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bullseyebarb · 11-10-2006, 20:44

I have just read in the Daily Mail that Abu "Hookman" Hamza purchased a house for 220,000 pounds, cash on the barrel, whilst he was in chokey - and running up a legal aid bill of some 250,000 pounds. His assets are supposed to have been frozen and this should have prevented him from buying and selling property. I understand that his wife and eight kids live in a 600,000 pound, 5 bedroom home at taxpayers' expense and also collect 680 pounds weekly in benefits. Something is definitely wrong with this picture!

Freezing the assets of suspected terrorists is, I agree, a fine line. Presumably the intelligence services know a whole lot more about these suspects than we do. On the one hand, I certainly don't want innocent people to have their lives turned upside down. But on the other - aren't we trying to prevent terrorists from harming us by drying up their funding? It's tricky.

On the chip business. The people who have had them inserted into their arms have done so voluntarily. I would never do that myself - but if that is their choice, O.K. The national ID card is another matter entirely. I would resist that.

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bullseyebarb Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Georgia, U.S.A. Posts: 636 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 52	Re: Terrorist Assets Frozen. I have just read in the Daily Mail that Abu "Hookman" Hamza purchased a house for 220,000 pounds, cash on the barrel, whilst he was in chokey - and running up a legal aid bill of some 250,000 pounds. His assets are supposed to have been frozen and this should have prevented him from buying and selling property. I understand that his wife and eight kids live in a 600,000 pound, 5 bedroom home at taxpayers' expense and also collect 680 pounds weekly in benefits. Something is definitely wrong with this picture! Freezing the assets of suspected terrorists is, I agree, a fine line. Presumably the intelligence services know a whole lot more about these suspects than we do. On the one hand, I certainly don't want innocent people to have their lives turned upside down. But on the other - aren't we trying to prevent terrorists from harming us by drying up their funding? It's tricky. On the chip business. The people who have had them inserted into their arms have done so voluntarily. I would never do that myself - but if that is their choice, O.K. The national ID card is another matter entirely. I would resist that.