Police Will Be Able to Order Eye Scans....Independent/UK--New WMW

[Gloria]

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WORLD MEDIA WATCH FOR APRIL 26, 2004

1//The Independent, UK--POLICE WILL BE ABLE TO ORDER EYE SCANS UNDER ID CARD PLAN (Police will have powers to stop and check people against a national biometric database under plans for a compulsory identity card scheme to be unveiled today. David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, confirmed that police would be able to compare people against national fingerprint or iris records even if they did not carry the controversial document…Under the draft Bill, people renewing their passports from 2007 will have to be scanned for biometric data such as their irises and fingerprints. Driving licences could also include the data.)



2//The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia--SMALL INCREASE IN IRAQ DEPLOYMENT POSSIBLE: HOWARD (Prime Minister John Howard today hinted more Australian troops could be deployed to Iraq…The prime minister has repeatedly said he sees no reason to boost the number of troops in Iraq but today left open the possibility of a small increase in Australia's deployment. "If we did do more that would be appreciated," Mr Howard told ABC radio…"That doesn't mean that if there is a small increase for whatever reason in the number of people deployed that that should be seen as some reversal of that original policy." Australia has around 850 personnel in and around Iraq.)



3//The Jordan Times, Jordan--FRENCH DEFENCE MINISTER RULES OUT DISPATCH OF SOLDIERS TO IRAQ (French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie on Sunday ruled out the dispatch of French troops to Iraq although she said Paris could help train Iraqi soldiers in neighbouring countries. “The political and legal conditions have not been met and today, we are not considering this at all,” Alliot-Marie told reporters on the plane from Abu Dhabi to the Red Sea port of Aqaba, at the start of a two-day visit…“We believe that we must go to a new phase that will open the way to the reconstruction of Iraq,” she said, adding that the UN must play a bigger role in the future. “Then we could begin to consider if the conditions are met to take part in the reconstruction of Iraq,” she said, such as training Iraqi police and soldiers.)



4//The Toronto Star, Canada--MUSLIMS GIVEN HANDBOOK ON DEALING WITH CSIS (An Islamic group is distributing a pocket guide to Canadian Muslims advising them what to do if CSIS or the RCMP tries to interrogate them about terrorism. Almost 30,000 copies of the Know Your Rights guide are already in circulation across the country and demand is growing among Muslims left shaken by sensational headlines following recent anti-terrorism raids…"We've been encouraging people to speak to CSIS and the RCMP because they should have nothing to hide, but we've also been telling them to do so with a lawyer present so that the questions are not intrusive, offensive or sort of witchhunt-type," said Saloojee, who is himself a lawyer.)



5//The Moscow Times, Russia--NEW LIFE TRICKLES BACK TO CHERNOBYL (Life is returning to the 30-kilometer-radius exclusion zone around Chernobyl, as many former residents have taken part-time maintenance jobs at the plant or returned to their native villages nestled in pine forests… Undeterred by radiation levels that in places are dozens of times higher than acceptable norms, some 500 former residents like Dika have since returned, while 4,000 others are shuttled into the zone to work on the gradual powering down of the plant…But even as scientists work to minimize radiation levels, the danger of a new tragedy lingers, this time in the form of a radioactive dust cloud. Experts warn that the collapse of an unstable wall in reactor No. 4 could release some of the 200 tons of nuclear fuel encased inside the unit by a protective shell of concrete and steel that was hastily thrown up in the aftermath of the disaster.)

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[dusty64]

1. Compulsory ID cards

and forced eye scan, I guess Britain is definitely off my short list of places to go to if things get outta control here. Scary, VERY scary!

[MadHound]

2. Sad to say, while Britain leads the way in these type of Orwellian schemes

The US is soon to follow. Wasn't it just a few years ago that Britain started agitating for the mandatory DNA tests for it's population? Look for a national, biometric ID card within a decade over here in the US. After all, its for the good of national security:eyes: