Ex-Met Police chief calls for internment camps for 3,000 extremists to help fight terror
A FORMER Met Police chief has called for the UK to set up specialist internment camps for the estimated 3,000 jihadi suspects living in the UK following the Manchester terrorist attack.
By ROSS LOGAN
Express.co.uk
Sun, May 28, 2017
Tarique Ghaffur, who oversaw security operations during the 2012 London Olympics and was Scotland Yard assistant commissioner at the time of the 7/7 attacks in 2005, said extremists should be held without trial just as suspected IRA members were in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
He called for Imams to issue a “collective fatwa” on extremists by “condemning terrorist atrocities and giving religious backing to the new centres for the good of society”.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Mr Ghaffur said the internment camps would be “community-based centres where they (extremists) would be risk-assessed and theologically examined”.
Mr Ghaffur added: “Then the extremists would be made to go through a deradicalisation programme, using the expertise of imams, charity workers and counter-terrorism officers.
“Those who can be deradicalised should be carefully allowed back into the community. But those deemed too dangerous should be locked up.”
The ex-police chief, a practising Muslim, said there was a precedent for such internment camps, after similar laws were activated at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Nearly 2,000 people were held without trial between 1971 and 1975, the large majority being suspected IRA members.
The policy sparked a wave of fresh violence against the British Army and hunger strikes amongst prisoners.
Mr Ghaffur claimed his detention centres would be different, “as they would have backing from Muslim leaders”.
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