LONDON, 7 August 2005 — Three more people were yesterday charged with failing to disclose information about the failed London suicide bombings on 21 July and were remanded in custody till Aug. 11.

At the same time, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s declaration of war against extremists and their supporters on Friday has precipitated a fierce debate in the UK on the proposed sweeping new powers to deport foreign extremists, ban certain organizations, and making it an offense to “condone or glorify violence and extremism”, amid its benign policy of multiculturalism.

Shadi Sami Abdel Gadir, 22, and Omar Nagmeloin Almagboul, 20, both from Brighton, and Mohamed Kabashi, 23, of no fixed address, appeared before Bow Street Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

The court heard that the men are accused of having information relating to Osman Hussain (also known as Mahdi Issac), one of the five failed 21/7 suspected suicide bombers, who fled to Italy and is currently awaiting an extradition under the new European Arrest Warrant.

The men were detained with three other men and a woman in police raids on two Brighton addresses on July 31. The other four have since been released without charge.

A total of six people have now been charged with failing to disclose information to police in the wake of the July 21 attempted bombings of three Tube trains and a bus.

On Friday two sisters from Stockwell in south London, Yeshiemebet Girma, 29, a mother of three and the common law wife of suspect Osman Hussain, and Mulumebet Girma, 21, appeared at Bow Street Magistrates Court and were remanded in custody till next Thursday.

Ismael Abdurahman, 23, of Kennington similarly was remanded in custody last Thursday after appeared before Bow Street magistrates on similar charges — the first of the six to be charged in connection with the 21/7 botched attacks.

Scotland Yard have arrested four of the five prime suspects in the 21/7 attacks — Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed, Fethi Mohammed and Yasin Hassan Omar.

Meanwhile Prime Minister Tony Blair’s hard-line and uncompromising stance against extremists and those who abuse foreigners who abuse British hospitality, has received mixed reaction from various power centers in the British establishment.

Sir Ian Blair, Metropolitan Police Chief Commissioner yesterday endorsed the prime minister’s new anti-terror laws and initiatives.

There is a speculation that Scotland Yard, working with the Home Office and British Intelligence, have drawn a target list of people to be deported or to be put under control orders, which is tantamount to house arrest.

A host of senior Labour government Cabinet ministers were yesterday doing the media rounds supporting the prime minister.

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Faulkner, the highest government legal officer, yesterday called for a cross-party consensus and unity in adopting the anti-terror measures.

The government is wary for its initiatives to be seen as a choice between human rights protection and national security.

Prime Minister Blair yesterday confirmed that after the successful negotiations with Jordan to send extremists back there without fear of being tortured or killed, the government was talking to about ten other countries including Lebanon and Algeria about similar assurances.

Blair yesterday stressed that he was determined to push through the new anti-terror powers even if it meant amending the Human Rights Act.

“This is the beginning. There will be a lot of battles in the month ahead on this. Lets be quite clear because the way that the law has been interpreted over a long period of time. And I am prepared for those battles in the months ahead. I am also completely determined to make sure that this happens,” he said.

The possible amendment of the Human Rights Act is probably the most controversial of his proposals. Last December the Law Lords successfully challenged the government’s ‘Detention Without Trial’ legislation.

Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, yesterday reiterated his warning that the cross-party consensus on terror legislation drawn up after the 7 July bombings, “is under serious strain because of the proposals outlined today by the prime minister.”

Shami Chakrabati of the human rights group, Liberty, said that “one the most troubling things about the prime minister today is that he was almost goading our higher courts. He was almost saying that ‘I am going to deport people to face torture. Lets see if the courts are going to have a go in the current climate’.”

Blair assured Britain’s Muslim communities “that they have nothing to fear. This is not in any way whatever aimed at the decent law-abiding Muslim community of Britain. We know that this fringe of extremism does not truly represent Islam, which is a peaceful and decent religion. We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists,” he explained.