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Home Office staff can join Islamic extremists
The Daily Mail ^ | 30th November 2006

Posted on 12/01/2006 1:51:48 AM PST by Mrs Ivan

Home Office staff are free to be members of the Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, it was revealed yesterday.

Those working in the department responsible for immigration and homeland security do not even have to declare membership of the fanatical organisation, the Government admitted.

This means Home Secretary John Reid has no idea how many of his staff hold the group’s radical views and he has no means of monitoring their activities.

The revelation - in a written parliamentary answer - comes after Home Office IT manager Abid Javaid, 41, was found to be a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which supports a worldwide Islamic state run under hardline Sharia law and has refused to condemn last year’s London bombings.

Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green said: “This is really shocking. It is a dereliction of duty for them not to find out how many more Hizb ut-Tahrir members are on the Home Office payroll.”

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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He was accused of providing logistical support in a series of outrages”

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“NHS doctors accused of bomb plots, Al Qaeda fanatics working for the police, and now the Terrorist traffic warden”

By IAN GALLAGHER and RHODRI PHILLIPS - More by this author »Last updated at 23:08pm on 7th July 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A terrorist jailed for his involvement in a bomb attack on the Paris Metro - which killed eight people and wounded 80 - has been working as a traffic warden in England.

Mustapha Boutarfa, 32, was arrested by Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist squad in 1996 and extradited from Britain to France two years later.

He stood trial for his auxiliary role in the 1995 attack on the St Michel station by a notorious Islamic militant group and was given a two-year prison sentence.

But after his release, Boutarfa, who held dual French and Algerian nationality, managed to get back into the UK with his wife and children - and also secured the job as a parking attendant in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Boutarfa was detained in London in 1996 under an international arrest warrant and held at Belmarsh high-security prison before being extradited.

He was accused of providing logistical support in a series of outrages. He rented an apartment in Paris which was used by Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) for a series of bomb attacks across France. Worst of all was the attack on the St Michel station when a gas bottle was thrown on to a platform on July 25, 1995, causing carnage.

Boutarfa was linked to the attacks after police claimed known terrorists had visited his Paris flat.

It was unclear why Boutarfa was allowed back into Britain. It is understood he lied about his criminal conviction when he applied for his job as a traffic warden.

He was arrested on June 6 on suspicion of making a false declaration and has been bailed pending further investigation.

Tim Cowen of NCP Services said: “NCP Services suspended Mr Boutarfa as soon as we discovered that he had a conviction for terrorism-related offences in France. There is no way for UK employers to check offences committed in Europe, yet EU citizens such as Mr Boutarfa have the right to work in the UK.

“He was not initially employed by NCP Services but by the previous contractors. When we took over the contract he was transferred to us, as is his legal right.””

737 posted on 07/07/2007 4:08:56 PM PDT by Cindy