The Guardian reports that the British government is going to release up to 30 "high-level" terrorists after senior judges declared that long sentences could encourage extremism. Among those being released are individuals involved in a thwarted suicide bombing in 2005 and two who advocated murder and terrorism after a cartoon mocking Prophet Mohammed was published in Denmark.

"Care has to be taken to ensure that the sentence was not disproportionate to the facts of the particular offences. If sentences were imposed which were more severe than the circumstances of the particular case warranted, that would be likely to inflame rather than deter extremism," stated a ruling in July 2008 by three senior British judges, including the lord chief justice of the time.

The ruling reduced the sentence of Abdul Rahman, an Al-Qaeda operative who was recruiting Muslims to fight against Western forces in Afghanistan by six months.

The report also discusses the leniency the British court system has given convicted terrorists.

"An analysis of appeal court cases shows that of the 26 terrorism cases it has heard, 25 have led to men with terrorism convictions having their sentences reduced," the Guardian report stated.