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Reluctance To Link Terror Attacks To Religion

For more than a year, the British government has been quietly phasing out the use of the ridiculous term ‘War on Terror’ to describe suicide bombing attacks and police and military action to track down and prosecute those responsible, before and after the events.

Now the war against the ‘War on Terror’ is official :

(England’s chief prosecutor) Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless “death cult.”

The Director of Public Prosecutions said: ‘We resist the language of warfare, and I think the government has moved on this. It no longer uses this sort of language.”

London is not a battlefield, he said.

“The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers,” Macdonald said. “They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way.”

The term “Islamic terrorist” will also no longer be used. Officials believe it is unhelpful because it appears to directly link the religion to terrorist atrocities.

Sir Ian McDonald is also opposed to the push by ministers to extend the 28 day period in which a terror suspect can be held without charge or trial.

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