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British Prime Minister David Cameron has proposed new anti-terror measures on Monday that will give police force the power to seize the passports of suspected Britons who have travelled abroad to fight with jihadist groups to combat the threat posed by radicalised Britons returning from Syria and Iraq.
The proposals have been disclosed after U.K. terrorism threat alert was raised to its second-highest level of “severe” on Friday, saying Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq posed the country’s greatest-ever security risk assessed to be at a level where an attack is believed as “highly likely”.
The current threat level is at the second highest out of five possible categories, its highest since July 2011.
An IS video released in August, claimed to show a man with British accent beheading a U.S. missing journalist James Foley, led to concern that Britons fighting in the region could return and launch attacks on British soil as well.
The Prime minister has told parliament: “We have all been shocked and sickened by the barbarism we have witnessed in Iraq this summer.”
“There are two key areas where we need to strengthen our powers to fill specific gaps in our armoury. These are around preventing suspects from travelling and dealing decisively with those already here who pose a risk.”
Mr Cameron has told to introduce new laws to combat terrorism under the existing Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIMs) through empowering police to temporarily strip suspected would-be jihadists of their passports at Britain’s border and giving more data on airline passengers to the intelligence services that will support in their investigation. Presently, the power to withdraw a passport resides with only Britain’s home secretary.
He has also said the government would consult on a discretionary power including a “temporary bar” on Britons suspected of fighting in Syria and Iraq from returning home. This would extend existing powers which can only be applied to foreign nationals, naturalised citizens and those with dual nationalities.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has backed the new proposals to tackle terrorism and said the opposition would offer broad support to the government in its core objectives.
However, Mr Miliband has also highlighted a “lack of detail” and said the coalition government had made a “huge mistake” to abolish the system of control orders – which banned suspects from certain areas – in 2011.
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