A tribunal has ruled a second counter-terrorism detainee, known only as “OO”, should be released.
The wheelchair-using detainee is the second Jordanian national to have won a bail application after the courts said deportation could lead to torture. for more click here
The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested, according to media reports quoting the country’s defence ministry. for more click here
Foreign workers who work airside at UK airports do not have to undergo full mandatory criminal records checks, the BBC’s Newsnight has discovered.
Since 2003, staff have been checked against UK criminal records, but offences abroad are not covered. for more click here
Israel is Western civilization’s canary in the coal mine. If Israel cannot survive, perhaps Western civilization — pluralistic, democratic, individualistic, secular, free-trading and devoted to the rule of law — will be unable to last, either. for more click here
It is a vast expanse of desert where conditions are so inhospitable that almost no one lives there. But for al-Qaeda – on the run in Iraq and under attack in Pakistan and Afghanistan – this stretch of the Algerian Sahara has proved fertile ground in its quest to open a new front on Europe’s southern doorstep. for more click here
On a bare patch of ground outside the entrance to Sadr general hospital, 15 women clad from head to foot in black squatted in a sandstorm, wailing and waiting for their dead.
Lightning flashed, thunder rolled and the women’s robes were spattered with mud falling from a sky filled with rain and sand, but they did not notice. for more click here
The only terrorist to escape alive when the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London 28 years ago is on the point of being freed to build a new life in Britain.
Iranian diplomats say they have been told a parole hearing will be held within weeks. They expect Fowzi Badavi Nejad to be freed soon afterwards and granted asylum. for more click here
It seems as though every other day we hear there is another “ceasefire” in the Middle East. This is chiefly because there is so much violent Islamofascist aggression throughout the Middle East but it is also because of something more. Just as there is no exact translation between the Arabic and English languages, we in the West would be wise to realize that this “inexactness” exists as a constant in the relationship between the cultures of Islam and Western Civilization. This convolution of conceptual understanding is aptly illustrated where the subject of military ceasefires is concerned. for more click here
A national survey just published shows that terrorism and war are the two international issues that Dutch people are most concerned about, followed by the environment and health.
The survey was carried out by the National Committee for the Dutch Remembrance and Liberation Days (4 and 5 May in the Netherlands), whose mandate includes increasing the topical relevance of these national events by linking them to present-day social discussions on freedom, solidarity and tolerance. for more click here
According to Alex Alexiev not demographic processes in social and history aspect are grounds for embarrassment but the fact that Mohammedans in Europe are not integrated in the society. for more click here