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  • ’Cash for peerages’ row as Blair honours top donors
    23 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ’Cronyism’ controversy reignited as leaked list of new peers includes Labour’s millionaire friends
    By Marie Woolf
    Tony Blair is to reward a clutch of millionaire Labour Party donors - including the head of the Priory celebrity rehabilitation clinic - with peerages, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.
    In a move that will trigger a fresh row over "cash for honours", Mr Blair is to elevate to the Lords four businessmen who between them have given almost half a million pounds to the (…)

  • Bush to Blair: First Iraq, then Saudi
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    George Bush told the Prime Minister two months before the invasion of Iraq that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea may also be dealt with over weapons of mass destruction, a top secret Downing Street memo shows.
    The US President told Tony Blair, in a secret telephone conversation in January 2003 that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq".
    He implied that the military action against Saddam Hussein was only a first step in the battle against WMD proliferation in a series of countries. (…)

  • ARMY’S TOP ABUSE COP KILLS HIMSELF IN IRAQ
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE Army officer in charge of investigating abuse of civilians by British forces in Iraq has been found dead, it was revealed yesterday.
    Royal Military Police Captain Ken Masters, 40, is believed to have killed himself. His body was found on Saturday evening.
    An army colleague is said to have made the grim discovery in Waterloo Lines camp within the main British military base at Basra airport.
    Ministry of Defence sources said last night it is not believed Capt Masters had left a (…)

  • Cars stolen in US,Suicide bombers ’forced’,US/Brits caught smuggling arms: Who are the terrorists?
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cars stolen in US used in suicide attacks
    The FBI’s counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials.
    The FBI’s deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, Inspector John Lewis, said the investigation did not prove the vehicles were stolen (…)

  • UN Official: US Troops ’Starving’ Iraqi Civilians
    16 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GENEVA - A United Nations human rights investigator on Friday accused U.S. and British forces in Iraq of breaching international law by depriving civilians of food and water in besieged cities as they try to flush out militants.
    Swiss Jean Ziegler, UN special rapporteur of the commission on human rights on the right to food, speaks, with regard to World Food Day on October 16, about the hunger situation in the world at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 14, 2005. (AP (…)

  • Harold Pinter: Torture and misery in name of freedom
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Harold Pinter who yesterday won the Nobel Prize for Literature
    The great poet Wilfred Owen articulated the tragedy, the horror - and indeed the pity - of war in a way no other poet has. Yet we have learnt nothing. Nearly 100 years after his death the world has become more savage, more brutal, more pitiless.
    But the "free world" we are told, as embodied in the United States and Great Britain, is different to the rest of the world since our actions are dictated and sanctioned by a moral (…)

  • Robert Fisk in London
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    On 11 October, the reporter Robert Fisk made one of his rare appearances in London. The bookshop, Bookmarks arranged for Mr Fisk to speak to an audience of about 250 in a church hall close to Tottenham Court Road. The event marked the publication of Mr. Fisk’s new book, The Great War of Civilisation, the Conquest of the Middle East, published by Fourth Estate, London.
    Robert Fisk is an outstanding journalist. His clarity, courage and in-depth knowledge have, throughout his (…)

  • Urgent Stop Charity Mutebwa’s deportation to Uganda
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I stopped eating because I was given a removal letter which was to take me back to Uganda it was on 16 August which was stopped by my solicitor. Today I was given another removal letter to remove me on 18 October.
    "I need you to intervene and help me. I have explained to Immigration my whole story - that I have no home, my family has died and no one to help me in Uganda and that I was tortured and raped.
    "I escaped from government detention and I am not safe if I return to Uganda. (…)

  • The Cannabis Man comes forth
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    They do say that appearances can be deceptive. Perhaps whoever coined the phrase had the foresight to have the Cannabis Man in mind.
    Here is a man who works seven days a week, works out five times a week and has been growing his precious plants for thirteen years whenever time allowed.
    Not once in thirteen years has he sold so much as a leaf. All he has done in that time is learn everything there is to know about the weed; experimenting on himself; examining health benefits; testing (…)

  • "This is not ’streamlining’ the appeal system as the government claims. It is subverting and stackin
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Appeals Clauses of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005
    by bellaciao GB
    Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) is anxious to inform affected agencies and individuals about the changes to immigration appeals in the latest immigration legislation, the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005, which is currently being considered by Parliament.
    The government gave no hint of their intention to make the proposed changes. They have not explained the full (…)