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The Home Secretary was accused of sexing up the terror threat to boost his chances of becoming Prime Minister.

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The City regulator issued a warning to the high street banks yesterday that the "clouds were already darkening" and urged them to prepare for the impact of rising unemployment and the knock-on effect on bad debts.

http://money.guardian.co.uk/saving/banks/story/0,,1948961,00.html


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Al Qaeda's influence and numbers are rapidly growing in Afghanistan, with fighters operating from new havens and mimicking techniques learned on the Iraqi battlefield for use against U.S. and allied troops, U.S. intelligence officials said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/16/content_5340271.htm


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Two Afghan civilians were killed and a child injured on Thursday after their van was shot at by the British troops.

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Guardian [UK]

11/16/06

The government's anti-terror law watchdog, Lord Carlile, warned ministers yesterday not to 'rush to judgment' on any decision to attempt to extend the detention without charge of terror suspects beyond the current 28 days. As the independent reviewer of Britain's counter terror laws, the Liberal Democrat peer said he had yet to see the evidence needed to 'fully support' the claim made by the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, that it was 'time to examine the case for longer'...

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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23944/1.html

Nach Bekanntwerden des Falls wird darüber diskutiert, ob die britische Regierung davon wusste und sich wie beim Auslieferungsgesetz zu sehr den Wünschen der US-Regierung unterworfen hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23954/1.html

The vast majority of Labour MPs failed Parliament when they didn't back a fresh inquiry into Blair's manipulation of the case for the invasion of Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1939943,00.html


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=414575&in_page_id=1770


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