In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor El­ton Prescott said yes­ter­day there was no need for a rushed de­bate to se­cure pas­sage of an­ti-ter­ror­ism leg­is­la­tion in T&T.Con­tribut­ing to yes­ter­day's Sen­ate de­bate on the An­ti-Ter­ror­ism (Amend­ment) Bill, Prescott said as far as he knew no­body was about to bomb T&T this week­end.He sug­gest­ed pas­sage of the leg­is­la­tion be achieved at much more leisure­ly fash­ion."No­body isn't com­ing to blow up Trinidad this week­end, I think," he added.He said the bill sought to con­tin­ue along the trend of re­mov­ing more civ­il lib­er­ties from the pop­u­la­tion.

He agreed with Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi that the bill re­quired a spe­cial three-fifths ma­jor­i­ty vote for pas­sage.Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son said sup­port for the leg­is­la­tion was as­sured.She ex­pressed con­cerns about what was be­ing put in place in T&T to mon­i­tor T&T ter­ror­ists who were be­ing de­port­ed af­ter serv­ing sen­tences abroad.She quot­ed a pub­li­ca­tion in a Cana­di­an news­pa­per in 2006. She said the ar­ti­cle named the Trinidad ter­ror­ists, who were linked to a Pak­istani-based ter­ror­ist group, as Bar­ry Adams, alias Ty­ronne Cole, and Waleem Mo­hammed, alias Robert John­son.

She stressed the need for some sys­tem to be im­ple­ment­ed to prop­er­ly mon­i­tor all T&T ter­ror­ists and crim­i­nals who were con­tin­u­ous­ly be­ing de­port­ed by for­eign Gov­ern­ments.Ear­li­er Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor David Ab­du­lah quot­ed news­pa­per re­ports which said he was be­ing mon­i­tored by a po­lice agency in 2009.He said Labour Min­is­ter Er­rol McLeod al­so was be­ing spied up­on by the se­cu­ri­ty agency, called Re­gion­al In­for­ma­tion Fu­sion Cen­tre, a sub-agency of Cari­com's IM­PACS.