Tag: terrorism

ON the third day of the Climate Change camp, on the northern perimeter of Heathrow Airport, 1800 police were on duty, searching, monitoring and...

THE strengthening of regional treaties is a key factor to prevent the promotion of a unipolar system of domination by the US, and would...

A MEMORANDUM of Understanding was signed by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Iraqi puppet Prime Minister Nuri...

YESTERDAY’S De Menezes family press conference gave its view of the Stockwell 2 document drawn up by the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission). ...

THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...

Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced his ‘four options’ for extending the period that police can hold ‘terror suspects’ without charging them. He is ‘considering’...

THE Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign has vowed to continue fighting until they get justice over the police killing of the Brazilian man...

THE official spokesperson of the Fatah-affiliated Martyr Abu Ammar Brigades, Abu Muhammad, has affirmed the brigades’ loyalty to political leaders and Fatah decisions, but...

Al-QAEDA founder Osama bin Laden is alive and sheltering in ‘lawless parts of Pakistan’ on the border with Afghanistan, according to US Director of...

Patient safety and the future career prospects of many thousands of junior doctors could be further jeopardised within the next two weeks, warned the...

THE Israeli government is permitting Nayif Hawatimah and Faruq al-Kaddoumi to attend the PLO Central Committee’s meeting in Ramallah. The approval constitutes an acceptance...

AT the same time as leading members of the Bush administration are seeking to shut down the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp after experiencing...

THE failed terror attacks on Park Lane and Glasgow Airport far from being a huge blow against British imperialism will in fact be welcomed...

PREMIER to be, Brown, yesterday told the world, five days before the outgoing Home Secretary Reid is to introduce his counter terrorism measures...

In its Annual Report 2007, covering events of 2006, Amnesty International (AI) is scathing about the UK. It says: ‘The government continued to erode fundamental...

THE House of Representatives in the United States voted by 218 votes to 208 on Wednesday for a Bill to end the US occupation...

HOME Secretary Reid yesterday spoke about the importance of liberty – a new subject for a Home Secretary who preaches the ‘war against terror’,...

FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...

BLAIR in his Callaghan Memorial lecture in Cardiff came out as an admirer of the right wing Labour premier, who he says ‘had neither...

US President George W Bush on Tuesday warned that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria sent ‘mixed signals’ that undermined US-led efforts...

‘My nightmare is finally at an end,’ said British resident Bisher al-Rawi yesterday, just back in the UK after being held in Guantanamo Bay...

YESTERDAY, Prime Minister Blair made a written statement to the House of Commons announcing that the Home Office is to be split in two. There...

A tense Chancellor Brown yesterday announced a £36bn increase in the sale of public assets (including Student Loans) and a two per cent Corporation...

THE Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) has addressed an open message to the Iraqi people on the fourth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq,...

Thousands have been displaced in a fresh Sri Lankan offensive, reported the Tamilnet website on Thursday. The head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s...

SRI LANKA is undergoing a turbulent period, with the introduction of an executive presidential system, along with an open economic policy (Laissez Faire) exposing...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday said UK forces had to be ready for action in Sudan and Somalia as part of a policy of foreign...

ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has spoken of the need for a ‘new world order’. He is not embarrassed that this is what President Clinton and...

ON THE day marking the fifth anniversary of the first detainees being transported to the US concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay, on the tip...

After President Bush has informed the world that 20,000 more US troops are to be sent to Iraq, and his Secretary of State, Rice...

WITH Blair’s political reputation destroyed by the Iraq war, and the massive resistance to his attack on the Welfare State, and with the media...

AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...

Iran’s oil minister has called for today’s meeting of the OPEC oil cartel to cut production in order to raise prices above 60 dollars...

A PAKISTANI judge yesterday ruled that there was no evidence to try Rashid Rauf on terrorist charges, or that he was a member...

In his tenth Pre Budget Report yesterday Chancellor Brown spoke about the threat to British capitalism from India and China. He said: ‘Once...

BROWN’S proud boast yesterday in his pre-budget speech was that ‘In no other decade has Britain’s personal wealth – up 60 per cent –...

THE Iraqi Ba’ath Party has issued a communique warning that the execution of Saddam Hussein is a red line that must not be crossed. The...

JUST days after the mid-term elections dealt a decisive blow to his administration, Bush with the support of the Democrats has seen to it...

Donald Rumsfeld, who was forced to resign as US defence secretary last Wednesday, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo...

Last Thursday, the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, launched a public debate on ‘the implications of living in a surveillance society’. The Information Commissioner’s Office...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last Friday evening condemned the Israeli Army for firing into a crowd and killing two Palestinian women during a...

‘BLOOD on your hands!’, ‘Shame on you!’ shouted demonstrators opposite parliament on Tuesday night, as MPs left the House of Commons after a debate...

TREVOR Phillips yesterday warned that Britain was becoming polarised and that the controversy over women wearing veils would lead to worse riots than were...

FOLLOWING the remarks of Dannatt, the armed forces chief of staff, about the country having lost its ‘moral compass’ since the ‘anchor of Christian...