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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Of course all dogs are not dangerous but the Government will abuse the dangerous dogs act to have ALL dogs chipped bringing us one step closer to babies chipped at birth. They cannot control the internet so they want to control us through a chip that can program activists who believe in free speech, whats left of it that is.</em></span><br />
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Dog owners could be forced to have their animals microchipped when they are born or sold, under Government plans to be announced next week. </h2>
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Ministers will announce measures on Monday that will allow dogs to be traced back to their owners, who will then be held accountable for the animal’s behaviour. </div>
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Ministers have been under growing pressure to act because of concern about dangerous dogs being used as weapons and status symbols. The Government has already missed its own deadline on bringing in new rules on dogs. </div>
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Groups including the RSPCA have called for compulsory microchipping to create a clear link between dogs and their owners. However, Coalition sources said the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [Defra] will announce a consultation on rules that will ensure all dogs are eventually microchipped. </div>
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One option is for all puppies to be chipped shortly after birth. Another is for chipping to be compulsory before a dog can be sold. </div>
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Existing unchipped adult dogs will not have to be chipped, but ministers believe the effect of the new rules will be near-universal coverage of British dogs within little more than a decade. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>The chips hold an electronic record of their owner’s name and addresses, as well as a unique identity number. Implanting can cost as little as £5. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Last year, a survey suggested there are about 8.3 million dogs in Britain. More than half already have microchips. Animal charities say there is a growing problem of people abandoning dogs. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Defra estimates there are about 125,000 strays in England and Wales. About 6,000 healthy animals are destroyed each year because they have no permanent home. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>The Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London said it took in an average of 14 dogs every day last year. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Ministers had promised a statement on dangerous dog laws before Parliament began its Easter recess in March. That deadline was missed, prompting criticism from Labour and animal charities. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Claire Horton, the chief executive of the Battersea home, said ministers had to make up lost ground on the issue. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>“The number of dogs coming into Battersea is a huge concern to us when we are powerless to trace irresponsible owners,” she said. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>“We will continue to do all we can to help these animals but we really need to know that the Government is playing its part in helping to sort the dog crisis on our streets.” </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Lord Taylor of Holbeach, an environment minister, told Parliament in February that ministers “see microchipping as part of the measures we can do to address an increasing problem”. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Defra last night confirmed that a statement will be made to Parliament about dangerous dogs on Monday, but declined to discuss the details. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>A spokesman said: “We will very shortly be announcing measures to tackle the problems caused by irresponsible dog owners. This is an issue we take extremely seriously and so have taken the time necessary to get the policy right.” </em></span></div>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Close to a year ago I wrote a piece for UFO Digest on the Mark of the Beast. At that time I looked at it possibly being a microchip inserted into the human body so the person could be tracked 24/7/12/365, along with every transactions of theirs being recorded on a computer somewhere in the world. It sounds like a nightmare becoming a reality in waking life. With technology advancing the way it is, I find it a good thing to be aware of what is coming down the road towards us. I've suspected for years that <span class="scayt-misspell">authorities</span> have had technology for decades before it comes part of public life. An example is email and the Inter-Net. I was told 10 years ago that the <span class="scayt-misspell">U.S</span>. military used both starting in 1968 to quickly relay messages in time of war. So what has been in store under the guise of <span class="scayt-misspell">surveillance</span> and keeping track of the Great Unwashed?</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>What if a person will refuse to take the microchip? I can see the those people being shamed via peer pressure to have it implanted into their body. If they are strong enough to resist that, I think they will be exiled from society into concentration camps, have their civil <span class="scayt-misspell">liberties</span> suspended after being branded <span class="scayt-misspell">dissidents</span>.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Some employees may need to be <span class="scayt-misspell">microchipped</span> to gain access to secure areas in their work place. This microchip could be used as a loyalty mark <span class="scayt-misspell">identifying</span> the home region of every citizen on Earth. After being led to a central location, how many people will accept the microchip willingly out of a sense of duty or obligation to family, country, political party or religious leaders?</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>I can see the media outlets of all kinds playing a direct role in getting people accepting the microchip. I've wondered how many of the reports of terrorism, viruses and so on are exaggerated so people get uptight and live in constant fear. People are busy enough with meaningless busywork on a daily basis so they don't have time to search for the truth. As a result they will just settle for the "official facts."\</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Back in the 05/20/06 issue of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, it was reported that various products were implanted with radio frequency devices or RFD's. This was done to keep track of the products movement after purchase. These RFD's are supposed to be found in clothing items, foodstuffs and various other objects. </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>It's been said to be able to keep track of customer shopping habits and which items are kept in their homes. Also they are presumed to be capable of telling which areas of the store customers spend most of their time in and which items they put into the cart they use. I heard that rumor has it that RFD's allow companies to "look" inside purses and backpacks to see what is being carried in them. All in the name of Big Marketing. It's bad enough that marketing departments use it but what happens if law enforcement agencies or security firms uses it to keep track of people?</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Once the general public is injected, en masse, with the microchip smaller than the smallest ant, it's no longer funny. </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>Neither would the extent of the manipulation behind it be amusing. </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>I was surprised that just <span class="scayt-misspell">after</span> 9/11 the push for the <span class="scayt-misspell">microchip</span> wasn't hurried along considering the shock people were in. I remember as soon as the two towers were hit, two slogans, "Attack On America" and "War On Terrorism" were on the airwaves.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>I found it strange, if not suspicious, that these two slogans were implemented right after the disaster. Why so quick?</em></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><em>How much of what I write here remains conspiracy theory, urban legend or the real thing remains to be seen.</em></span></span><br />
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DNA taken from millions of newborn babies is quietly being stored by hospitals without proper parental consent.<br />
The blood samples, taken in heel-prick tests that check for serious conditions, can be accessed by police, coroners and medical researchers, Freedom of Information Act requests reveal.<br />
Despite Government guidelines advising hospitals to destroy the DNA after five years, some facilities have kept them on file for more than 20 years – prompting fears that a covert database is being created.<br />
Campaigners claim the 32-page leaflets - explaining that newborns’ DNA will be stored – handed to new mothers, does not constitute consent for hospitals to carry out further research.<br />
Nor, they say, does it make clear the samples could be accessed by the police to identify people involved in crimes.<br />
And, although the DNA of each child is stored anonymously, The UK Newborn Screening Programme Centre, which oversees the use of samples, say they could be linked to hospital admissions and the child could be identified that way.<br />
The samples can also be accessed by private medical companies and have been used for genetic research and mass screening for diseases such as HIV in babies’ mothers.<br />
Dr Helen Wallace, of GeneWatch, told the Sunday Times: 'We do not want to put mothers off having these tests as they are very important for their babies’ health, but the key issue really is how long these samples are being stored for. Some hospitals are hanging on to them indefinitely.<br />
‘Giving a new mother a leaflet does not amount to informed consent. We would like to see a system brought in across the whole country which would see all samples destroyed after a certain period of time.’<br />
She added: ‘No one who has just given birth is in a state to understand the full implications of how their baby’s genome might be used in future.’<br />
More than 700,000 babies aged five to eight days old are screened every year for a number of serious conditions such as sickle cell and cystic fibrosis. <br />
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According to FOI requests, four million samples are currently being held at four centres in the country.<br />
One million have been in storage dating from 1984 at Central Manchester University Hospitals Trust. It has about 250,000 in its laboratory which it plans to store indefinitely.<br />
Cambridge University Hospitals Trust stores 400,000 samples at Endex archives in Ipswich and 62,800 in its labs – they are kept for 18 years.<br />
About 120,000 samples are taken every year at Great Ormond Street hospital in London, a practice it began in 1990. It confirmed that it had occasionally handed samples, which it keeps for 20 years, to coroners but not to the police.<br />
In order to obtain access to an individual sample, officers would need to obtain a court order.<br />
Campaigners have urged Andrew Lansley, the new Secretary of State for Health, to launch an inquiry into the practice.<br />
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: ‘As someone who gave consent for my own baby to be tested, I’m horrified that anyone would breach my trust, keep my child’s sample for years on end and use it for all sorts of extraneous purposes,’ she said.<br />
‘If they think that thrusting a leaflet in an exhausted new mother’s hand creates informed consent, they can look forward to a flurry of claims under article 8 of the Human Rights Act.<br />
