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2007-05-02 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-05-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ISI warned UK about 7/7 bomber

Curiously enough, the letter arrived on July 8^th.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-02 00:22|| 2007-05-02 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 the 25-year-old Khyam, a Briton of Pakistani descent, also personifies a larger and more immediate concern: As a British citizen, he could have entered the United States without a visa, like many of an estimated 800,000 other Britons of Pakistani origin.

U.S. officials, citing the number of terror plots in Britain involving British Pakistanis, expressed concern over the visa loophole. In recent months, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has opened talks with the British government on how to curb the access of British citizens of Pakistani origin to the United States.

Among the proposals that have been put on the table, according to British officials, was the most onerous option to Britain - that of canceling the entire visa waiver program that allows all Britons entry to the United States without a visa. Another option, politically fraught as it is, would be to single out Britons of Pakistani origin, requiring them to make visa applications for the United States.

Posted by John Frum 2007-05-02 07:47|| 2007-05-02 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 single out Britons of Pakistani origin, requiring them to make visa applications for the United States.

Of course, that would make waaaaaay too much sense.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-02 16:38|| 2007-05-02 16:38|| Front Page Top

#4 British and US officials today denied a report that the US was seeking ways of imposing entry restrictions for visiting Britons of Pakistani origin, following a spate of UK bomb plots involving citizens with links to Pakistan.

Posted by John Frum 2007-05-02 19:44|| 2007-05-02 19:44|| Front Page Top

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