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Foreign powers are clearly failing in Afghanistan; they neither won hearts and minds nor contributed to the stability and rebuilding of the country in any meaningful way - 60 percent of the country's economy is now dependent on narcotics exports.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1634/1/

Tony Blair has warned that an investigation into a £40 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia would lead to the "complete wreckage" of vital British national interests.

http://tinyurl.com/37kdfo


From Information Clearing House

http://tinyurl.com/2u2mag


From ufpj-news

The final days of Tony Blair's premiership were in disarray last night as plans to give police "draconian" powers to stop and question people provoked open dispute among Cabinet ministers.

http://snipurl.com/1mgxv


From Information Clearing House

Independent [UK]

05/25/07

John Reid faced growing anger as he signalled the Government was ready to declare that Britain faced an ‘emergency’ over terrorism and opt out of human rights legislation. As the recriminations flew over the disappearance of three radical Islamists who had been on control orders, he made clear his determination to bring in tougher curbs on terror suspects...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2581223.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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We may declare an emergency to quit rights act, says Reid

Police would be able to continue questioning terrorist suspects after they had been charged under proposals to be published within weeks by John Reid.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1837662.ece


From Information Clearing House



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=John+Reid

Three recent U.S. special forces operations that killed at least 90 Afghan civilians have caused friction with America's NATO partners, who are concerned the killings hurt the standing of Western troops fighting the Taliban insurgency.

http://snipurl.com/1ly2l


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=insurgency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Special+Operations+Forces

Um eine weitere Zuspitzung der Situation in Afghanistan zu vermeiden, fordert Wolfgang Wodarg (SPD), Mitglied im Ausschuss für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, die Rückholung der deutschen Tornados aus Afghanistan und die Beendigung der deutschen Teilnahme am "Enduring Freedom"-Einsatz. "Viele Entwicklungspolitiker haben genau das, was sich jetzt durch den Tod der drei deutschen Soldaten in Afghanistan abzeichnet, befürchtet", so Wodarg.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15997



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Tornados

Kein Strategiewechsel http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25345/1.html



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Tornados

It's Thriving, But Lethal: Britain's Decade of Arms Exports Puts The Lie To Any Notion of An Ethical Foreign Policy Under Blair.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/22/1357/