European Nations Plan New Anti-Terror Efforts

New measures could include blocking Web sites, iris-scanning jet passengers and training Muslim preachers to fight radicalism.

Ministers from Finland, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia and France met in London on Tuesday with British home secretary John Reid to map out new anti-terrorism measures. Afterward, in a press conference, members of the meeting laid out proposals that signaled a shift for Europe, which in the past has been loathe to limit individual freedoms or try to impose one set of values on all citizens.
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almost a classic populist bigotry...