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| Thursday 15 March 2007 / Webmaster |
| Al-Qa'ida's voice threatens once more but what control does he have over atrocities in Britain? |
on 15 Jul 2007 by Paul Lashmar  |
| http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2771025.eceIn hiding after almost six years, Ayman al-Zawahiri pictured with Osama bin Laden is still calling the shots, and resurfaced to warn Britain over its decision to confer a knighthood on Salman Rushdie By Raymond Whitaker and Paul Lashmar in London and Andrew Buncombe in IslamabadPublished: 15 July 2007 If anything demonstrated how the threat of terrorism remains ever-present, it [read more] |
| British girls 'knew they were coming to Ghana to smuggle drugs' |
| on 15 Jul 2007 by Paul Lashmar and David Connett |
| http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2771011.eceBy Paul Lashmar and David Connett Published: 15 July 2007 British officials in Ghana were yesterday trying to ensure the two British schoolgirls arrested trying to leave the country with £300,000 of cocaine hidden in laptop bags are moved to "more appropriate" juvenile detention accommodation before their first court date on Wednesday.Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, from north London, were [read more] |
| The hunt for the London terrorists |
| on 01 Jul 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| The hunt for the London terrorists: Attempt may show change of tactics. Did the attackers simply fail to make a bigger device, or is this al-Qa'ida's new way of igniting fear on the streets? by Paul Lashmar and Cole Moretonhttp://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2725714.eceThe London car bombers could not have destroyed the Tiger Tiger club and killed people in it, experts said last night. [read more] |
| UK's answer to FBI accused of spin in drug seizures claims |
| on 24 Jun 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| By Paul LashmarHeadline-grabbing claims of record drugs seizures by Britain's answer to the FBI - the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) - have prompted calls for a parliamentary investigation amid suspicions that the organisation is "spinning" its success. Soca's recent boast that it has seized a record 73 tons of cocaine in its first year was widely reported across the [read more] |
| 'Cocky' Warren, Rich-List drugs baron, returns to UK |
| on 17 Jun 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| Notorious underworld boss wins appeal against added four-year sentence for killing fellow convict in prison-yard brawl.by Paul LashmarBritain's most notorious drugs trafficker, and the only one to feature on The Sunday Times Rich List, has returned to the country a free man. Curtis "Cocky" Warren amassed a £85m fortune from the drugs trade before he was jailed in Holland in [read more] |
| Heavy secrecy over terror fuels suspicion, says expert |
| on 27 May 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| By Paul Lashmar Published: 27 May 2007 Scotland Yard's head of counterterrorism has criticised what he called excessive secrecy in Britain's terrorism trials, and he called for changes that would permit freer reporting and wider discussion. Peter Clarke said limits on news reporting in terrorism cases have fed public distrust. He told a conference of security and law enforcement experts in Florence [read more] |
| Law Lords slam crime agency for freezing UMBS payments |
| on 27 May 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| By Paul LashmarPublished: 27 May 2007The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), the UK equivalent of the FBI, has been strongly criticised by Law Lords in the Court of Appeal for its "unlawful" action in freezing payments to a company that the organisation believed may have been involved in a VAT fraud. In their judgement, Lord Justice Sedley, Lord Justice Hooper [read more] |
| Record £125m in assets recovered from criminals |
| on 24 May 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| · Classic cars and racehorses among items seized · New powers to confiscate wealth to be announced Paul LashmarThursday May 24, 2007The Guardian Luxury mansions, classic cars ranging from Bentleys to Lamborghinis, millions in cash and even racehorses are among the record £125m-worth of assets recovered from criminals in the last year. Claiming the seizures as a great success, the [read more] |
| Cocaine and Mr Bigs - crime agency lists first year successes |
| on 19 May 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| Sandra Laville and Paul LashmarSaturday May 19, 2007The Guardian Britain's equivalent of the FBI has identified 160 underworld "Mr Bigs", seized 73 tonnes of cocaine, and intercepted a shipment of rocket-propelled grenade launchers thought to be destined for Islamist terrorists since its establishment a year ago, the agency said yesterday. Most of those on the list of hardened organised criminals [read more] |
| Cracking down on Crime |
| on 13 Apr 2007 by Paul Lashmar |
| ESRC website 13 April 2007 |
| ESRC website 13 April 2007The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Britain's answer to the FBI, marks its first anniversary this month (3 April). SOCA has taken over key tasks from National Crime Squad, Customs, MI5 and the National Criminal Intelligence Service. Britain's would-be premier crime agency has 4400 officers and a budget of £400m per annum.But reports in the media [read more] |
