libel" - a notorious anti-Semitic slur.
He was said to have accused Jewish people of using children's blood to bake bread. Afterwards, the 1,000-strong crowd rioted. Mr Salah was released from prison in 2005 after serving two years for raising millions of pounds for Palestinian terror group Hamas.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23965018-hunt-for-banned-cleric-who-was-let-into-britain.doRaad Salah walked through border controls at the weekend only days after Home Secretary Theresa May excluded him for his anti-Semitic views.
Guards are supposed to check all passengers against security watchlists but they failed to spot him or turn him away. A Whitehall source told the Standard that Ms May is furious and has ordered police to track him down and deport him.
It is understood detectives went to an event Mr Salah was due to attend last night at Conway Hall in central London but he did not show up.
The radical, who lives in Israel, came to Britain at the invitation of Left-wing Labour MPs to give a speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this week.
The disclosure comes two weeks after the Home Secretary launched the Government's anti-extremism Prevent strategy, which said ministers would no longer tolerate those who hold views likely to foster hatred or division. Keeping out terror suspects and extremists on government watchlists was one of its central aims.
Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, who used to chair the counter-terrorism parliamentary sub-committee, said: "These are the same mistakes that have been going on for a decade now and which the new government vowed to correct. How has this been allowed to happen yet again?"
One possibility is that the UK Border Agency failed to serve papers on Mr Salah informing him he had been excluded. He may also have used another name.
In 2008 Mr Salah was charged with incitement to violence and racism by a Jerusalem court over a speech in which he invoked what is known as the "blood libel" - a notorious anti-Semitic slur.
He was said to have accused Jewish people of using children's blood to bake bread. Afterwards, the 1,000-strong crowd rioted. Mr Salah was released from prison in 2005 after serving two years for raising millions of pounds for Palestinian terror group Hamas.
4 months later and no doubt at considerable legal cost we can finally deport this man back to Israel. Good riddance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration...
More great work by the UK Borders Agency. If you're a Brit returning from holiday abroad they'll treat you like a bit of s
t on their shoe. If you're a bogus asylum seeker/migrant however then they'll just.....
MPs have accused the UK Border Agency (UKBA) of losing track of a population of asylum seekers and migrants equivalent to the size of Cambridge. The Home Affairs Select Committee said 124,000 asylum seeker and immigration cases had been "dumped" in an archive, with the agency giving up on them.
t on their shoe. If you're a bogus asylum seeker/migrant however then they'll just.....MPs have accused the UK Border Agency (UKBA) of losing track of a population of asylum seekers and migrants equivalent to the size of Cambridge. The Home Affairs Select Committee said 124,000 asylum seeker and immigration cases had been "dumped" in an archive, with the agency giving up on them.
Mr_B said:
Wow! That's incredible.Well this cock up is going to end up costing the taxpayer lots of money.
1 - An anti-semite foreigner is put on the 'banned list' when it comes to entry into Britain.
2 - UKBA let him into the country anyway.
3 - Embarrassed and irate government detain him later on for deportation.
4 - He sues and now has won his case because a judge claims he shouldn't have been banned in the first place - the judge reckons he's an alight bloke after all.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15131564
http://hurryupharry.org/2012/04/07/we-cant-defend-...
1 - An anti-semite foreigner is put on the 'banned list' when it comes to entry into Britain.
2 - UKBA let him into the country anyway.
3 - Embarrassed and irate government detain him later on for deportation.
4 - He sues and now has won his case because a judge claims he shouldn't have been banned in the first place - the judge reckons he's an alight bloke after all.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15131564
http://hurryupharry.org/2012/04/07/we-cant-defend-...
Edited by Victor McDade on Monday 9th April 13:18
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