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Blair Forced to Condemn Saddam Lynching

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Channel 4 News - Snowmail (UK) - Jan 7, 2007
http://www.channel4.com

Blair: manner of Saddam's execution 'completely wrong'

Tony Blair will do a slightly toned down version of John Prescott's response
to Saddam Hussein's execution this week. His press office is saying he will
tell us he thinks the manner of the execution was "completely wrong".

Not, take note, the execution itself (although he will no doubt restate
Britain's opposition to the death penalty) but the manner in which it was
carried out. The PM's hitherto silence on the whole sorry saga of the
hanging and the video and the taunts has drawn much criticism.

What we are told he will say is hardly surprising. What's perhaps more
interesting is that it follows Gordon Brown's declaration this morning that
the whole thing was a deplorable set of events. Mr Brown was also clear that
there are several lessons to be learned from the whole Iraq episode.

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More Brit Terror Hysteria: "We Caught al Qaeda Banker"

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[Uh-huh. Convenient it's a Respect supporter. They don't dare go
after Galloway again; he won a libel suit against such charges.
But some people are still drinking the Kool Aid from the poisoned
well. See 2nd post below from a Blog.

Terror! Cash! al Qaeda banker! Film at 11.... -NY Transfer]

sent by Michael Givel (activ-l)

The Sunday Times of London - Jan 7, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-523-2535240-523,00.html

Londoner named as Al-Qaeda 'banker'

Accounts frozen as suspect accused over terror pipeline

by David Leppard and Robert Booth

THE British and American governments have named a key Al-Qaeda
suspect in Britain as one of the terror group's alleged bankers.

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Israeli Plan to Nuke Iran: The Official Denial

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[Well, since we never believe anything until it's officially denied,
it looks as though the Brit newspapers may be more right than
alarmist. -NY Transfer]

sent by Michael Givel (activ-l)

Haaretz - Jan 7, 2007
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/810130.html

Israel denies plan to hit Iran enrichment plant with tactical nukes

By Haaretz Service and Agencies

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem denied Sunday a report in the
British media that Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's
uranium enrichment facilities with conventional and tactical nuclear
weapons.

"Donald Maitland" thanku.com> wrote in message
news:u3n2q2l8hirbc7io7uamjt1vr6tqkcut44@4ax.com...

I was asking *Moderator* where his proof was that he was "protesting Saddam
Hussein's abuses", and the moron had NO proof in his false accusation that I
was supporting saddam.

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BBC Profile of Vt's Bernie Sanders, Socialist Senator

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[The BBC profiles Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont.]

BBC via Common Dreams; republished by CubaNow - Jan 5, 2007
http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?&secc=12&item=1839&cont=show.php

Socialist Senator Makes US History

By Richard Allen Greene

The US Senate may not be ready for Bernard Sanders. It's a collegial, even
fusty place, where senators' hair turns white with decades of speeches and
service.

Mr Sanders has the requisite white hair surrounding his bald patch, but his
attitude remains unmistakeably New York despite his many years in Vermont.

"Anybody read your website?" he asks the BBC brusquely at the beginning of
an interview ahead of taking his seat in the Senate.

Assured that millions do, he says: "OK, let's talk to them."

The blunt manner is not all that sets apart Mr Sanders, the newly-elected
senator from Vermont known to all and sundry simply as "Bernie".

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Iran, Russia Again Urge Talks over Nukes

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[Russia is supporting Iran's call for talks to reach a solution on the
issue of nuclear development. The US keeps insisting on surrender before
negotiations, and Iran will not give up its right, under the NPT, to
develop nuclear power. Nothing changes. But Russia is assuming the
temporary rotating Presidency of the UN Security Council and continues
to urge restraint (2nd item below). -NY Transfer]

Prensa Latina, Havana
http://www.plenglish.com

Iranian Diplomat Favors Nuclear Talks

Havana, Jan 6 (PL/NYTr) The Iranian ambassador to Cuba Ahmad Edrisian
has declared that only dialogue will solve the controversies on the nuclear
issue between the US and his country.

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Archbishop Rebuked for Supporting pro-Nazi Priest

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sent by Simon McGuinness

[The Pope's Nazi past appears to render him incapable of dealing
adequately with the rise of fascist sympathisers in the Church
exemplified by this Slovakian archbishop. So far his leadership has
been anything but sure-footed. So much for the safe pair of hands
promised. -SMcG]

The Irish Times - Jan 5, 2007
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2007/0105/1167776701802.html

Primate rebuked for supporting pro-Nazi priest

by Daniel McLaughlin in Budapest

SLOVAKIA: Rights groups in Slovakia have lambasted one of the country's
Catholic archbishops for calling the wartime rule of a pro-Nazi priest a
"time of wellbeing".

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BBC: Hanging 'makes martyr of Saddam'

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BBC News - Jan 5, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6233951.stm

Hanging 'makes martyr of Saddam'

"No-one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed - they turned
him into a martyr, and the problems in Iraq remained." -Hosni Mubarak

The circumstances of the hanging of Saddam Hussein have turned the former
Iraqi leader into a martyr, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has said.

Mr Mubarak said the unofficial pictures that emerged of the event were
revolting and barbaric.

The chaotic scenes at the execution, during which Saddam was taunted, have
been condemned across the world.

Egypt is a key regional ally of the US and one of only two Arab states to
have signed a peace deal with Israel.