Anti-terror raid and trust in Muslim community

The daily comments on last Friday's [June 2] anti-terror raid on a house in East London. The operation, in which a young Muslim suspect was shot in the shoulder, has failed to turn up evidence of a suspected chemical weapon. "The danger is that the Muslim community, still reeling from Iraq, could be further alienated if tactics deployed are felt to be arbitrary or disproportionate. This would pose security risks: intelligence must come from within that community and will be harder to come by if suspicion of the authorities grows. ... Information about terror is inherently hard to come by and, reacting appropriately to outrages designed to subvert society is hardly going to be easy. This complexity - as well as the need to win trust - makes it all the more urgent to ensure that the inevitably difficult decisions on terror are informed by the most thorough and open understanding possible."

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