‘Liberty is writing to the new health secretary to ask for an urgent investigation.’<br />
A spokesman for the Department of Health said: ‘Blood spot screening is an important test carried out to identify serious conditions in newborn babies. <br />
'Research on blood spots left over once screening tests have been completed have led to medical advances benefiting children and their families.<br />
‘There are strict safeguards in place that protect the sample once it is taken. Parents are well informed about newborn screening and the sample storage. They receive a number of information packs during pregnancy and afterbirth.’<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>On Sunday March 21, 2010 the Senate Healthcare bill HR3200 was passed and signed into law the following Tuesday. Like I said before, there are a legion of horrible and just plain evil aspects to this bill and I’m sure you’ve heard a lot them by now. I don’t want to discount them but what cannot be missed here is this new law now opens a prophetic door on a magnitude not seen since the reformation of Israel.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This new law requires an RFID chip implanted in all of us. This chip will not only contain your personal information with tracking capability but it will also be linked to your bank account. And get this, Page 1004 of the new law (dictating the timing of this chip), reads, and I quote: </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>“Not later than 36 months after the date of the enactment”.</strong> It is now the law of the land that by <strong>March 23rd 2013</strong> we will all be required to have an RFID chip underneath our skin and this chip will be link to our bank accounts as well as have our personal records and tracking capability built into it.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Is it now starting to dawn on you just where exactly we are in prophecy? </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>I’ll ask that question again in a minute and follow up on it, but now I want to show you the law itself. I’ve downloaded a PDF copy of HR3200 from the government’s website so what I’m </em></span><a href="http://polidics.com/911/about.html" title="about"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>about</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> to show you is from the bill itself its nothing that I’ve written. You can access it all and see it all for yourself straight from the source itself.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Despite more than a million innocent people’s DNA remaining on the database, and huge concerns around the operation of extradition law, the Coaltion has indicated it will implement the 2008 Prum Treaty. You might share our surprise at this, given that in opposition then Tory shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve warned: ‘There is a real risk that a disproportionate number of innocent British citizens will be sucked into foreign criminal investigations.’</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Prum is described as a ‘fast-track’ scheme to allow European states to ask another state to check a DNA sample against their database and pass on the results.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A fast-track scheme is how the European Arrest Warrant was described, only for it to be grossly abused at the expense of the liberty of British people. This is yet another risk to our rights to a fair trial, in the name of European compliance.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The news comes days after it emerged a teenager has spent three months in jail for an offence he didn’t commit after a DNA database mix up. </em></span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114252/Teenager-spends-months-bars-DNA-blunder-fingers-rape-city-visited.html"><span style="color: #de801b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Daily Mail</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> has reported how the nineteen year old was found guilty of rape, in a city that he had never visited, after his DNA sample was mixed with that of the attacker’s.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Adam Scott had provided a swab of DNA for an unrelated crime that had been sent to a laboratory run by LGC Forensics, one of three forensic firms in the UK used specifically for DNA crime-scene testing. The firm handles thousands of samples of DNA on behalf of police forces around the country and it is feared that this case could only be the first of many DNA mix-ups that have occurred.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Following up the protestations of having never visited the city that the offence took place they questioned LGC Forensics who insisted that there was a definite match. Mr Scott was subsequently sentenced to three months on remand before beginning a year-long sentence following conviction for his original charge. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has formally dropped the case against the teenager since it came to light that the evidence had been contaminated.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Now imagine the same mix up takes place abroad. Suddenly a British citizen could be extradited under such evidence. Those familiar with the gross injustices resulting from the abuse of the European Arrest Warrant system will be all to wary of this scheme.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>As highlighted by Dominic Raab MP, “Britain has not suffered from being out of this pan-European data sharing regime. But, if we opt in, with a million innocent people’s DNA on our police database and a 67 per cent error rate under the EU scheme, more and more UK citizens risk finding themselves mistakenly dragged into criminal investigations abroad.“</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A Home Office spokesman insisted: ‘The only DNA records that would be shared under the new system are those relating to individuals with convictions, either in the UK or overseas.’</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Well, watch this space.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> Big Brother Watch is currently finalising research that will cast new light on the truth behind the Coalition’s claims on the DNA Database.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The technology "gives physicians a real-time connection to their patient's health, and patients are freed from the daily reminder, or burden, of disease," said co-author Robert Langer, a professor of cancer research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Langer and colleagues were to present their findings later Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, Canada.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The device is about the size of a pacemaker and contains daily doses of medication inside small wells that open up either on a predetermined schedule, <u>or when the chip is given a wireless signal to release the drugs.</u></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"Each of these wells is covered by a nano-thin layer of gold which protects the drug for years if needed and prevents it from being released," said Langer in a statement released ahead of the presentation.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The wireless signal causes the gold to dissolve and allows the drug to enter the bloodstream.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In this case, researchers tested the device on seven women age 65-70 in Denmark who were prescribed the drug teriparatide for osteoporosis. The microchip was implanted just below their waistlines.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><u>After tracking the women for 12 months,</u> researchers found that the treatment improved bone formation and reduced the risk of bone fracture, and delivered the drug just as effectively as daily injections.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>However, the same issues that raised concerns in animal studies were also observed in the women:<u> the formation of fibrous collagen-based tissue around the microchip.</u></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The presence of the tissue has raised concerns among researchers over its potential to interrupt drug delivery, though no such problems were observed in the one-year study, after which the women had the chips removed.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Scientists plan to continue studies on the microchip delivery system in heart disease, multiple sclerosis, cancer and chronic pain. The device is likely about five years away from potential market approval, the authors said.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>1. Summary. EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers met informally in Lisbon October 1-2. An embassy officer attended to follow discussion of such topics as the elimination of land and sea travel barriers in December, the establishment of a counternarcotics analysis and operations center, the submission of a package of counterterrorism proposals by Vice President Frattini in November, the submission of a package of border control proposals by Frattini in February, and the establishment of a missing children alert system based on the U.S. Amber Alert. End summary.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>2. European Union Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Ministers held an informal ministerial in Lisbon October 1-2, chaired by Portuguese Minister of Internal Administration Rui Pereira and Minister for Justice Alberto Costa. Representatives from relevant EU institutions, Vice President of the European Commission Franco Frattini, and the Turkish Minister for Justice Mehmet Ali Sahin also participated. An embassy officer attended the proceedings to hear public statements first-hand and to engage attendees on the margins.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>3. As a lead-in to the meetings, on September 30 participating member states formally signed the protocol to establish the Maritime Analysis and Operations Center - Narcotics (MAOC-N). Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom founded the center to share intelligence and coordinate counternarcotics efforts. The U.S., though not formally a member, has liaison officers assigned to the MAOC.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>4. Also on the agenda but in advance of the informal ministerial meetings, the Spanish and Portuguese Interior Ministers held a bilateral meeting in which they established a task force to coordinate counterterrorism investigations and prosecutions. Pereira noted that although bilateral cooperation had long existed, the task force was established to be more proactive in regard to investigations and cooperation. During the proceedings, Portugal also signed a bilateral agreement with Malta to resettle refugees in Portugal that are currently resident in Malta.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>5. SIS/VIS: Frattini and Pereira both noted that by Christmas, all land and sea barriers in the Schengen area will be removed for nine participating Schengen states, Cyprus having requested an extension. Air travel barriers, he said, would be removed in March. Noting that the Schengen Information System (SIS) has succeeded in its testing phase, Frattini suggested that the formal decision to implement the new rules will be taken in November. Frattini also suggested that the EU must have an entry-exit register complete with biometric identifiers. This would, he opined, help manage overstays as well as be a useful data source for security services. Additionally, he noted that various databases and security systems need to be integrated and expanded to include travelers without visas. Moreover, such a European surveillance system must be accessible to local law enforcement. An aide to Frattini said that this package of proposals would be submitted to the college of Commissioners in February.