the ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah

Brought to us by Melanie Phillips at the Spectator is quite the scandal in a french court.
Philippe Karsenty is the founder of a French media watchdog called Media Ratings. Media Ratings accused French 2 of staging the al Durah “killing” and called for the resignation of some of France 2’s employees, namely Charles Enderlin, [...]

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I was just given an amazing little treat.

Joe Cafasso stopped by and made a comment.
I thought you should know.

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1000 troops to return from Iraq by Christmas

Sky News reports.
On a visit to Baghdad, Gordon Brown said he believed that Basra province could be handed over to full Iraqi control within the next two months.
“I believe that by the end of the year British troops can be reduced to 4,500,” he said “That releases 1,000 of our troops and hopefully they will [...]

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Hamas and the Dagmoush gang

Journalists have this annoying tendency to let their bias slip. When they categorize the Dogmoush gang as the Army of Islam they’re not being entirely honest which diminishing their credibility quite a bit. The Dagmoush clan is actually a very large family. We know from Bin Laden’s coming from a family of [...]

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Russians reject extradition request for Andrei Lugovoi in connection with the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko

Naturally, there is room for skepticism here.

Andrei Lugovoi in an AP photo from May 31, 2007
There is a ban in Russia’s constitution, apparently, on the extradition of Russian citizens, and European convention on the same subject. But what is surprising to me is a particular point made in the the Russian prosecutor Yuri Chaika’s [...]

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Hamas denies it paid a ransom for Johnston’s release

Funny.
Deposed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh denied reports on Thursday night that the Army of Islam, the group that kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, had received money in exchange for his release, Israel Radio reported.
According to Haniyeh, Johnston was released without preconditions, and no deal was struck with the kidnappers.
The kidnappers, however, claimed they had [...]

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this is worthy of a notation

Media report that Britain is studying the link to Al Qaeda in the recent attempts on Glasgow and London.
But. It’s not British media that report it.
Reuters India “Britain studies bomb plot for links to al Qaeda”

Reuters India “Brown orders doctors probe after British bomb plot”
Reuters India “Britain quizzes bomb plot suspects, reviews threat”
Crikey, India [...]

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