The three-month extension of emergency laws would grant the French government powers to conduct stops and searches, ban large gatherings in public places, and put suspected extremists under house arrest.
Stop-and-search ban considered Jump to media player The Met Police commissioner has said he considered banning the stop-and-search tactic, to help improve community relations.
Security forces will be able to implement stricter border controls, house arrests, warrantless house searches, ban protests and public gatherings, and control of media and school trips.
The danger is that some of the measures -- such as allowing warrantless searches, banning groups considered dangerous, and prohibiting certain demonstrations -- are measures which might make eminent sense in the immediate aftermath of the Paris attacks.
Google is not blocked entirely; instead, users who search for banned keywords are blocked from Google for 90 seconds, though other websites remain available.
Carrying on an endless search for banned arms while prolonging the sanctions against Iraq is an "unprecedented injustice to the Iraqi people," he said.
20 January: Iraq promises UN weapons experts more help and says it will form its own teams of inspectors to search for banned weapons after two days of talks with chief UN arms inspectors.
In a lengthy Oct. 6 report summarizing a fruitless search for banned weapons in Iraq, the inspectors known as the Iraq Survey Group disclosed that widespread looting occurred at Muthanna after the fall of the Iraqi capital in April 2003.
· January 20: Iraq promises UN weapons experts more help and says it will form its own teams of inspectors to search for banned weapons after two days of talks with chief UN arms inspectors.
This view is at odds with that of the British government and the Bush administration, which have called for an immediate end to sanctions against Iraq and have indicated that the initial search for banned weapons will be conducted by their military forces.
Is the Bush administration, many wonder, likely to be more right about Iran than it was about Iraq? "There is an eerie similarity to the events preceding the Iraq war," commented David Kay, who led the search for banned weapons of mass destruction in postwar Iraq, in a Washington Post article.