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>6. PNR/ETA: Frattini said he would submit a terrorism package to the Commissioners November 6 that includes a proposal to establish formally an EU-wide Passenger Name Recognition (PNR) system.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> He noted that the requirements demanded by U.S. negotiators convinced him that the European security services should have access to the same kind of information. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Pereira and German Minister Schauble suggested that, in addition to the intelligence value, a PNR system would allow the EU to negotiate with the U.S. on an equal footing and would allow for balanced cooperation.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Pereira said he would also support a PNR for intra-European flights. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Schauble said further discussion on that point would be needed. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Frattini and Schauble both noted that electronic travel authorizations (ETA) are useful not just for improving security, but also improving the customer service at airports.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> With ever increasing crowds at airports, Schauble noted that it is in a traveler's interest to participate in a voluntary ETA program.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>7. Internet: Frattini will also submit a proposal to punish misuse of the internet. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>This will not, he stressed, be a limit on the freedom of expression. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Indeed, added Frattini, the EU already has a regulation that prohibits transfer of illegal data on the internet, without causing concerns of limitation of freedom of speech. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>This proposal, he continued, would only add the specific mention of terrorism. Such an update, he opined, is a good example of why the EU needs regularly to review and update its bodies of law.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>8. Conspiracy: Pereira noted that Italian Minister Amato suggested that the ministers consider developing an EU agreement to incorporate conspiracy statutes into existing law. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Current legislation is directed towards formal terrorist organizations, which does not adequately address current realities. Italy, and a few other states, punish conspiracy without being part of a formal organization; Pereira and Frattini each enthusiastically supported the idea that the EU consider the question.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>10. e-Justice Portal: Costa issued a statement that ministers agreed that the EU should have an information technology system to facilitate access to member states' judicial systems and registry systems. Member states will compile best practices on IT and regularly review performance.</em></span><br />
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<div sizcache="0" sizset="76"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">11. Missing Children Alert: Frattini used the well-known case of </span></em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/madeleinemccann" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Madeleine McCann"><em><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;"><strong>Madeleine McCann</strong></span></em></a><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="color: black;">,</span></strong> </span>a missing British girl, to lay out his intention to develop an EU wide alert system for missing children. Frattini specifically and repeatedly mentioned the Amber Alert system in the U.S. as the model that the EU needed to copy. In addition, the e-Justice Portal, according to Costa, will include a list of missing children and direct users to appropriate Hague Convention resources.</span></span></em></span></div><div sizcache="0" sizset="76"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>12. Child Protection: Costa also noted that the ministers agreed to expand the role of the European Mediator for international child abductions and to support the strengthening and implementation of laws related to child protection. Hoffman</em></span></div></div></div><br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/125480">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/125480</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-82132080046892447272012-01-07T04:29:00.001-08:002012-01-07T04:31:59.896-08:00December 2008 : DNA Details Of Thousands MAY Be Cut From The DNA Database<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138699 articleContent" nodeindex="3"><span class="storyTop "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Thousands of innocent people could be removed from the national DNA database under plans being considered by ministers.</em></span><br />
</span><div class="body "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, said yesterday that about 70 children under 10 would have their profiles removed from the system immediately, while detailed proposals would be published next year to remove details of some of the 850,000 people without a conviction who are on the database</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>But she stopped short of pledging to remove the DNA profiles of all people cleared of an offence, insisting the system needed to be "as tough as possible" to ensure that criminals were caught and convicted. Ms Smith also revealed she was considering changing the law to take DNA samples from serious offenders who are in prison but were convicted before the database was created in 1995. The Government is also seeking powers to allow police to take samples from serious offenders who have been released from jail.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Ministers have until March to respond to a European court ruling which said keeping DNA samples of people with no convictions was a breach of their human rights. Among proposals being considered are a time limit on the storage of samples, similar to the system in Scotland, where they are destroyed after five years. Other plans include assessing the seriousness of leged crimes to determine whether a suspect's details should be retained. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The DNA samples of many child offenders could be removed at 18.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><u>Ms Smith made it clear that she did not support removing all DNA records from people who had been cleared of an offence. </u></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>She cited the case of Sally Anne Bowman, whose killer was convicted on DNA evidence based on a sample taken following a pub brawl for which he was acquitted.</em></span></div></div><br />
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dna-details-of-thousands-may-be-cut-from-database-1192827.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dna-details-of-thousands-may-be-cut-from-database-1192827.html</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-62129179206993477402012-01-06T15:36:00.000-08:002012-01-06T15:55:18.933-08:00McCanns Wanted An Abduction Alert System - They Also Arranged For Information To Be Leaked To Derail The Investigation - The Crying Incident Was Born<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>McCanns' were in Brussels as police questioned their friends in England over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.</em></span><br />
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<a href="http://hurryupharry.org/2011/05/31/a-charity-a-lady-a-scandal/"><span style="color: #942129;">http://hurryupharry.org/2011/05/31/a-charity-a-lady-a-scandal/</span></a></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-6455157903181492302012-01-06T15:02:00.001-08:002012-01-06T15:24:48.784-08:00March 6th 2008 : 'Alert' Would Have Saved Madeleine McCann - However, NO Mention Of Child Neglecting Parents NOR Soon To Be Exposed Fraudster Lady Catherine Meyer !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Europe-wide missing-child alert system would have "without doubt" saved Madeleine McCann, an expert on child abduction said. </em></span><br />
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<div class="secondPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Lady Catherine Meyer, who founded a charity to tackle child abduction, called for a single Europe-wide telephone number that parents could ring the moment their child went missing. </em></span></div><div class="thirdPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><img align="right" alttext="Madeleine McCann" author="MISSING" caption="A Europe-wide alert system may have helped to find missing Madeleine McCann" declared-caption="A Europe-wide alert system may have helped to find missing Madeleine McCann" height="200" name="news-graphics-2008-03-06-nmadeleine106.jpg" photographer="" published="true" refid="658234" source="LiveStaging" sourceid="news-graphics-2008-03-06-nmadeleine106.jpg" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00658/news-graphics-2008-_658234a.jpg" width="300" xourceid="news-graphics-2008-03-06-nmadeleine106.jpg" /></img> </em></span></div><div class="fourthPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The system, similar to the Amber Alert in the United States, would flash the child’s details up on television and motorway signs. <br />
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Lady Meyer, wife of Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to Washington, said: "I am without a doubt sure that if an Amber Alert was in place when Madeleine McCann went missing she would have been found, without a doubt."<br />
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She added that British police were "decades behind" America in terms of acting with speed and efficiency to find missing children. <br />
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"Police say child abduction doesn’t happen in Britain, they say 'there are just one or two highlighted cases’, but it does happen here," she said. "It is just not reported properly."<br />
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A spokesman for the McCanns said: "Kate and Gerry fully support any effort to increase co-ordination across Europe in the case where a child has gone missing.</em></span></div><div class="fifthPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"In America they have the Amber Alert system for sending children’s details across the country quickly. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"They welcome anything that can lead to greater co-ordination across Europe that can help to stop other children going missing in the future."</em></span></div><div class="body"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He added: "They know Catherine very well and have had discussion with her about this."</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The European Commission launched a Europe-wide missing-child hotline number, 116000, in February last year, but so far only Belgium, Denmark, Greece and Portugal have adopted the scheme. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Commission’s vice-president, Franco Frattini, said he was disappointed with the progress made at a national level.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"Only four member states showed goodwill until now."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Lady Meyer, founder of Parents and Abducted Children Together (Pact), said that since the US Amber Alert system was set up 1996, following the abduction and murder of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman, 393 missing children have been successfully recovered.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Lady Meyer also called for a single body to co-ordinate child abduction across the UK and Europe and for the European Union to take a tougher stance on children abducted abroad by members of their own family.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Lady Meyer’s sons, Alexander and Constantin are now adults. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>But in an interiew in 2003 with the Daily Telegraph she said she had seen them for only 25 hours since they were abducted by her former husband Hans-Peter Volkmann nine years earlier.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He defied a court order by keeping them in Germany when they went there on holiday without their mother. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>German courts repeatedly denied her access, although she received backing from courts in Britain and France and support from politicians in Europe and the US.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Her legal battle to get access to them cost her £200,000 - she had to sell her flat, lost her job and several times came close to suicide. </em></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong><u>LADY CATHERINE MEYER TURNED OUT TO BE A FRAUDSTER</u></strong></span><br />
