Clarke reveals terror deportation rulesThe government today substantially expanded its criteria for deporting or excluding foreign nationals it believes pose a threat to the national interest.
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, outlined the new guidelines following a three-week consultation period with faith groups - which saw the government drop one of its more controversial definitions of unacceptable behaviour.
That was a clause specifying views "which the government considers to be extreme and that ... (more)
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Chinese Detainees Trapped in Limbo at GuantanamoIn late 2003, the Pentagon quietly decided that 15 Chinese Muslims detained at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be released. Five were people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, some of them picked up by Pakistani bounty hunters for U.S. payoffs. The other 10 were deemed low-risk detainees whose enemy was China's communist government--not the United States, according to senior U.S. officials.
More than 20 months later, the 15 still languish at Guantana... (more)
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Cop Tube Shooting: They Do Have CCTVTHE final minutes of tragic Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes WERE caught on CCTV, it was revealed yesterday.
Investigators described the video footage as "interesting" and said it would eventually be shown in court.
This follows earlier claims that police had handed back CCTV tapes to tube staff saying: "They are blank."
But an Independent Police Complaints Commission spokesman said there was no truth in that story.
He added: "There is... (more)
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Suicide bombs breakthrough gives police vital cluesThe four terrorists who killed 56 people in London on July 7 triggered the bombs themselves by pressing a device similar to a button, senior police sources have told the Guardian.
The discovery scotches the theory that the four British-born men may have been duped into carrying the rucksack bombs on to three crowded tube trains and one bus, unaware they were going to explode.
Initially it was thought the bombs might have been attached to devices on mobile phones, a ... (more)
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Police marksmen could face charges for shooting Brazilian at Tube stationThe policemen who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes could face criminal charges over their fatal error, a coroner has been told.
The inquest into the Brazilian electrician's death was delayed for six months to allow the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to complete its inquiry. But the IPCC investigation will not be published until any court case, or disciplinary action, against the officers is complete.
Mr de Menezes died when he was shot eight times ... (more)
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Warner urged to declare emergency in illegals crisisState legislators said yesterday that Virginia is facing an immigration crisis on par with Arizona and New Mexico and urged Gov. Mark Warner to declare an emergency like the governors of those two states did last week.
Delegate Jeffrey M. Frederick, Prince William County Republican, has asked Mr. Warner, a Democrat, to declare a state of emergency to stop the influx of illegal aliens into the state. Mr. Frederick said that even though Virginia does not share a border with Mexico, ... (more)
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Homeland security chief stops short of promising more border helpWhile sympathetic to the plight of U.S. border communities reeling under the rising tide of illegal immigrants, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff stopped short Tuesday of promising such places any significant increase in the number of border agents or other federal resources.
Chertoff said his department would likely shift some resources to troubled areas, especially once an ongoing review of illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border is completed. But he told rep... (more)
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Bush says Sheehan does not represent most military familiesU.S. President Bush says the "Peace Mom" who has been camping near his ranch at Crawford, Texas, does not represent the view of most military families.
In Donnelly, Idaho, Tuesday -- between speeches to rally support for the war -- Bush said fulfilling demands by Cindy Sheehan for withdrawal from Iraq would weaken the United States.
Bush said he understood Sheehan's anguish over her son's death in Iraq last year.
But he said he disagreed with her asse... (more)
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New Cameras to Watch Over New York Subway SystemOfficials unveiled the high-tech future of transit security in New York City yesterday: an ambitious plan to saturate the subways with 1,000 video cameras and 3,000 motion sensors and to enable cellphone service in 277 underground stations - but not in moving trains - for the first time.
Moving quickly after the subway and bus bombings in London last month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority awarded a three-year, $212 million contract to a group of contractors led by the Lo... (more)
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Gig Harbor police to share dataGig Harbor police could be the latest to join a multi-agency effort to share information and squelch potential terrorist activity.
The City Council voted recently to join the Law Enforcement Information Exchange, known as “Linx.” Spurred by intelligence lapses leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks, the system keeps a database of investigative information from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in the Puget Sound area.
The system’s gover... (more)
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Kremlin plots to secure Putin a third termKremlin loyalists across Russia have begun a concerted campaign to rewrite the country's constitution to allow President Vladimir Putin to serve a third term.
