Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Why Somalia must rise up UK agenda

I've just come up for air after several weeks investigating claims that dozens of Islamic extremists have returned to Britain from training camps in Somalia. The security services believe that they may end up using the skills they have learned in Somalia to commit acts of terror here in the UK. Nobody knows just how many have been there and come back. But no doubt it is a tiny minority of British Somalis giving the security services something of a headache, as well as stigmatising an entire Somali community struggling to settle here. If you cross a dirt road from Kenya into Somalia and disappear, then nobody is keeping numbers. Though I gather there has been a marked increase in police questioning of Somalis re-entering the UK at Heathrow.
Watch Jonathan Rugman's Somalia report more..
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/africa/why+somalia+must+rise+up+uk+agenda/2958407

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