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Source: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/24/nterr24.xml
Britain on Terrorist Alert
(Telegraph-UK) - The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir John Stevens, Tuesday warned the public to be vigilant in the face of potential terrorist attacks from Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaeda. Sir John said Britain's terrorist alert was raised last month "for good reasons." Sir John said he had no reservations about the detention of some terrorist suspects in the UK without trial. "I'm afraid those kind of powers, draconian as they appear to some, are absolutely necessary for what we are dealing with at the moment."