09.10.07 - 03:28pm
One may think it strange that a greater insight into the nature and effects of the War on Terror is available from one paragraph contained in a proclamation by a terrorist leader apparently hiding in a cave in Pakistan than from the daily speeches of the so-called Leader of the Free World.
08.12.07 - 05:23pm
Philadelphia Daily News columnist, Stu Bykofsky, wants another 9/11 style terrorist attack on the United States. Yes, you read that right. Bykofsky wants thousands of Americans to die in a new terrorist atrocity; you see he thinks another major terrorist strike on the US is just about the only thing that can “save America” and it seems the Daily News is more than happy to give publicity to his lunatic ravings.
08.08.07 - 08:53am
Among those who could be released is Jamil el Banna who, prior to being spirited away into legal limbo by the US authorities, lived close to my own home in northwest London and whose case has been highlighted in both the local and national media. The father of five, a Palestinian of Jordanian nationality who had been granted refugee status in the UK, was apprehended in bizarre circumstances in the Gambia in 2002 while on a business trip, apparently with either the complicity or at least knowledge of the British secret service.
07.31.07 - 05:48pm
Right wing extremist Robert Cottage, 49, a former British National Party election candidate, was jailed for two and a half years for stockpiling explosive chemicals and ball bearings at his home in Colne, Lancashire. He had previously been acquitted of charges of conspiracy to cause explosions. Sentencing Cottage, the judge, Mrs Justice Swift, accepted Cottage’s claim that he was manufacturing explosives for defensive purposes, fearing a civil war caused by mass immigration. Having already spent a year behind bars before and during the trial, Cottage is likely to be free within six months. Now, this verdict comes just two weeks after three men were imprisoned for six years and one other for four years after being found guilty of seeking to “foment hatred and encourage killing” after a protest outside the Danish embassy in London: that is, they said something.
07.30.07 - 07:51am
As every single justification offered by the United States for this atrocity has been demonstrated to be utterly without foundation, including by a report by the US government’s own State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research, no doubt Judge Doumar also finds it depressing that his own nation would “execute its power for purposes which most countries would find intolerable and loathsome” and would support compensation for the thousands of Sudanese families who lost relatives. Unfortunately he seems to have forgotten to mention it in his ruling and CBS does not seem to think it relevant either.
07.27.07 - 08:49am
The Australian case, various British detention cases over the last few years and, of course, Guantanamo Bay, illustrate the dangers of the state having the power to lock people up without legal recourse. Once the state has you in its sights all kinds of factors come into play, totalitarian paranoia and the sheer bloody-minded refusal to admit a mistake among them. Civil liberties groups and, hopefully, a cross-party alliance of MPs, have a difficult fight on their hands to stop the British Government’s creeping power grab once again.
07.24.07 - 09:29am
It wasn’t hard to understand what was going on. The reporter was expressing incredulity at Dhiren Barot’s wife’s statement. The implication was that there were grounds for believing that somebody may deserve to be attacked by a prison inmate, have boiling oil splashed over him such that he was left horrifically burned, lost his hair in the attack and no doubt left scarred for life.