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<a href="http://madeleinemccannagenda.blogspot.com/2012/01/mccanns-friend-lady-catherine-myer.html">http://madeleinemccannagenda.blogspot.com/2012/01/mccanns-friend-lady-catherine-myer.html</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-40921429356176566982012-01-06T14:50:00.003-08:002012-01-06T14:53:05.615-08:00Dec 2007 : Suspect And Child Neglector Gerry McCann Nominated For Scot Of The Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="mainBodyArea"><div class="firstPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Madeleine McCann's father has been nominated for the title of Scot of the Year 2007, alongside Gordon Brown and former Scotland manger Alex McLeish.</em></span><br />
</div><div class="secondPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Glasgow-born Gerry McCann was one of 12 candidates put forward by the </em></span><a href="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/" jquery1325890250390="54" lang="en.uk"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Scotland on Sunday</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> newspaper for an online poll.</em></span><br />
</div><div class="thirdPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><img align="right" alttext="Madeleine McCanns parents have launched a fresh appeal for information" author="MISSING" caption="Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3" declared-caption="Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3" height="220" name="news-graphics-2007-12-07-wmaddy.jpg" photographer="" published="true" refid="653326" source="LiveStaging" sourceid="news-graphics-2007-12-07-wmaddy.jpg" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00653/news-graphics-2007-_653326a.jpg" width="170" xourceid="news-graphics-2007-12-07-wmaddy.jpg" /></img> </em></span></div><div class="fourthPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The news came as the family issued a desperate plea for information after it emerged that police had still not traced every holidaymaker who was in Praia da Luz on the night of the toddler's disappearance. </em></span><br />
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</div><!-- BEFORE ACI --><div class="body"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Meanwhile, a lawyer for Robert Murat, the first suspect in the case, said Portuguese detectives could conclude their inquiry as soon as January 3. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Francisco Pagarete said a public prosecutor would decide early in the New Year whether to charge his client or Kate and Gerry McCann. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Under Portuguese law, at that point the evidence-gathering process will end and the prosecutor will either formally accuse one or more of the three - all "arguidos" or official suspects - or shelve the case, he said. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Mr Pagarete predicted this was most likely to happen on January 3, exactly eight months after Madeleine vanished from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz. All three deny any involvement in the girl's disappearance.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The McCanns have urged all tourists who were staying in and around the Ocean Club resort on May 3 to come forward in the hope that new witnesses would be found. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"We would appeal to any UK residents who have still not been spoken to by British police and who were in Praia da Luz on May 3 to please come forward and to contact their local police or the confidential phone line based in Spain," said Clarence Mitchell, the official spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"We know for instance that there are a number of British people who were staying in or around the Ocean Club when Madeleine was abducted and who have not yet been interviewed by British police," he said. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Holiday firm Mark Warner is understood to have forwarded a list of all their guests and staff who were at the Algarve resort during the week of Madeleine's disappearance to Leicestershire police, who are co-ordinating inquiries in Britain on behalf of the Portuguese authorities. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>But many tourists in Praia da Luz booked their holidays independently of any travel group and some of their identities are still not known. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The task has been made more difficult by the failure by Portuguese police to question everyone staying at the resort. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Meanwhile one element of the investigation will fall into the hands of Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary, this weekend, who has 48 hours to decide whether permission will be granted for the Portuguese police to re-interview the McCanns and their friends. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>It has been reported that Portuguese authorities are ready to send the Home Office a "letter of appeal" with a list of questions to put to members of the so-called Tapas Nine - the name given to the McCanns and the seven friends who dined with them on the night of Madeleine's disappearance. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>News of Mr McCann's Scot of the Year 2007 nomination was played down by Clarence Mitchell, the family's spokesman.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"Of course he would be flattered and buoyed by the support but this has come about entirely for the wrong reasons," he said.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"The only thing that would make Gerry happy is to be reunited with his daughter," he said.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Readers of the Sunday newspaper have been given one week to vote online for the Scot who has "inspired us most through the past year". </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"Whether they are recognised stars in their field or people who have been thrust into the limelight by events, we want to hear about them," the paper's website says. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Other suggested candidates include Gordon Brown, Scotland football coach Alex McLeish, who resigned after the team failed to qualify for Euro 2008 and John Smeaton, the baggage handler who helped foil a terrorist attack on Glasgow airport. </em></span></div><div class="cl"></div></div><br />
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1571852/Gerry-McCann-nominated-for-Scot-of-the-Year.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1571852/Gerry-McCann-nominated-for-Scot-of-the-Year.html</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-45473722012036740162012-01-06T10:33:00.000-08:002012-01-06T10:33:03.045-08:00July 25th 2007 : Whitehouse Trip - Visit to the US to find out about America's "more advanced systems" to track down missing children.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>Madeleine's father quizzed over decision to leave her on her own</u></span></h1><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The father of missing Madeleine McCann was yesterday forced to defend his decision to leave his daughter alone on the night she was snatched.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry McCann was grilled by American TV networks about why he and his wife Kate did not hire a babysitter to watch their three children as they dined with friends.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry, 39, is in the States on a fact-finding mission to see how they deal with the issue of child abduction and exploitation - as well as publicise Madeleine's case.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Speaking on ABC's Good Morning America, the heart consultant said: "We were dining 50 yards away and we could see the apartment from where we were. It's like we were sat in our back garden, all be it at the end of our garden.</em></span><br />
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<div id="ArtContentImgBodyC" style="width: 470px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><img alt="Gerry McCann" border="1" height="692" src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_02/mccan1ALBN2407_468x692.jpg" width="468" /> </em></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry McCann leaves the White House after his visit to publicise Madeleine's disappearance</em></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"The kids were sound asleep and they were being checked regularly. We didn't think we needed a babysitter. "We are good parents and what we did felt perfectly reasonable at the time.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"Hindsight is an incredible thing. Clearly we couldn't have predicted what was to happen."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He was also quizzed about the possibility he and GP Kate, also 39, could be prosecuted for leaving Madeleine and two year old twins Sean and Amelie alone in the apartment that night.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He told CNN: "We have been assured by the authorities that what we did fell well within the boundaries of good parenting.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"Madeleine was targeted by a predator and we shouldn't have to be worrying about people getting into our homes and gardens and playgrounds. That is the real criminal act here."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry visited the White House on Tuesday to meet with senior staff of First Lady Laura Bush.</em></span><br />
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<div id="ArtContentImgBodyR" style="width: 230px;"><img alt="madeleine" border="1" height="396" src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_01/madeleineG_228x396.jpg" width="228" /> Madeleine McCann has been missing since May 3</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Mrs Bush has taken a personal interest in Madeleine's case but was unable to meet Gerry because of prior commitments.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerru has already met US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in Washington to discuss efforts to tackle child abduction.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He also met experts from the National and International Centres for Missing and Exploited Children.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He said: "Obviously my focus just now is on trying to get our daughter back. That's the key thing.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"But I think there is a lot of goodwill out there at the minute, that we might be able to leave something tangible for all children, and I think most people agree that these sorts of crimes should not happen and the perpetrators have to be pursued wherever these crimes are performed."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Mr McCann is on four-day fact-finding visit to the US to find out about America's "more advanced systems" to track down missing children.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"She knows very much that we love her and we won't stop searching for her."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry McCann has taken his search for Madeleine from US daytime TV all the way to the White House.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He is said to be convinced that the high-profile campaign to find his daughter Madeleine could also help other missing children</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The 39-year-old heart specialist is in America on his global crusade publicising the four-year-old's disappearance from a holiday apartment in Portugal at the beginning of May.</em></span><br />
