World-News

Independent [UK}

02/02/07

John Reid, the Home Secretary, has been warned that Britain's safety could be put at risk if he succeeds in an attempt to lengthen the period that terrorist suspects can be held without charge. He told the Cabinet yesterday that he wanted to increase the 28-day maximum detention period available to detectives investigating alleged terrorist plots. Mr Reid was accused of trying to make political capital from the massive operation by West Midlands Police. But the Home Office dismissed suggestions that he was taking advantage of the headlines from the Birmingham raids to press for the extension...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2208274.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/uk/features/article_1254058.php/Blair%60s


Informant: Alan Dicey

--------

Blair says bribery scandal won't drive him out

San Francisco Chronicle

02/02/07

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, questioned twice in an investigation into whether political honors such as knighthoods were traded for cash, insisted Friday he would not let the inquiry force him from office. Blair has said he will step down by September, but the allegations have fueled opposition calls for him to go now, and one of his Cabinet ministers said the affair was 'eroding trust.' Blair told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that he would not step down to put an end to the controversy...

http://tinyurl.com/ys888r


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Blair's Watergate?

Tim Luckhurst writes: "Last Friday, for the second time in three months, [Tony] Blair was interrogated at 10 Downing Street by police investigating a scandal that is fast growing to resemble Watergate. The controversy began last March when healthcare entrepreneur Chai Patel was denied a seat in Britain's unelected upper house of Parliament, the House of Lords."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020307G.shtml