Britain on red alert as terrorist threat rises

UPDATE: Sweeping new emergency laws to counter UK terror

http://www.news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1292792003

Sun 23 Nov 2003

MINISTERS are preparing to place the UK on ‘red alert’ in an unprecedented peacetime move that would see the streets of Britain flooded with armed police.

The plan to step up to the highest possible security state follows last week’s devastating terrorist attacks on British targets in Turkey and growing fears that a direct assault on the UK is inevitable.

The nationwide alert would result in tougher security checks across the country and give intelligence agencies and police emergency powers to increase surveillance, phone-tapping and the detention of terror suspects on the basis of intelligence reports.

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