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<div id="ArtContentImgBodyC" style="width: 470px;"><img alt="McCann" border="1" height="619" src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_02/mccann2AP2307_468x619.jpg" width="468" /> Gerry McCann is on fact-finding visit to find out about America's 'more advanced systems' to track down missing children</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He also met experts from the National and International Centres for Missing and Exploited Children.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"Obviously my focus just now is on trying to get our daughter back. That's the key thing.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"But I think there is a lot of goodwill out there at the minute, that we might be able to leave something tangible for all children, and I think most people agree that these sorts of crimes should not happen and the perpetrators have to be pursued wherever these crimes are performed."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Mr McCann is on four-day fact-finding visit to the US to find out about America's "more advanced systems" to track down missing children.</em></span><br />
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</em></span><div id="ArtContentImgBodyC" style="width: 470px;"><img alt="McCann " border="1" height="404" src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_02/mccannAP2307_468x404.jpg" width="468" /> Madeleine's father met US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in Washington to discuss efforts to tackle child abduction</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He and his wife, Kate, have mounted a vigorous campaign to find Madeleine since she disappeared from the apartment in the holiday resort of Praia da Luz.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"She knows very much that we love her and we won't stop searching for her."</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Madeleine McCann has been missing since May 3.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The National and International Centres for Missing and Exploited Children were established in 1984 and 1998 respectively after six-year-old Adam Walsh was murdered after being snatched from a department store in Florida in 1981.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The case led to a major review of child abduction cases in the US and legislation passed last year - the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act - was named in his honour.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The Act significantly strengthens America's nationwide <u>sex offender registration system and introduces harsher penalties for child sex offenders.</u></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry McCann thanked officers for their help in the search for his four-year-old daughter and urged them not to give up the hunt.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He wiped away tears after a poignant video of his daughter was shown at the Police Bravery Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He said he and his wife Kate were now fully aware of the police's "sterling work".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Madeleine was snatched from her bed as she slept in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Mr McCann told his audience: "Over the past 10 weeks Kate and I have been reminded of what a wonderful job you do.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"The role of our forces is often not appreciated until you really need their help.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"Kate and I would like to thank all of the police officers in the UK that were involved in the operation to find Madeleine for their sterling work."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He also praised the Portuguese police and other forces in countries where Madeleine has supposedly been sighted for their "commitment and co-operation".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Mr McCann said: "It's been 70 days since Madeleine was snatched from her bed as she slept. Each of those 70 days has been unbearable for her family. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>No child should be separated from its family in such a way."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>He once again praised the "support and kind words" he and his family have received from members of the public, adding: "We will not give up and we will not stop searching for her."</em></span><br />
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<a href="http://news.sky.com/home/madeleine/article/1275024">http://news.sky.com/home/madeleine/article/1275024</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-1728923229038990132012-01-06T08:01:00.000-08:002012-01-06T08:01:38.877-08:00May 27th 2007 :Madeleine - Brown Urged Police To Give More Details<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The disturbing fact of how the McCanns used Gordon Brown to manipulate the Portuguese investigation is remarkable. The McCanns wanted the police to give the media a description of an abductor that was to all intense and purposes fabricated by a member of their group, Jane Tanner...the ONLY proof that Madeleine was abducted! Gordon Brown was a fool!</em></span></div><div class="stand-first-alone"><br />
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</div><div class="full-line tweet tweet_button" sizcache="0" sizset="59"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gordon Brown has personally intervened in the search for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann after her parents became frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation.</em></span></div><div class="full-line tweet tweet_button" sizcache="0" sizset="59"><br />
</div><div id="content" sizcache="1" sizset="62"><div id="article-wrapper"><div id="article-body-blocks"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>After a series of telephone conversations with Madeleine's father, Gerry McCann in recent days, the Chancellor requested assistance from the Foreign Office and the Home Office. He asked that pressure be brought to bear on the Portuguese authorities to allow more information about the inquiry to be made public.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry and his wife, Kate, have been desperate for a description of a man seen carrying what appears to have been a child on 3 May to be made public, but Portuguese police refused for three weeks because of the country's laws, which forbid the details of an investigation being released.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The Observer understands that Brown gave the McCanns an assurance he would do 'anything he can' to help. The British embassy duly applied pressure on the Portuguese authorities to find more flexibility in their secrecy laws. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>British ambassador John Buck visited the Algarve last Thursday. A day later Portuguese police made a U-turn and issued a detailed description of the man, said to be white, 35 to 40, 5ft 10in and of medium build, with hair longer around the neck, wearing a dark jacket, light beige trousers and dark shoes.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Asked whether Brown had influenced the decision, Clarence Mitchell, a Foreign Office spokesman for the McCann family in the Algarve, said: 'Draw your own conclusions.' He said in a statement: 'I can confirm that telephone conversations have taken place between Gerry McCann and Chancellor Gordon Brown. During them, Mr Brown offered both Gerry and Kate his full support in their efforts to find Madeleine, although details of the conversations will remain private.'</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Although they have praised the efforts being made to find their daughter, the McCanns were said to be increasingly frustrated in recent days at delays and communication problems. The family have met lawyers in the Algarve and threatened legal action to push for the information to be released because of the exceptional circumstances.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The Observer can confirm that a top law firm in London had been asked late last week to seek legal avenues through which the McCanns could be kept up to date on the latest developments in the investigations.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>It also emerged yesterday that The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall had been following the case 'closely and with deep concern'.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The McCanns yesterday emerged from their apartment to say that they had had an 'amicable and very constructive' meeting with police. 'We very much welcome the decision of the police authorities to release details of a man seen by witnesses here in Praia da Luz on Thursday, 3 May, the night of Madeleine's disappearance,' Gerry said in a statement.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>'The release of this important information followed an earlier meeting we had with senior police officers. We feel sure that this sighting of a man with what appeared to be a child in his arms is both significant and relevant to Madeleine's abduction.'</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>It emerged that the couple plan to widen their search across Europe. The McCanns are expected to visit Seville and Madrid before moving on to Berlin and Amsterdam. A source said that the reasoning behind the visits is that, 'after Britons, Spanish, Germans and the Dutch are the most frequent visitors to the Algarve', and the most likely to have seen something suspicious.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The campaign fund is now well over £300,000, according to Mitchell. He stressed that the McCanns 'never asked for a single euro'.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>In a new interview yesterday the McCanns spoke about their feelings since the night they left their three children asleep in a holiday complex apartment while they dined with friends in the complex's grounds, returning to find Madeleine had been abducted, and their refusal to give up hope of welcoming her back with 'a very big hug'. Asked if she forgets for even one second that her daughter is missing, Kate said: 'Madeleine is such a huge personality it is obvious when she is not there.'</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry, wearing yellow and green ribbons on his wrist to accompany those his wife has tied to her hair for more than three weeks, said: 'My waking thought is that the phone by the bedside has not rung. And that means Madeleine has not been found.'</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Kate added: 'I am better in the morning, it seems like a fresh start. Evenings are harder. '</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The McCanns are drawing strength from their twins, two-year-old Sean and Amelie. Kate said: 'The twins are so young they just get on with things, but obviously we don't want them to forget about Madeleine. We are hoping to see a child psychologist to explain what has happened to Madeleine to the twins.'</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>She added: 'They help us to get through this. We are a strong family and they were so close to Madeleine, only 20 months apart.'</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gerry said: 'We could have lost the twins too. There were three children in the room. That's the worst nightmare... This is so rare. It's a million to one. We really have to make sure it doesn't affect the twins growing up and their normal childhood. 'This is not a time for grieving. We believe she is still alive, so grief is not the appropriate emotion. We are absolutely determined to get her back. It's a bit like we are waging a war. It's a backs-to-the-wall thing.' </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>His eyes welled up with tears when asked the first thing he would do if Madeleine returned home.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>'I think we will be having a very big hug. Hope, strength and courage are our motto. There is nothing more I would like than to see Madeleine walk in, so we could use the fund to help find other missing children.'</em></span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-88821348756336190512012-01-06T07:49:00.001-08:002012-01-06T07:53:46.694-08:00May 26th 2007 : Gordon Brown Offers Support For The McCanns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Chancellor Gordon Brown has had several telephone conversations with the father of missing Madeleine McCann, a family spokesman in Portugal confirmed.</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Brown offered both parents Gerry and Kate "his full support" in their efforts to find the four-year-old, who vanished on the night of 3 May. </span></span><br />
