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Secret justice? Ken Clarke would simply help hide what should be exposed |...
Plans to prevent any MI5 or MI6 intelligence being disclosed in court may please the spooks, but should spook the rest of usIn the circumstances, lord chancellor and justice secretary Ken Clarke made a...
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What is the real price of the London Olympics? | Jules Boykoff
The cost of hosting the Olympics has skyrocketed while private funders have evaporated. Welcome to celebration capitalismThe 2012 Olympics glimmer on London's horizon, but the Games are more than a...
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Al-Shabaab shows weakness, not strength in Somalia theatre bombing | Simon...
Divided and in retreat, the question is whether al-Shabaab's death throes will drag Somalia into another cycle of violenceThere was a time when al-Shabaab, Somalia's largest and most notorious Islamist...
View ArticleSomalia theatre suicide bomber kills top sports officials - video
The presidents of Somalia's Olympic committee and football federation are among at least ten people killed in suicide attack
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Alleged 9/11 mastermind to face new military trial at Guantánamo
War crimes tribunal could result in death penalty for accused terrorists as controvery lingers over decision on a military trialThe alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four...
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Somalia theatre suicide bombing kills top sports officials
Somali Olympics chief among at least 10 dead as al-Shabaab suicide bomber targets re-opened theatreAt least 10 people, including the presidents of Somalia's Olympic committee and football federation,...
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This al-Qaida Africa logic is flimsy | Afua Hirsch
Grievances in west Africa are too ill-defined and too local to radicalise African Muslims in BritainWhen Nigerians learned about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab – the 24-year-old who tried to blow up a...
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French anti-terror raids: security and protection, or electioneering?
Nicolas Sarkozy's opponents query the 'spectacle' of the raids and their timing in the wake of Mohamed Merah's killing spreeOnce again, France woke to news of a string of dawn raids against suspected...
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Letters: Secrecy, surveillance and the state
Your editorial (Don't mess with the rule of law, 4 April) and Henry Porter's analysis (Secret courts, total surveillance. North Korea would be proud, 4 April) both point to the worrying attack which...
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National liberty is at stake, as well as national security | Martin Kettle
The plan to hold secret court hearings is anti-terror reflex, imported at the behest of the US by the security servicesAs I write, highly civilised human beings living within a few miles of this office...
View ArticleSomalia suicide bomb blast captured on camera – video
An attack by a female suicide bomber in Mogadishu is caught on camera. Ten people, including top sports officials, died in the explosion
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Babar Ahmad accuses Britain of 'outsourcing' his terror case to US
Briton detained without charge since 2004 while fighting extradition to US makes televised plea to be tried in the UKBabar Ahmad, the British man jailed without trial since 2004 while fighting...
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How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses...
Believe me, you don't want the state having the power to strip your clothes off. And yet, it's exactly what is happeningIn a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be...
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US withheld al-Qaida terrorist plot details from UK intelligence
CIA reportedly held back data from MI5 and MI6 in retaliation for UK court disclosing details of Briton held in Guantánamo BayThe UK government has claimed that the US withheld information from MI5 and...
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China adds six Uighurs to terrorist list
Beijing claims the men were trained to carry out terror attacks in another south Asian country - most likely PakistanChina has given rare details of what is says are the links between militant groups...
View ArticleViktor Bout sentenced to 25 years by US court - video
Arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the Merchant of Death, is sentenced to the mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison
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Babar Ahmad and the injustice of the US/UK extradition laws | Victoria Brittain
In the eight years Ahmad has been locked up without charge, a situation has developed that MPs of all sides call KafkaesqueLast night's BBC interview from a high-security prison with Babar Ahmad, who...
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George Galloway's victory shows Britain is sick of the war in Afghanistan |...
The Bradford West result is a powerful message of a collapse of trust between people and politicians. The lies must end nowThe people of Bradford West have spoken. It's a message of thunderous...
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Nigeria bombing kills 38 in city of Kaduna
Explosion detonated by suicide bomber on busy road blows windows out of nearby hotels and homesA suicide car bomber killed at least 38 people on Sunday morning on a busy road in the Nigerian city of...
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Mali's president resigns after coup
Army promises to relinquish power as neighbouring states argue over how to deal with separatist rebelsThe president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, resigned on Sunday, and the soldiers who ousted him in...
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