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...halve the annual figure in 2003. Tougher screening plus the closure a year ago of the controversial refugee center in Calais have helped. Opposition politicians, however, question the government's figures, saying no one has any idea of how many undocumented immigrants come into Britain. Home Secretary David Blunkett admits that he hasn't a clue. His Asylum and Immigration Bill, due for its second reading in Parliament this week, is designed to speed up appeals and removals, deal with dishonest claimants and tackle organized immigration crime and those who smuggle human cargo. In Germany, the number of asylum seekers...
...Gloucester arrested Sajid Badat, a Briton of Pakistani origin whom unconfirmed reports linked to shoe bomber Richard Reid, serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a plane in 2001. Authorities believe Badat, 24, was connected to "the network of al-Qaeda groups," said Home Secretary David Blunkett. "We wouldn't have taken these steps if we didn't believe this individual posed a very real threat to life and liberty in this country...
...ball gown and fake beard and calling himself Osama bin Laden managed to gate-crash Prince William's 21st-birthday bash at Windsor Castle. Aspiring comedian Aaron Barschak managed to kiss the Prince on both cheeks and head for the bar before being nabbed by police. Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered an urgent inquiry into the "appalling breach" in security; Britons were aghast. But the real wonder is why anyone was surprised at all. Despite the millions of dollars a year British taxpayers pay to protect the royals, such lapses are an annual event, with more than 20 intrusions...
...leave Italy. "I spoke with the Professor and he told me to send whoever is ready." A Milan investigator told TIME that the recruits were meant to go to Iraq to fight against U.S.-led forces. - By Jeff Israely/Milan The Limits of Free Speech U.K. Home Secretary David Blunkett launched proceedings to strip Egyptian - born radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri of his British citizenship. The move is the first use of a new law targeted at immigrants whose actions are deemed to seriously prejudice British interests. Abu Hamza applauded the Sept. 11 attacks...
...voiced grief and rage over the Jan. 2 murder of two black teenage girls in Birmingham. "The horrendous barbarity of this crime ... left me feeling quite sick," said chairman Lee Jasper, a race-relations adviser to London Mayor Ken Livingstone. At a Whitehall summit called by Home Secretary David Blunkett, politicians, bureaucrats and police officers expressed grave concern over the latest crime statistics. That both meetings, which took place last week, were about gun crimes is a rude shock for many Britons, shaking their smug self-image as a relatively gun-free society, far removed from those trigger-happy cowboys...