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Police have issued a description of a man seen on the night Madeleine was taken from the Praia da Luz apartment. <br />
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In a statement, Mr McCann said the sighting of the man was "significant". <br />
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A spokesman for the McCanns said: "I can confirm that telephone conversations have taken place between Gerry McCann and Chancellor Gordon Brown. <br />
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"During them, Mr Brown offered both Gerry and Kate his full support in their efforts to find Madeleine, although details of the conversations will remain private. <br />
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"The conversations took place against the background of the chancellor's earlier offer to help when he met and spoke to other members of the McCann family in the UK." <br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Police officers in the Algarve said the man they want to question was "carrying a child or an object that could have been taken as a child". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Portuguese police went public with the description after pressure from the McCann family to move the investigation on. <br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BBC correspondent Steve Kingstone in the Algarve said it was the first time the police had given a detailed description of a man they wanted to speak to. </span><br />
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But it is not known how long detectives had known this information or whether they believed the man abducted Madeleine, he added. <br />
The man is said to be white, 5ft 10in, medium build with short hair, and wearing a dark jacket, beige trousers and dark shoes. <br />
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The BBC's correspondent said police were publicly playing down the similarities between the man described and the only official suspect in the case, Robert Murat. <br />
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Mr Murat denies any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance. <br />
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Madeleine's parents said they were pleased that there "appeared to be a new development". <br />
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On Friday the McCanns told the BBC of the guilt they felt at not being with their daughter when she was abducted. <br />
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Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was abducted from her bed in the Algarve resort as her parents ate dinner at a nearby tapas restaurant. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This video has been the subject of a very sustained attack over the past Months, a clear, organised attempt to have it deleted. Whatever your thought's about the McCann case, I believe this has a right to exist. I feel that most of its questions are honest and valid, and can and should be posed without prejudice, and that to this day, they remain unanswered.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Thank you to everyone who has posted comments. I still believe, over FOUR years after having posted this, that these and many other questions still need to be answered, irrespective of what happened in Portugal that night. I am sure the HUGE, concerted efforts by some individuals will eventually result in having this Video removed from YouTube, as they have managed to achieve this with the very same video on GOOGLE Video.</em></span></em></span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://spudgunsspoutings.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://spudgunsspoutings.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>http://spudgunsspoutings.blogspot.com/</em></span></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-58956904591379279082012-01-06T07:09:00.001-08:002012-01-06T07:14:44.942-08:00Jan 2007:EU Faces Split On Police Powers -- At This Juncture It was Falling Apart - They Needed An Event - May 3rd Would Be That Event<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Germany presses reluctant European partners to allow armed police and undercover agents to operate with impunity outside their own country</em></span></div><ul class="share-links" id="content-actions" sizcache="1" sizset="59"><ul sizcache="1" sizset="59"><li class="full-line tweet tweet_button" sizcache="0" sizset="59"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The EU faces a damaging split over moves led by Germany to impose a radical law and order package. If enacted into European legislation, it would allow armed police to operate with impunity outside their home countries, privatised armed 'sky marshals' on civilian flights and a wide range of joint operations against alleged illegal migrants. </em></span></li>
</ul></ul><div id="content" sizcache="1" sizset="62"><div id="article-wrapper" sizcache="0" sizset="70"><div id="article-body-blocks" sizcache="0" sizset="70"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Observer has obtained confidential documents showing that Germany also wants to permit undercover officers working with criminal gangs to roam unrestricted across European borders. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The plans are provoking opposition in Whitehall and among senior British police officers. Many of them recall how, in 1996, a Dutch parliamentary inquiry revealed that tonnes of illegal drugs had been exported from the Netherlands to Britain with the assistance of Dutch undercover agents, who had allowed informants to run amok. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>'We have learnt the hard way how difficult it is to regulate undercover operations,' one source said, citing a series of high-profile Customs and Excise cases that collapsed in the Court of Appeal after irregularities came to light. 'We need to be extremely wary.' </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Germany's plans - which first came to light at a meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers in Dresden last week - threaten to derail or delay other measures allowing European police forces to share data, such as DNA and fingerprints. These have provoked criticism from civil libertarians, but have found broad agreement among governments. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Sources who attended the meeting say the Germans - present holders of the EU presidency - appeared to expect unanimous endorsement. Instead, they encountered 'solid opposition' in key areas from Britain, Sweden and the Czech Republic. Further talks will be held in Brussels next month. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The German package began as the Treaty of Prum, an agreement signed in the German town of that name between Germany, France, Austria and four other countries in 2005 but never negotiated by EU policy-making bodies. There was no consultation with the European Parliament - which scrutinises law and order measures. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Germany, with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble in the fore, wants all 27 member states to ratify the treaty and so adopt it as European law. But going about it in this way means members must swallow it whole, and even if it is discussed by national parliaments, they would have no power to amend it. A British spokeswoman said the UK was not prepared to do this. 'Though the Germans want it all, we think we can take some but not all of Prum into EU law,' she said. That would amount to a very different process, in which the European Parliament would be involved. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The treaty's relaxed approach to armed police arouses deep concern in Britain. Sky marshals - who can be private contractors as long as they are 'suitably trained' - would be allowed to carry guns on any flight, provided destination states are informed. In 'urgent situations', armed police could cross from one country to another without notice, and 'take any provisional measures necessary to avert imminent danger'. An urgent situation is defined as any circumstance where there is 'a risk [that] danger will materialise in the event of waiting for the host state's officers to act'. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>'I don't have to tell you how sensitive this is here,' a senior Metropolitan Police source said. 'We may have shot Jean Charles de Menezes in error, but overall, armed officers are still deployed here much less than anywhere in else in Europe, and we have by far the best record in armed incidents.' </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Even the Prum measures on sharing data are controversial. 'Of course, police forces can already get access to each other's information,' said Tony Bunyan of the civil liberties monitoring group Statewatch. 'The idea that they can't get what they need when they're looking for a rapist or paedophile is nonsense. But at the moment, they have to go through justice ministries, which leaves a paper trail and takes time. Prum speeds this up, and instead of needing a target suspect before they make a request for data, they will be able to go on what amount to Europe-wide fishing expeditions.' </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The treaty also requires police to make inquiries in response to requests from colleagues abroad if a person is not already in their database, and to obtain samples of his or her DNA. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A memo seen by The Observer from the German presidency suggests its long-term agenda is more radical. The aim, it states, is to 'simplify the cross-border deployment of undercover officers in order to step up member states' co-operation in the fight against serious cross-border crime'. Germany argues that one member state should be able to 'lend' its undercover police to another to make their operations more effective. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Contact: Owen Williams 020 7219 8659 </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The House of Lords European Union Committee have today criticised the German EU Presidency for attempting to bypass the proper procedures in trying to incorporate the Pr¼m Treaty into EU law. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Committee stress the importance of EU initiatives on increased cross-border cooperation in combating terrorism and serious crime. They regret that these will be replaced by the arrangements between Germany and six other Member States. