We in the west have let into our society all these ethnic peoples with the hope that they intergrate, but in fact they are allowed to carry on as if they were still in there own country of origine.If these people want to live in our society then there should be a probationary period to prove that this is the country they want to support in every way, not to try and change the west to there way of thinking.
(Public Safety is paramount) Strickter controls for those that want to come to the UK, US, and Canada.

Paul Reynolds, Burlington ont, Canada

Isn’t this simply going to happen over and over again until there is a realisation that terrorists cannot be treated as normal criminals? By their very nature, they are unofficial combatants fighting a global war with the aim of inflicting mass causalities. Even the worse murderers do not have the ambition to inflict this scale of damage. We would never have won the 2nd world war, or indeed any war, if we observed every letter of the law dealing with troops who were, at least, official soldiers.

The US, unlike Britain, seems to understand that they are actually at war. No matter what people think of unusual rendition or Guantanamo Bay it is necessary to deal with the most dangerous people on earth and will be here to stay as long as there is a war. The Americans put national security and public safety before human rights considerations and are right to do so. It is now time that Britain did the same.

A dramatic paradigm shift is needed and absolutely necessary.

Jason Mead, Bristol,

"Public safety is the priority of the governenment and the police" Thats a laugh! Since when?

Charley Farley, Kettering, england

Get rid of the "HumanRights Bill" EASY

CH, spennymoor,

Mr Reid, the man who spews forth more hot air than a bagpipe, should stop trying to deflect the blame on this matter. Either people placed on control orders are guilty of terrorist offences or not. Prove their guilt in court, Mr Reid, or let them go. It's as simple as that!

Dave, Newcastle,

To Andy Iddon, London, UK

They were not foreigners. They are Britsh subjects, just like our army who illegally kill iraqis and afghans and like other British citizens that go overseas to kill others like British Jewish students who join the Israeli army to kill palestinians. They are all british!!

Max, London, UK

Human Rights Again When Individuals Are Proven To Be A Danger To Public Human Right Go Down The Pan,In Favour Of Protecting The Public The Dogooders Need A Kick Up The Back Side And Dismantled.
There Are Hidden Dangers,I.E This Nefarious Government
And Its Left Wing Click Have Endangered This Country And People Will Start Looking Right Wing.

British Sucker, surbiton, england

...perhaps the home secretary should have checked they'd paid their council tax, they could have joined the old ladies in the nick!!

tracey, manchester, uk

Andy,

John Reid's first sentence says that these three men are British citizens, so there's no question of their having been deported. In fact, the restrictions were meant to STOP them going abroad!

And while Dr Reid might complain about control orders being "far from 100% effective", if the Government had had its way, it wouldn't have been able to apply even these controls to these 3 men - control orders were only brought in because the House of Lords said the legislation to allow the detention of foreigners on suspicion was unjustified, in part because British citizens couldn't be detained on the same suspicion, and the Government didn't even suggest changing the law to allow that!

Rob, Swindon, UK

In response to Tracy from Manachester: Mr. Reid said in the first line of his statement that the police were attempting to locate "three British citizens". Tracy then suggests the Human Rights Act is to blame, and that "these foreigners would have been deported". Obviously thats wrong. Lets just try to understand the issues before we make less than cautious statements. The Human Rights Act has nothing to do with this. If it can be said to, the issue is should we have continued with internment which was ruled incompatible with the Human Rights Act, but deporting British Citizens is not at issue and never was.

Timothy Welch, Sarajevo, Bosnia

Since the 'weapons of mass distruction' fiasco it is diffult to trust the security services. Also the man who was responsible fopr the 'dogy dossier' was propmoted by Tony Blair, so there is no change is an organisation which now lacks any credibility.
This problem is entirely of Tony Blaire's making.

David. Winkworth, Farnborough, Hampshire

Read the end of the article carefully, it appears that this is not because the legislation is not strong enough, if they wanted the Home Office could have upgraded their control orders. Reid is evidently and disgracefully trying to pass the buck for this oversight onto "those who complain" and the shenenigans of party politics. This is PR-political trickery writ large, and in the shadow of what happened to Charles Clarke. I hope this newspaper and other media have the zest to spot this and give the home office a run for it's money on this one, or will journalism fail again on team Blair?

Jessie Smith, London,

.....perhaps the home secretary should have checked that they'd paid their council tax.......they could have joined the old ladies in nick!!

tracey, manchester, uk

So to get to the root of this - It's all down to the Human Rights Act, again totally screwing up our laws - these foreigners would have been deported were it not for that absurd piece of legislation and it's pervasive effect on our age old, previously functioning legislation

Andy Iddon, London, UK

This is a typical story of Met Blundering..they outsourced the monitoring of these folks to 'Dad's Army' and it a joke. The head of the Met should be removed from his position..incompetence at the highest level. Lord Carlile's comments are atypical of a judge whose head is so far stuck in the sand that he too should be removed. He probably lives a cushy lifestyle.

Scorpion, London, UK