The initiative is likely to cause alarm in the West where there is growing concern at the Kremlin's assault on democracy.
The catalyst for the enthusiasm for ending the ban on a president serving more than two terms was a recent remark Mr Putin made in Finland. The president, in power since 2000, had always b... (more)
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Study Finds 29-Week Fetuses Probably Feel No Pain and Need No Abortion AnesthesiaTaking on one of the most highly charged questions in the abortion debate, a team of doctors has concluded that fetuses probably cannot feel pain in the first six months of gestation and therefore do not need anesthesia during abortions.
Their report, being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, is based on a review of several hundred scientific papers, and it says that nerve connections in the brain are unlikely to have developed enough for the fetus ... (more)
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Cybertroops Keep War Games RealThis month, as they have every summer for 31 years, hundreds of thousands of North Korean soldiers will pour over the border and advance on the South Korean capital of Seoul, while U.S. and South Korean troops scramble to repel them.
The invading troops, fortunately, are not real. They're the imaginary opponents in one of the world's largest war games, which the United States and the Republic of Korea hold annually. But even as the allies mobilize thousands of real soldiers for th... (more)
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Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration I had been hesitant to speak out before because this Administration is so vindictive. But now I will ... Anybody who confronts this Administration or Rumsfeld or the Pentagon with a true assessment, they find themselves either out of a job, out of their positions, fired, relieved or chastised. Their career comes to an end.
-- Janis Karpinski, interview with Marjorie Cohn, August 3, 2005
Army Reserve Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was in charge of the i... (more)
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S.B. Deputy Charged in Shooting After ChaseVideo Here
A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy who shot a suspect three times while being videotaped was charged today with attempted voluntary manslaughter and faces 18½ years in prison.
San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Michael A. Ramos announced that charges have been filed against Deputy Ivory Webb Jr. It is the first time that Ramos' office ha... (more)
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Security law would unlock NetThe federal cabinet will review new legislation this fall that would give police and security agencies vast powers to begin surveillance of the Internet without court authority.
The new measures would allow law enforcement agents to intercept personal e-mails, text messages and possibly even password-secure Web sites used for purchasing and financial transactions.
A law professor and privacy expert involved in consultations over the bill said a draft version of the ... (more)
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Bush says anti-war protests threaten to weaken the United StatesPresident George W. Bush said Tuesday that anti-war protesters such as Cindy Sheehan, who want U.S. troops brought home immediately, are "advocating a policy that would weaken the United States."
In remarks to reporters outside an exclusive resort where he is vacationing, Bush gave no indication that he would change his mind and meet with Sheehan when he returns to his Texas ranch Wednesday evening.
Sheehan, who lost a son in Iraq and has emerged as a harsh critic o... (more)
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Russia wires $15 billion, which complete early debt payment to Paris ClubThe prescheduled debt payment gave Russia an opportunity to save some $400 million in 2005
Russia has completed the prescheduled debt payment to the Paris Club of Creditors. The overall sum, which has been paid to the club from the former USSR, makes up $15 billion. Thirteen billion dollars of the sum were wired into two parts on July 15 and 29 to eleven countries (Australia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Canada, the USA, France, Finland and Sweden). The... (more)
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Borrowing, Spending, CounterfeitingFew Americans truly understand how our Federal Reserve system enables Congress to spend far beyond its means, but the cycle of spending and printing money affects all of us. Simply put, the more money our Treasury prints, the less every dollar is worth. Our pure fiat money system, in place since the last vestiges of a gold standard were eliminated in the early 1970s, has reduced the value of your savings by 80%. Disregard the government’s Consumer Price Index, which substantially underr... (more)
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Woman Files Complaint After Doctor Tells Her She's ObeseThe New Hampshire attorney general is investigating a Rochester doctor because a patient complained that he bluntly told her she needed to lose weight.
Dr. Terry Bennett said that he's outraged by what he calls a baseless complaint. A patient was apparently insulted when Bennett told her that she was obese and could only get healthier by losing weight.
"It's an epidemic in the United States, and it's croaking us," Bennett said.
Bennett said that it's ... (more)
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