Don't know enough to say, do we. It could be that his associates abroad have been arrested, so he doesn't have links back to the network, or it could be that someone has become an informer and said that he wasn't actually important at all, or part of the detention order might have related to his mental health, some sort of sociopathic tendencies which have subsided.
The big problem here is that trust in the integrity of the government is at a seriously low ebb. Frankly, I can't rely on the Home Office, even in what might be a situation of national emergency, to place truth, justice, fairness, and the interests of the nation above saving their own miserable hides at the party-political level.
In this, I fear they've been taking lessons from the Americans. Maybe we're due a British Watergate…
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Date: 2004-09-20 02:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-20 02:50 pm (UTC)If he was dangerous enough to intern in the first place (note use of the term 'if') then what's suddenly changed to make it safe to release him?
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Date: 2004-09-20 03:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-20 03:39 pm (UTC)In this, I fear they've been taking lessons from the Americans. Maybe we're due a British Watergate…
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Date: 2004-09-20 04:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-20 02:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-21 01:29 am (UTC)(On the grounds that if he can be released, he was clearly wrongfully imprisoned.)
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Date: 2004-09-21 01:36 am (UTC)