A month ago, the British government announced a plan to keep terrorist suspects indefinitely under house arrest (1) the home secretary’s say-so, It has been attacked from all sides ever since. This week the government backtracked. Under the Prevention of Terrorism bill, (2) to Parliament this week, house arrest would (3) a potential (4) in the government’s ever-expanding anti-terrorist arsenal, but the government would first have to (5) of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteeing a right to liberty. Parliament would have to vote on that.
The government could do this (6) the terrorist threat to Britain, already described by the government as " (7) ", got even worse. Even then, the powers would remain (8) by political and judicial safeguards. Before the home secretary could make a house-arrest order, he would have to be satisfied on the (9) of probabilities--no long
A. way
B. tool
C. arms
D. manner
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