If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The News of the World today has a snapshot from a video showing British troops abusing some Iraqi boys, supposedly shot in Iraq in 2004.
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With all there is for the cave-dwellers to be angry about, Abu Hamza al-Masri, the hook-handed, wacko-head that can’t wipe his own ass has directed his poor followers at another dangerous infidel:

By Duncan Gardham - Abu Hamza, the Muslim cleric, told his followers that John Travolta’s dancing posed a danger to their daughters, a court [...]

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Background:
The UK government has been quick to deny that they practice, or tolerate the practice of Torture. So it is perhaps not suprising that they are determined that you should not see the following documents:
http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/telegrams.pdf
http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/npaper.jpg
BlairWatch is asking bloggers to publish the memos from Craig Murray, Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, detailing how the Uzbek Secret [...]

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Tonight is the last BBC World Have Your Say programme for the year. Debora and I will be on air later at the show. I we’ll be talking about blogging in the Middle East and the most memorable moments in 2005.
This will be my second interview with Have Your Say team in less than a [...]

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This is a nifty flash presentation of Reuters’ 40 pictures of the year 2005.
My selection from these reflects the misery life that surrounds us in this part of the world. So here they are:

Each of these reminds us (although we never forget) of the endless story of, tragedy, corruption, greed, unjust, was, terrorism, occupation, …etc.
What [...]

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Well, now I’m officially on my way to London to attend Global Voices 2nd annual meeting. So far, only one bumper, flight delay. I’m traveling on Gulf Air, the flight was suppose to take off at 1:00 pm (Bahrain local time +3 GMT), but they never fail to surprise you with delays, it is now [...]

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Finally, Global Voices Online, 2nd Annual Meeting is knocking the doors. The meeting will take place in London this weekend December 10, 2005, and I’m looking forward to attend it.
As some of you already know, I’m working with GVO as Middle East/N. Africa Editor, for the last few months. During which, I made so many [...]

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As the U.S. and U.K. turn into police states I am continually appalled by items like this!
BBC governors yesterday upheld a complaint against a reporter who said she was tearful following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat. The BBC’s head of editorial complaints initially rejected complaints against Barbara Plett.

A listener then appealed that decision [...]

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Al-Jazeera Managing Director, Waddah Khanfar, is on the way to London this weekend to find answers. Mr. Blair, will you grant Al-Jazeera Staff request for an urgent meeting? [Hat tip: Mohammed]

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Well, I guess that settles that.
“We do not torture,” said President Bush on Monday.
Never mind all those torture pictures from Abu Ghraib.
Never mind all those torture stories from Guant�namo Bay.
Never mind the 2002 Justice Department memo that sought to justify torture.
Never mind reports of U.S. officials sending detainees to other countries for torture.
Never mind Dick [...]

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A woman in Britain is asking for a paternity test to determine whether her first daughter was fathered by the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Friends of Janan Harb say that she had demanded a DNA sample from the Saudi Royal Family to find out if her daughter, Rania Boueiz, 30, a marketing executive [...]

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Tony Blair has denounced the BBC’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina as ‘full of hatred of America’ and ‘gloating’ at the country’s plight, it was reported yesterday.
Lucky Bush! He has someone to support him when it comes to BBC bias. Bad luck to Palestinians whom news has been always depressed on BBC and the Zionist media.

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How about Islamophobia in UK? I was not surprised to read this comment, which illustrate the condition of Muslims / non-Europeans in UK.
However, apart from the sad story of Jessica & Hossein, Heather & Shah, Jenifer & Ali and many more, I was wondering if British people are still free to marry whom they love.
The [...]

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Matthew Parris writes: I name the four powers who are behind the al-Qaeda conspiracy
AT TIMES of national emergency, the habit of the news media to drop a story or a lead in mid-air when it seems to be going nowhere unsettles the public. The media betray a sort of sheepish wish to �move on� from [...]

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Oh No not again…
Sky News: INCIDENTS REPORTED NEAR TUBE STATIONS
A series of incidents have been reported near Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd’s Bush stations on the London Underground.
The station have been evacuated. Smoke was seen coming from a train.
A man on the train told Sky News he spoke to an Italian man who witnessed an [...]

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A Muslim man has been beaten to death outside a corner shop by a gang of youths who shouted anti-Islamic abuse at him. Kamal Raza Butt, 48, from Pakistan, was visiting Britain to see friends and family. On Sunday afternoon he went to a shop in Nottingham to buy cigarettes and was first called “Taliban” [...]

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BBC report: The Muslim News has reported three further attacks on mosques, one in east London and two in Bristol, and the Muslim Council of Britain has reported several attacks on mosques in north west London.

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Leaked No 10 Dossier Reveals Al-Qaeda’s British Recruits. Excerpt:
AL-QAEDA is secretly recruiting affluent, middle-class Muslims in British universities and colleges to carry out terrorist attacks in this country, leaked Whitehall documents reveal.
A network of ‘extremist recruiters’ is circulating on campuses targeting people with ‘technical and professional qualifications’, particularly engineering and IT degrees.
Yesterday it emerged that [...]

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“British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday’s explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said.“

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BBC News correspondents are on the ground with the latest details and covering events as they unfold.

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