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Interpol boss criticises immigrant checks

By Tom Harper and Ben Leapman, Sunday Telegraph

Mr Noble pointed out that most of the men arrested in connection with the failed London and Glasgow bombings had only recently arrived in Britain. He claimed that such attacks could potentially be prevented if the authorities compared immigrants' details against the Interpol database.

While not disclosing whether any of the men in custody are on the list, he said: "We have the passport numbers, fingerprints and photos of more than 11,000 suspected terrorists on our database. But the UK does not check it against immigrants coming into the country or foreign nationals it has arrested.

"The guys detained last week could be wanted, arrested or convicted anywhere in the world and the UK would not know."

He said that "the UK Government really needs to catch up and realise that unless it consults global databases for passports, names and photographs then it risks letting dangerous people roam free".

Mr Noble also cast doubt on Gordon Brown's pledge last week to share a "watchlist" of potential terrorists with other countries. The Interpol chief said: "British citizens might be surprised to find that this watchlist announced by your Prime Minister last week has not been sent to Interpol.

"Why is it that some countries make sure passengers do not carry a bottle of spring water onto a plane, yet those same countries aren't careful to ensure that convicted felons aren't entering their borders with stolen passports?"

In a little-noticed move earlier this year, the Foreign Office transferred responsibility for security checks on immigrants from countries including India and Pakistan to VFS Global, a company based in India.

The business, which employs local staff, even carries out the critical task of taking applicants' fingerprints and storing them electronically. Liam Clifford, of globalvisas.com, a migration advice firm, said: "Once you put this work in the hands of private companies overseas, you no longer have the same protection."

In February, the Foreign Office announced a £300 million, five-year detail to outsource the checks to VFS and US company, Computer Sciences Corporation. Whitehall officials insist the firms operate to high levels of security.

A Government official revealed last week that within hours of the failed West End car bombing, the names of potential suspects were circulated to ports and airports using a new, high-tech system.

Julie Gillis, of the Home Office "e-Borders" programme, told a counter-terrorism conference that suspects' names were placed on to Project Semaphore, an electronic system which compares passenger details against law enforcement databases on travel routes which are considered high-risk. Had any of them tried to leave the country via these routes, officials would have been alerted.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/08/nterr408.xml

THIS ARTICLE ALERTS US TO THE ABSOLUTE INEPTITUDE OF OUR GOVERNMENT - GORDON BROWN'S BOLD-FACED LIE ABOUT SENDING OUT THE "WATCHLIST" IS PARTICULARLY WORRISOME.

BRITISH GRANNIES ARE FRISKED AT AIRPORTS WHILST WOMEN IN HIJABS STRUT BY - OUR BOTTLES OF WATER ARE SEEN AS A THREAT YET YOU COULD BOARD THE PLANE AND BE SITTING NEXT TO CRIMINAL.

ALSO OF GRAVE CONCERN IS THE OUTSOURCING OF OUR SECURITY CHECKS TO A PRIVATE COMPANY BASED IN INDIA - DIDN'T THE SOME OF THE LASTEST GROUP OF MD-MUSLIM TERRORISTS COME FROM INDIA??

WHILST THE BROWN GOVERNMENT PRIORITISES NOT OFFENDING MUSLIMS BY BANNING THE USE OF THE WORD MUSLIM WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE ISLAMIC JIHAD AGAINST THE UK & THE REST OF THE WESTERN WORLD.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/12172/Brown:-Don

HE CLEARLY IS LESS CONCERNED ABOUT "PUTTING UK CITIZENS AT RISK".