[Shabelle] Seven of Britannia's top terror suspects are now free from tough security restrictions designed to prevent them becoming involved in terrorist activity.The group had been subject to the Government's Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIMs).
These allowed the authorities to places strict controls on things like who the suspects mixed with and their use of phones and computers.
The orders are used to keep close tabs on terror suspects who the authorities have decided can neither be charged or deported by the home secretary.
They expire after two years unless new evidence comes to light of the suspect's involvement with terrorism.
TPIMs expired today for seven of the eight suspects who had been subject to them, Sky News reports.
The group are considered a real threat to national security. The authorities now face the difficult challenge of trying to monitor them effectively without using TPIMs.
The home secretary can consider putting one of the orders into place after an MI5 assessment of the suspect, according to the BBC.
He or she must "reasonably believe" that the person is involved in terrorist-related activities.
One suspect who was subject to such an order was Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed -- who disappeared in November last year after changing into a burkha in a mosque.
Mohammed had been linked to the Somali bully boy group al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
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