Car Bomb

A crude car bomb (1) _______________ (to contain) 59kg of explosive (2) _______________ (to leave) outside a police station in Co Fermanagh (3) _________________ (modal verb/cause) considerable damage, police said.

Residents of the village of Rolsea (4) __________________ (modal verb/evacuate) as Army bomb experts dealt with the device. A controlled explosion removed the danger from the device and forensic science experts yesterday (5) _______________ (to check) the scene.

The attempted bombing (6) _______________ (to believe) (7) _______________ (to be) the work of dissident republicans who (8) _______________ (to be) active in the border areas of Fermanagh in the past few years.

(From the ‘Times’, abridged)

D.

Terror Suspects Must Be Moved Says Watchdog

The home secretary is looking for new accommodation for suspected terrorists (1) _______________ (to hold) without charge after the conditions of their detention in high security prison (2) _______________ (to criticize) by an independent review yesterday.

Lord Carlile of Berriew QC said the 13 men currently (3) _______________ (to detain) (4) _________________ (modal verb/keep) in a “separate, secure environment with greater internal freedom of association and activity.” Wartime detainees (5) _______________ (to keep) in “better prison conditions.”

He went on (6) _______________ (to suggest) that the men, who the government (7) _______________ (to believe) (8) ___________ (to be) international terrorists, (9) ____________________ (modal verb/tag) electronically, which (10) _______________ (to mean) they would be placed under house arrest.

All 13 complained that though they (11) _______________ (not to charge) with any offence they (12) _______________ (to treat) in the same way as men (13) _______________ (to convict) of the most serious crimes and, indeed, (14) _______________ (to lock up) alongside such men.

Lord Carlile said: “Some (15) _______________ (to complain) of worse treatment, including the use of solitary confinement, restricted opportunities to contact family and insensitivity …” Lord Calile reviewed the conditions as part of his independent report on the detention provisions in part IV of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. He said the Act (16) _______________ (to allow) the home secretary to detain foreign nationals who (17) ___________ (to suspect) of involvement in international terrorism and who (18) ________________ (to pose) a threat to national security until they (19) ___________________ (modal verb/deport).

In a separate report also published yesterday the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment said one detainee (20) _______________ (to complain) he (21) _______________ (to ill-treat) at Belmarsh. “A person alleged … he (22) _______________ (to restrain) in a painful manner by prison officers at Belmarsh prison after he (23) _______________ (to become) agitated, and that one officer (24) _______________ (to punch) him in the chest,” the report said.

Inspectors reminded ministers and officers that all forms of ill-treatment, including verbal abuse, (25) _______________ (not to be) acceptable.

(From ‘The Guardian’, abridged)

E.