World-News

by Stephen Zunes, TomPaine.com

The Bush administration's callous Middle East policy finds support on both sides of the aisle.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/15/the_democrats_lebanon_failure.php

Christian Science Monitor
by Ann Zwicker Kerr

08/14/06

America is murdering the values it taught us,' my former fellow classmate from the American University of Beirut (AUB) cried out when I visited her in Amman this spring. Salma's words echoed the pain my family and I had been living with for 22 years, since two unidentified gunmen assassinated my husband on the campus of the American University of Beirut -- pain that is reinforced with each day of bombing in Lebanon and Israel and underscored by the many recent deaths in Qana and elsewhere, as well as the insubstantial cease-fire. 'Oh, how I miss Malcolm,' Salma said to me, referring to my husband. She was implying that he was an American in a position of influence whom she could trust and who could interpret the Muslim world to the West. 'Islam is so distorted and misunderstood -- it makes me feel more Muslim than I ever felt before'...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0814/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

UK: Guardian [UK]

08/14/06

Police are pressing ministers for radical new powers to dispense instant justice, including the immediate exclusion of 'yobs' from town centres at night, and bans on street gang members associating with each other, the Guardian has learned. Senior officers say the powers would be the 'modern equivalent of a clip round the ear from the local bobby' and would ensure the introduction of neighbourhood policing across England and Wales has 'bite' and meets public expectations. ... But the proposals have alarmed human rights campaigners. Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty said: 'This looks like instant police justice and a return to the infamous sus laws. Surely the many officers who are proud of our consent-based policing tradition will resent the idea of being legislator, judge and jury on the cheap?' Alan Gordon, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said he was not sure that he was in favour of the police imposing any form of sentence: 'The enforcement of the law and then a form of punishment should be two separate processes'...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1844813,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4954/


Informant: jensenmk

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