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This is the same country that used a slightly later, post-9/11 terrorism act to freeze the assets of an Icelandic bank that were in the country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsbanki_Freezing_Order_2008

Icelanders replied with some good pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=iceland+terrorism&tbm=isch

Then again this is the country that inspired Nineteen Eighty-Four (Minitrue from Orewell's time at the BBC) and The Prisoner.



If you read the Wikipedia article[0] on the ‘Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001’, you will notice that it is not restricted and applicable to areas other than terrorism – serious economic damage to the UK being one of them. So there is at least some slight hyperbole in calling it a ‘post-9/11 terrorism act’, even though its passage was clearly motivated by 9/11.

As an aside, what exactly is wrong with freezing the assets of a company that does not appear to plan to meet its liabilities?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism,_Crime_and_Secur...


And the entire spy film genre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_film




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