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The Government refused last night to give details of the flights entering Britain containing American arms destined for Israel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/02/nbombs02.xml


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Independent [UK]

08/02/06

The Government has been rebuffed for the second time in the courts over its use of control orders, amounting to virtual house arrest, for terrorist suspects. The ruling by the Court of Appeal plunges the control order regime, the centrepiece of recent anti-terror legislation, deeper into crisis. Five weeks ago, the High Court denounced the controversial restrictions on six terror suspects as a breach of their human rights as they amounted to a deprivation of liberty. John Reid, the Home Secretary, challenged the ruling, but the appeal judges inflicted a second defeat on the Government...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1209753.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Murdoch set to back Blair for a place in his boardroom

Fox TV owner and media magnate Rupert Murdoch is expected to offer Tony Blair a senior role in his News Corporation empire when he stands down as Prime Minister.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14265.htm

Cabinet ministers warned that Mr Blair's refusal to stand up to Mr Bush would hasten his own exit from power.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1202887.ece


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A House of Lords committee has called for Prime Minister Tony Blair to be stripped of his power to send Britain to war.

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Tony Blair flies to California this week to address the annual get-together of News Corporation - led by one Rupert Murdoch. From Europe to broadcasting, terrorism to the direction of the nation, what is the truth about one of the most intriguing relationships in British public life?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1827023,00.html


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Melbourne Herald Sun [Australia]

07/14/06

British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a police interrogation over what he knew about the cash-for-peerages scandal. The scandal yesterday threatened to claim its biggest victim -- his chief fundraiser and trusted confidant Lord Michael Levy. ... Levy, who was not charged, was arrested and interrogated over allegations that the cash-strapped Labour Party traded peerages and other honours in exchange for donations. The scandal not only threatens the Government but, some say, leads all the way to the Prime Minister...

http://tinyurl.com/hbe96


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's top fundraiser, Lord Levy, was arrested Wednesday in an investigation into whether Labour party leaders improperly nominated financial backers for seats in the House of Lords, Levy's spokesman said.

http://tinyurl.com/hocdn


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International Herald Tribune [France]

07/11/06

Britain will send 900 more soldiers to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, where its forces are facing intense resistance from resurgent Taliban loyalists, the defense secretary, Des Browne, said Monday. Also Monday, officials said a U.S. warplane had dropped four 500-pound, or 225-kilogram, bombs on a militants' hideout in Uruzgan Province, also in the south, killing more than 40 suspected members of the Taliban. One Afghan soldier was killed and three members of the U.S.-led coalition forces were wounded in fighting Monday in Uruzgan. Heavy clashes in neighboring Kandahar Province over the weekend left 20 militants and a Canadian soldier dead...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/news/brits.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp