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  • De Menezes family murder charge call
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Relatives of the Brazilian man shot dead by anti-terror police on a London Tube train want them to be charged with murder.
    Officers mistakenly thought Jean Charles de Menezes was a suicide bomber, but recently leaked documents show he did not try to run away from police or vault the ticket barrier before they gunned him down at Stockwell Tube station as initial reports suggested.
    According to documents obtained by ITV News, the Brazilian entered the station at a normal walking pace and (…)

  • Police under pressure over Menezes leak
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Tempest and Simon Jeffery
    Family representatives and campaigners for the Brazilian man shot dead on a London tube train are demanding to know how Scotland Yard allowed misleading information to circulate about his killing.
    In the wake of a leak last night from the independent report, which revealed eyewitnesses seeing Jean Charles de Menezes being held by police in his seat before being shot in the head, attention has now turned to the initial accounts of his death. These (…)

  • Shot Brazilian ’did not jump barrier and run’
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Philip Johnston
    The Brazilian electrician shot dead by police on the London Underground last month was being restrained when he was killed by officers from Scotland Yard’s firearms unit, according to documents leaked last night.
    Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head by two plainclothes policemen who had followed him on to the train at Stockwell station in the mistaken belief that he was a potential suicide bomber.
    Documents and photographs leaked to ITV News (…)

  • British police challenged over shooting of Brazilian man
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Kirsten Aiken
    MARK COLVIN: In Britain a leaked report has cast major new doubts on the credibility of the police in the case of the young Brazilian man who was wrongfully killed on the underground last month.
    The report, obtained by the national commercial TV news service ITN, contradicts the police account of how undercover officers shot and killed, Jean Charles de Menezes.
    It challenges such police claims as that Mr de Menezes ran away and jumped a ticket barrier, and even that he (…)

  • Urgent appeal for solidarity with Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Eric Lee
    Last week, in an extraordinary display of corporate bullying, the company which provides British Airways with its in-flight meals at Heathrow Airport sacked some 800 workers — using a megaphone.
    In response, baggage handlers at Heathrow — members of the same union as the Gate Gourmet workers who had just lost their jobs — walked off the job in solidarity. Within hours, the entire airport was essentially shut down, stranding thousands of passengers and costing millions of (…)

  • Bush and Blair in the Land of Make Believe - Iraq: the Unwinnable War
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    The Duke of Wellington, warning hawkish politicians in Britain against ill-considered military intervention abroad, once said: "Great nations do not have small wars." He meant that supposedly limited conflicts can inflict terrible damage on powerful states. Having seen what a small war in Spain had done to Napoleon, he knew what he was talking about.
    The war in Iraq is now joining the Boer War in 1899 and the Suez crisis in 1956 as ill-considered ventures that have (…)

  • The problem in Britain is not too much multiculturalism but too little
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Racism is the terrorists’ greatest recruitment tool
    by Naomi Klein
    Hussein Osman, one of the men alleged to have participated in London’s failed bombings on July 21, recently told Italian investigators that they prepared for the attacks by watching "films on the war in Iraq", La Repubblica reported. "Especially those where women and children were being killed and exterminated by British and American soldiers ... of widows, mothers and daughters that cry."
    It has become an article of (…)

  • Health lessons for Italians: eat 18 courses but forget the beach umbrella
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mick Hume
    ITALY IS another country, they do things differently there, to paraphrase L. P. Hartley. So you hope that a fortnight in the sun on the Riviera dei Fiori in Liguria will also mean a holiday from the stifling climate of “Don’t eat/drink/do that” back home. Even here, however, the dead hand of the EU-wide health and safety regime now seems to have la dolce vita within its grasp.
    For example, the Vietato Fumare signs are spreading everywhere, since smoking in public places was (…)

  • Blair accused of Cook funeral ’snub’
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair today came under fierce attack from a close friend of Robin Cook for not planning to attend the funeral of the former Foreign Secretary.
    Channel 4 racing pundit John McCririck accused the Prime Minister of snubbing the family and the memory of Mr Cook.
    Mr McCririck, a friend of Mr Cook for 20 years, will be among those speaking at the funeral service, which is expected to take place on Friday at Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral.
    Details have not yet been officially confirmed (…)

  • Why I cannot be part of this divisive war
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is an extract from Robin Cook’s resignation speech to the House of Commons, 17 March 2003. It electrified Parliament and will be remembered as one of the most important addresses in modern Westminster history.
    by Robin Cook
    This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the House from the back benches. I must confess that I had forgotten how much better the view is from here.
    I have chosen to address the House first on why I cannot support a war without international (…)