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LONDON - The British anti-terrorism control orders system is in crisis and a nationwide manhunt under way after three more terrorist suspects went on the run.
Six of the 17 people supposed to be monitored round the clock have now vanished. John Reid, the Home Secretary, was to issue a written statement to Parliament today on the latest disappearances, which leave a major question mark over the future of the controversial scheme.
Scotland Yard was alerted after Lamine Adam, 26, and Ibrahim Adam, 20, failed to contact a monitoring company on Tuesday. A third man, Cerie Bullivant, a 24-year-old associate of the Adam brothers, has been missing since Wednesday.
Lamine and Ibrahim Adam are the brothers of Anthony Garcia, 25, who was jailed last month for his part in the plot to stage a series of deadly fertiliser bomb attacks.
The men were under control orders, which can impose a kind of house arrest or restrict their movements. Last year, Reid disclosed that two men had vanished and in January he announced that a third had absconded.
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