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Pr¼m Treaty between Germany, Austria, Spain, France, and the Benelux countries gives the signatories access to each other's national databases containing:</em></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>DNA profiles</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Fingerprints</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Vehicle registration data. </em></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This is being extended to all Member States and will take the place of EU initiatives which in some respects would have gone wider.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>The Committee criticise the German Presidency for putting this proposal forward without:</strong> </em></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>an explanatory memorandum;</strong> </em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>an impact assessment;</strong> </em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>an estimate of the cost to Member States;</strong> </em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>time for proper consultation with Member States and the European Parliament.</strong> </em></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Presidency's proposal has provisions on data protection which are intended to supplement a general Data Protection Framework Decision, but no such Framework Decision has been agreed. The Government must make sure it is agreed before the Pr¼m Treaty becomes EU law.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A major concern of the Committee is that the UK has a much lower threshold for collecting and holding DNA profiles than any other Member State;. the UK's DNA database is 50% larger than those of all other Member States combined. In most European nations DNA profiles are kept only for criminals convicted of serious offences. In the UK they are kept for most individuals who are arrested regardless of whether charges are bought or convictions achieved. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>This could result in British citizens who have never been convicted of any crime having their DNA details shared across European police forces.</strong> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Lord Wright of Richmond, who chaired the Lords Committee looking at the Pr¼m Treaty, said:</strong> </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>"We have serious concerns about the way the German Presidency are trying to incorporate the Pr¼m Treaty into EU law.</strong> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"What was an agreement between seven Members States is now intended to become law binding across the EU. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Presidency should have followed the established procedures to allow Member States, national Parliaments and the European Parliament a proper opportunity to consider the proposal.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>"We regret that the Presidency declined to give evidence to the Committee about the proposal.</strong> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"The Presidency proposal needs unanimity. The Government now have an opportunity to ensure that uniform data protection standards are agreed across the EU before anything else is agreed."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Notes to Editors</strong> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>1. The report is published by The Stationery Office, Pr¼m: an effective weapon against terrorism and crime?, House of Lords European Union Committee (Sub-Committee on Home Affairs), 18th Report of 2006/07, HL Paper 90. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>2. The full report will be available shortly after publication at: </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>For copies of the report or to request an interview with Lord Wright please contact Owen Williams, committee press officer on 020 7219 8659.</strong> </em></span><br />
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<a href="" name="top"></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>At the informal meeting of <abbr title="European Union">EU</abbr> home affairs ministers in Dresden today, the Federal Minister of the Interior, <abbr title="Doctor">Dr</abbr> <span lang="de" xml:lang="de">Wolfgang Schäuble</span>, presented an initiative to transpose the <span lang="de" xml:lang="de">Prüm</span> Treaty into the legal framework of the EU by drafting EU legislation using the exact wording of the Prüm Treaty.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The treaty, which was signed by seven European states (Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria and Spain) in the town of Prüm, provides for greater cross-border cooperation of police and judicial authorities, particularly in combating terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal migration. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The core element of the treaty is the creation of a network of national databases to step up the exchange of information. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>By now, four additional Member States (Finland, Italy, <u>Portugal</u> and Slovenia) have declared their intention to accede to the treaty. Germany and Austria have already begun to check the contents of their national databases against each other.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Minister Schäuble commented as follows:</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>“With the initiative we hope to transpose the wording of the Prüm Treaty into EU legislation to make the added value provided by the treaty available to all 27 EU Member States. Our aim is to create a modern police information network for more effective crime control throughout Europe.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>“The special value of the treaty lies in the substantially improved and efficiently organized procedures for the exchange of information. Promising results have been achieved after the initial implementation phase, which demonstrates that the Prüm Treaty contributes significantly to strengthening internal security in Europe.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>“For example, under the treaty Austria and Germany have been able to check the contents of their national <abbr title="Deoxyribonucleic acid">DNA</abbr> databases against each other since early December 2006. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>This is the first time that two countries have granted each other access to their national police databases using a hit/no hit method. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>In just six weeks, when German untraceables were checked against the Austrian database, 1500 matches were found, and when Austrian untraceables were checked against the German database, 1400 matches resulted.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>“On the basis of these results, where untraceables could be matched with a person in the database, police investigators are now able to match hits with unsolved crimes. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Thus, it can be expected that Germany and Austria will be able to solve unsolved crimes and prosecute and punish the offenders.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>“These figures are proof that the idea behind the <u>Prüm Treaty</u> to create a network of existing national databases is a simple, yet very effective means to fight cross-border crime and international terrorism. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The exchange of information under the <u>Prüm Treaty</u> also extends to granting other Member States access to national fingerprint files and motor vehicle registries. We want to gradually begin with sharing such information already in the first half of this year.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>“With a view to more effective crime control in Europe, all European states should participate in the <u>Prüm Treaty. </u></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Therefore, I am pleased that the proposal to transpose the <u>Prüm Treaty</u> into EU law, which was submitted informally by the German Presidency together with the other Prüm signatories and the European Commission today, has been so very well received. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>With this in mind, we want to take up formal discussions at the next meeting of justice and home affairs ministers in Brussels on 15/16 February.”</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>In addition, the treaty entered into force in Austria and Spain on 1 November 2006, as it did in Germany on 23 November 2006. Luxembourg ratified the treaty at the end of December. The other signatories are also making efforts to have the treaty ratified by<u> spring 2007. <span style="color: blue;">(McCanns by then were in the frame and willing accomplices)</span></u></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>On the basis of the treaty, the participating states may now give one another automated access to specific national databases.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>This amounts to a quantum leap in the cross-border sharing of information. For example, the contracting states have full and direct online read access to vehicle registration data held by their partners. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The contracting parties give one another access to their DNA analysis files and dactyloscopic (fingerprint) files in what is called a hit/no hit system. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Police services may launch a query in the data system of a contracting partner to find out whether it contains data concerning a specific profile, and are automatically informed of the result within a matter of minutes.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Further information, such as personal data, may be communicated in the course of mutual legal assistance.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The treaty also contains provisions concerning the exchange of information relevant for counter-terrorism and data concerning travelling violent offenders.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>To prevent terrorist offences, personal information about potential perpetrators of terrorist attacks may also be communicated. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The treaty allows the authorities to exchange information on travelling violent offenders, such as hooligans, in the context of major events (for example football matches, European Council meetings or other international summits) in order to prevent criminal acts.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Furthermore, the <u>Prüm Treaty</u> is a means to improve police cooperation by operational measures.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The treaty provides for various types of joint operations such as joint patrols and cross-border intervention to avert immediate danger, and for granting executive powers to police officers of other contracting states.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> For example, police officers from another Member State may be deployed to enhance security at large-scale public events such as the European Football Championship or an EU summit, while being granted the same rights and duties as police officers from the host country.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>A positive aspect worthy of particular mention is the comprehensive range of modern data protection regulations.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>As the drafters of the <u>Prüm Treaty</u> sought to further develop European cooperation, the treaty was designed with its transposing into the legal framework of the EU in mind. </em></span><br />
