Customs 'no bar to terrorists'.

Byline: By BOB ROBERTS

BRITAIN is offering an open door to terrorists, the Government's own watchdog warned yesterday.

Customs staff are so thinly spread at ports and airports they are "no discouragement" to fanatics and bombers.

And private jets - which can be hired for a few thousand pounds - can easily be flown into high-profile targets, Lord Carlile said in his annual report on our terror laws.

He urged police to build close links with flying clubs and owners of small airfields to maintain a "vigilant watch for the unusual and unexpected".

Lord Carlile also criticised police for wrongly using anti-terror powers to stop innocent people without reasonable suspicion Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard in United States law that a person has been, is, or is about to be, engaged in criminal activity based on specific and articulable facts and inferences. .

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dismissed the report, saying customs officers were deployed "according to according to
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Publication:	The Mirror (London, England)
Date:	Jun 20, 2006
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