Extra time to quiz UK terror suspects- means they've got nothing on them?

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eh?

23.08.06

Police have been granted extra time to question nine suspects in custody over the alleged airline bomb plot, Scotland Yard said.

A High Court judge sitting at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London granted officers an additional week to hold eight of the suspects.

The extensions granted today are the first time any suspects have been held beyond the previous 14-day limit.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "In all operations some people may be released without charge while others may remain in custody for further investigation.."

The judge's decision means officers can hold eight of the suspects until August 30, and Umair Hussain until Thursday night. Police can apply for a further week's custody next Wednesday.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23364225-details/Extra+time+to+quiz+terror+suspects/article.do

[frylock]

1. fishing expedition

[Kagemusha]

2. Of course this'll just be cited as proof 14 days isn't enough

because judges can't be trusted to provide extensions because they're judges.

[Double T]

3. ....and how would you like that egg on your face cooked????

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Might mean they have nothing admissible in court

Strangely, any recordings from phone taps on the public system are not admissible in British courts.

The intelligence community is Mr Clarke's biggest backer on this. It fears that allowing phone tap evidence to be heard in court could reveal its secret operational methods.

As it stands, tapes from conventional bugs - not attached to phones - can be used in court. Telephone conversations on an internal network can also be used and so can material where one of the people on the line is an undercover officer.

But a taped phone conversation between a suspect and a third party, on a landline or a mobile phone, is inadmissible. It can only be used for intelligence purposes.
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Liberty - the civil liberties campaign group - does not object to intercept evidence being used in open court with a properly constituted jury. However, Privacy International has its doubts, fearing phone evidence would be presented to a jury as fact.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4211745.stm

So it's possible they think they've got something from a phone tap, but know they won't be able to use that in court. So they apply for more time, hoping they'll get a confession, or something else will turn up. Now that they've got some charges, I doubt they're holding people without any suspicion of them at all - they've avoided looking complete idiots by having to release everyone without any charges (and they have already released one without charges).

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5. British plane plot suspect released

BRITISH police overnight were given more time to quiz nine suspects in connection with an alleged plot to blow up US-bound airliners, the first time suspects will have been held beyond the previous 14-day limit.

Police were granted warrants to detain eight terror suspects until August 30, and one for a further 24 hours, a police spokeswoman said.
One of the eleven suspects arrested two weeks ago was released without charge overnight, while the fate of one suspect has yet to be decided by a magistrate.

"This evening we were granted warrants for further detention for nine people," a police spokeswoman said.

"One person remains in custody, and at approximately 7.20pm (local time), one person was released with no further action."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20234834-1702,00.html

[malaise]

6. This will evaporate and disappear

just like the Miami group. Human beings are way too gullible.