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POLICE and prosecutors are facing allegations that they misled a judge and grossly exaggerated evidence against the only man to be detained in Britain over September 11.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2395400,00.html


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Cato Institute
by Marian L. Tupy

10/08/06

Tony Blair may be entering the last year of his premiership, but his zeal for social engineering remains undiminished. The latest policy proposal from Britain's Labor prime minister aims to deal with poverty among the people at the bottom of Britain's economic ladder. To help the indigent, Mr. Blair wants to move beyond cash handouts and increase the government's role in rearing their children. An increased state role in children's lives may seem like a strange culmination of Blairist legislative agenda, but the nanny-state has been at the heart of Blairism since the beginning...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6717


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The police and other official bodies could escape prosecution for the death of people in police custody, army barracks or prison or local authority care, if exemptions to a new Bill are agreed this week.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1819640.ece


From Information Clearing House

Incitement to hatred
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1889674,00.html


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Figures released by the Nato occupation force say the attacks are part of an intensified Taliban "insurgency" that has brought the worst violence since 2001.

http://www.itv.com/news/world_cd213afb54fa133e5d434bdd2740d667.html


From Information Clearing House

Hostilities may be over, but over one million unexploded cluster bombs continue to threaten Lebanese lives.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/815/re8.htm


From Information Clearing House

By Dick Mazess

An October attack would rally the US public around the currently unpopular Republican Congress and undercut the hapless Democratic Party whose virtually only appeal is "anti-Bush". It would also undermine the attempt of Iran to establish its oil bourse, a move that would bring Iran an additional $10 billion in revenues, and that some think would help undermine the US dollar as the world reserve currency.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15229.htm

http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/10/afghanistan-nato-is-now-us-ato.html


Informant: Jennifer Van Bergen

From ufpj-news

U.S. jets mistakenly strafed Canadian occupation soldiers in Afghanistan on Monday, killing one and bringing to five the number of Canadian troops killed during a major push against the Taliban this weekend.

http://tinyurl.com/fyay4


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New Report Says
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/05/1430204


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Tom Paine
by Jim Lobe

10/04/06

Five years after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was putting the final touches on a brilliant campaign plan to oust the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies from power, Afghanistan is back in the headlines here, and the news isn't good. An unexpectedly fierce and prolonged Taliban offensive that began last spring has U.S. and NATO officials deeply worried that they face a serious insurgency fueled by a thriving drug trade and growing popular disaffection with the government of President Hamid Karzai. Greatly compounding their concern is Pakistan's cease-fire agreement with pro-Taliban, Pashtun tribal leaders signed earlier this month to withdraw thousands of army troops from North Waziristan and release several hundred Taliban and al-Qaida militants from jail...

http://tinyurl.com/rwcae


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Nearly five years after the US military drove the Taliban out of Afghanistan, total victory appears as distant and remote as the long-embattled nation itself. In fact, after several years of relative calm, the Taliban and al-Qaeda have staged a dramatic comeback.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406S.shtml

An Iraqi security guard broke down in tears while telling a court martial how he was allegedly beaten by UK soldiers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5407420.stm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m26864&hd=0&size=1&l=t


Informant: crude45