How he helps terror suspects
CRITICISES SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY
In a 2015 interview with the BBC after the Paris terrorist attack, Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘I’m not happy with a shoot-to-kill policy in general. I think that is quite dangerous and can often be counter-productive.’
CALLS FOR AN END TO ‘DRACONIAN’ ANTI-TERROR LAWS
Addressing a Stop The War Coalition conference in 2011, Mr Corbyn boasted about his extraordinary voting record. ‘I’ve been involved in opposing anti-terror legislation ever since I first went into Parliament in 1983,’ he said. He also said terror laws were ‘a greater threat to our security’ than even the wars in Afghanistan or Libya.
CALLS FOR A REVOLT AGAINST TPIMS
Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures are the watered-down Control Orders on terror suspects. Addressing the Stop The War conference, he said: ‘Control Orders are very, very dangerous, because what accompanies them is executive power to over-ride the legal system. These are very, very serious attacks on our liberty.’
CRITICISES SECURITY SERVICES
In March 2011 during a debate on Control Orders, he said: ‘We have a Security Service that is not public and that is unaccountable. We also have charges that are unknown against individuals who do not know what the charges against them are.’
DEFENDS TERROR GROUPS
Mr Corbyn has repeatedly refused to condemn the IRA, has taken tea with IRA bombers and has welcomed agents of the Hamas terror group as ‘friends’. At a Stop The War Coalition event in 2009, he said: ‘The idea that [Hamas] should be labelled as a terrorist organisation by the British Government is really a big, big historical mistake.’
DON’T PROSECUTE RETURNING JIHADIS
He has spoken in defence of fighters returning from Syria and argued that people who express support for Islamic State should not be prosecuted. He has blamed UK foreign policy for the London bombings on July 7, 2005, the death of IS hostage Alan Henning, and the Manchester terror attack.
CLAIMS BIN LADEN’S DEATH IS A TRAGEDY
In 2011, he described the death of Osama Bin Laden as ‘yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy’ because the Al Qaeda leader was not brought to trial.