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</div><div id="content" sizcache="1" sizset="61"><div id="article-wrapper"><div id="article-body-blocks"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A battery of police data-sharing and electronic surveillance measures to tackle trans-national crime and immigration issues was agreed yesterday by governments in Europe, 15 of which also gave the green light to a scheme for the world's biggest biometric system. </em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The system will store and allow sharing of data such as the photographs and fingerprints of up to 70 million non-EU citizens applying for visas to enter Europe, </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Interior ministers from all 27 EU countries also agreed on automatic access to genetic information, fingerprints, and car registration details in police databases across the union. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The accord, set in Luxembourg and propelling a 2005 treaty into EU law, means police forces in one country will be able to enter the DNA details of a suspect in a European database, then obtain police information from another country if the DNA record hits a match elsewhere. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Germany, which has been driving the data-sharing campaign for the past six months, hailed the accord as "an important day for Europe". Wolfgang Schäuble, the German interior minister, said the pact was an "important element of a European information network". </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Germans and Austrians, who have been sharing DNA information on criminal suspects since December, are already claiming successes. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>According to the Austrian police the scheme led to the identification of a double-murder suspect: the arrest of a suspected burglar in Vienna in March, involving his genetic code being fed into the database, led to the discovery that the man was wanted over the murder of two people in Tenerife two years ago. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Britain, traditionally a jealous guardian of its sovereignty on police and judicial policy areas in the EU, welcomed the accord, after diluting some provisions for police cooperation earlier this year. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"Criminals do not respect borders," said Joan Ryan, the Home Office minister. "It is vitally important that our law enforcement authorities have the tools available to obtain information held by other EU countries as quickly as possible." </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>At first the proposals were for police in one country to operate "hot pursuit" of criminal suspects across national borders without asking the permission of other countries. But that provision was dropped at British insistence, though it will still be practised widely on the continent. Ireland also opposed those pursuit plans. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Criticism of the measures from civil liberties groups has been muted. But UK Conservatives criticised the data-sharing pact. "We are sleepwalking into Big Brother Europe while our government stands idly by," said the Tory MEP Syed Kamall. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The shadow home secretary, David Davis, accused the Home Office of incompetence. "How exactly will our European counterparts ensure that the personal details of British citizens remain safe?" </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The biometric database for visas from non-EU applicants is said to be aimed at "visa shopping". An applicant refused a visa by a member state will automatically be disqualified from seeking a visa to any of 13 countries in the border-free travel zone of the EU called the Schengen area. Franco Frattini, the European immigration commissioner, said the new visa system should be in place by early 2009. </em></span></div></div></div><br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/13/ukcrime.humanrights">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/13/ukcrime.humanrights</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-17650372725476293912012-01-06T06:44:00.001-08:002012-01-06T06:45:50.459-08:00Relatives To be Targeted If DNA Draws A Blank<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="firstPar"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Criminals who have left forensic traces at serious crime scenes but cannot be found on the national DNA database are being targeted in an initiative encouraging police to identify offenders through their relatives.</em></span><br />
</div><div class="secondPar"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Some 40,000 "crime scene DNA profiles" on the National DNA database cannot be matched to any of the more than three million individual profiles it contains,</em></span><br />
</div><div class="thirdPar"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>A recent Home Office "e-bulletin" to police advises them to examine DNA profiles on the database that bear similarities to the genetic "fingerprint" found at the crime scene and which may belong to relatives of the unidentified criminal, the assumption being that "criminality tends to run in families.</em></span><br />
</div><div class="fourthPar"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>" One of the most notable uses of the technique came two years ago when a teenager, </em></span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/20/nharm20.xml" jquery1325861089984="51" lang="en.uk"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Craig Harman</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>, who killed a lorry driver when he threw a brick off a motorway bridge, was jailed after being tracked down through a relative's DNA.</em></span></div><br />
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1522307/Relatives-to-be-targeted-if-DNA-draws-a-blank.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1522307/Relatives-to-be-targeted-if-DNA-draws-a-blank.html</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842293748036757351.post-39662207957856257832012-01-06T06:39:00.000-08:002012-01-06T06:47:18.962-08:00(October 4th 2006) Waiting For An Opportunity And The McCanns Fell Like 'Mamma From Heaven' - A Database Should Include ' All'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="firstPar"><a href="javascript: var newWin2 = window.open('/ETHtml/content/promotions/podcast/dna_poup.jhtml','newWin2','height=350,width=260,noscrollbars')" jquery1325860815421="51" lang="en.uk"><strong>Audio: Philip Johnston on the DNA database</strong> </a></div><div class="secondPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Tony Blair called yesterday for the national </em></span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/26/ndna26.xml" jquery1325860815421="52" lang="en.uk"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>DNA database</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> to be expanded to include every citizen.</em></span></div><div class="thirdPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>He said there should be no limit on the development of the database because it was vital for catching serious criminals.</em></span></div><div class="fourthPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><img align="right" alttext="Tony Blair" author="MISSING" caption="Tony Blair claimed during a trip to the Forensic Science Service in London that extended use of DNA had public backing" declared-caption="Tony Blair claimed during a trip to the Forensic Science Service in London that extended use of DNA had public backing" height="240" name="news-graphics-2006-10-24-ndna24.jpg" photographer="" published="true" refid="628746" source="LiveStaging" sourceid="news-graphics-2006-10-24-ndna24.jpg" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00628/news-graphics-2006-_628746a.jpg" width="360" xourceid="news-graphics-2006-10-24-ndna24.jpg" /></img> </em></span></div><div class="fifthPar"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Conservatives accused him of attempting to expand the DNA database by stealth and called for Parliament to vote on whether details of people who were innocent or not charged should be included against their wishes.</em></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Prime Minister said the public backed the extended use of DNA and urged police forces across the country to make use of technological advances to reopen thousands of unresolved "cold cases".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>During a tour of the Forensic Science Service headquarters in London, he dismissed concerns of opposition politicians, saying the public backed the database because it was "helping us track down murderers, rapists".</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The national DNA database has expanded by about a third to 3.6 million profiles since the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which allowed police to take and keep DNA samples from everyone arrested for any imprisonable offence - regardless of whether they were eventually convicted.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Mr Blair voluntarily gave a DNA sample in 1999 when he announced plans to build up the database.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Asked whether there should be any restrictions on the number of people included, Mr Blair said: "The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Mr Blair said he did not believe there was "any problem" with the public providing samples because if they had committed a serious offence they "should be convicted". The database sent a "strong signal" to the criminal community that they could be identified and caught from even the smallest trace at a crime scene.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Downing Street said later that no thought had been given at this stage to requiring everyone to give a DNA sample, although they will have to give scans of their eye and fingerprints for a passport and eventually a national identity card. At this stage, the Prime Minister believed it was a "personal matter" whether people, including other Government ministers, should volunteer their DNA.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Mr Blair visited the laboratories to highlight success in solving about 100 harrowing cases, including rapes and murders dating back as far as 20 years. Advances in the technology mean that old samples from scenes can be re-analysed and matched against profiles on the database in "cold case" reviews.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This enables the reopening of cases not because of new evidence, but due to new forensic techniques. The project has so far resulted in 21 convictions, with several other suspects arrested and awaiting trial. Government sources say the majority of the active criminal population now have their DNA recorded. Police receive more than 3,500 DNA matches a month, double the figure in 1998/99.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 permitted police to retain DNA samples from everyone who was charged. Previously they had to destroy samples and fingerprints from anyone who was found not guilty or had their charge dropped.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Criminal Justice Act 2003 gave police the power to take and keep a DNA sample.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The use of the new powers has proved controversial. Earlier this month, The Daily Telegraph reported that a grandmother who was arrested after a dispute with a neighbour was required to give a DNA sample. The case was later dropped for lack of evidence but her DNA will remain on the database.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The UK has the largest database in the world and is drawing attention from countries throughout Europe keen to learn from its experience.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Damian Green, the Conservative's home affairs spokesman, accused Mr Blair of making "policy on the hoof" without thinking through the implications.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The DNA database could be a vital tool in the fight against crime but the terms of its use must be properly laid down and approved by Parliament.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"There is no provision to deal with people who have a DNA sample taken, are innocent of any crime but still remain on the database," said Mr Green.</em></span><br />
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