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On his visit to Washington Cameron promised a review into the papers surrounding the issue and a Senate foreign relation committee are requesting UK politicians to travel to Washington to answer questions on the release, including if a BP oil deal was involved.
So far, Scottish ministers have turned down their committee requests and it was reported earlier in the week Scotlands' First Minister Alex Salmond wrote a letter to the senators stating if they were concerned about BP involvement they should focus on "the previous UK administration". The reason for not attending is due to information supplied to the Senators from Salmond.
Bps' Tony Hayward is still considering his request, while reports state Jack Straw 'expressed unease' into going to the committee.
I'm sure I heard Mandelson was mentioned a while back, but looks like he hasn't been given a request. It was also reported Blair received a request, which was later denied "the committee has apologised that a draft letter to Mr Blair was published in error. A committee spokesman has since said Mr Blair will not be invited to appear."-BBC
There was shock when Al-Megrahi was released from medical reports on his deteriorating health from prostate cancer and anger grew when he lived over the doctors reports. The case caused a number of American senator to request an inquiry into the release and investigate if BP oil deals played a part in the release.On his visit to Washington Cameron promised a review into the papers surrounding the... more
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The government’s attempts to delay the current proceedings that have yielded highly classified documents for public consumption have received a rebuttal out of court. The failed attempt to suppress the information out of court, a ’spin-off’ hope from the appeal court’s dismissal of the same case in May, has dented the coalition’s plans to restore confidence in the British Intelligence service who have been implicated in the torture of British citizens in Guantanamo and Afghanistan.
http://www.spectacle.co.uk/spectacleblog/guantanamo/government-tried-to-prevent-disclosure-of-detention-manual/The government’s attempts to delay the current proceedings that have yielded... more
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An official report of an interview with Omar Deghayes confirmed his testimony, that British Intelligence were complicit in his torture during interrogation at a US airbase in Afghanistan.
http://www.spectacle.co.uk/spectacleblog/guantanamo/measured-antipathy-and-treachery-by-british-intelligence/
The report formally recognises Deghayes complaints that he suffered internal bleeding, and showed considered revulsion at Deghayes’ health visibly deteriorating during repeated visits to interrogate him in US custody, “Throughout the interview Deghayes expectorated rather disgustingly into a tissue as if he were still tubercular. These moments usually coincided with those answers were he was most evasive.”An official report of an interview with Omar Deghayes confirmed his testimony, that... more
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“Public opinion has on the whole shown little concern about the welfare of the British detainees, or the legal terms of their detention. But the issue is clearly of sensitivity to Muslim opinion in the UK and abroad.”
The source of this quote is a memo circulated to the junior Foreign Office ministers, the Foreign Office press office and the department’s senior legal advisor, Sir Michael Wood on 4 January 2002, and refers to a number of British citizens and residents who at the time were being detained by US forces.
http://www.spectacle.co.uk/spectacleblog/guantanamo/no-ones-really-bothered-keep-going/“Public opinion has on the whole shown little concern about the welfare of the... more
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It was hotly anticipated and now it's over we can discuss what actually happened and what it all means.
Did Griffin surprise you?
Did the politicians behave as expected?
Did you think the format was altered to undermine Griffin and the BNP?It was hotly anticipated and now it's over we can discuss what actually happened... more
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Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been targeted by Nigerian internet fraudsters. Skip related content
Requests for money were sent by email to hundreds of the Blackburn MP's contacts, claiming that he had lost his wallet while on charity work in Africa and needed 3,000 US dollars to get home.
As Home Secretary, Mr Straw set up the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit to crack down on internet hackers in 2001. He said: "The internet is wonderful in many ways, but these gangs put a lot of effort in because they make money from it. In a lot of cases they do get people to cough up. But I think it was so obviously ridiculous that I could go off trekking in Africa and I would lose my wallet."
BrilliantJustice Secretary Jack Straw has been targeted by Nigerian internet fraudsters. Skip... more
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Britain's Labour government said today it wanted to reform parliament's unelected House of Lords to allow any member found guilty of corruption to be expelled.
Parliamentary investigations have started into allegations that four Labour members of the Lords were ready to take payments to try to amend laws in a scandal that has shattered the upper house of parliament's austere image.
Justice Minister Jack Straw said new rules were needed to properly punish impropriety.Britain's Labour government said today it wanted to reform parliament's... more
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The justice secretary Jack Straw has condemned a stand-up comedy course for maximum security prisoners. Participants on the course included al-Qaida terrorist Zia Ul Haq.
Straw forced Whitemoor prison managers to cancel the course immediately, as funding it with tax payers' money could not be justified.The justice secretary Jack Straw has condemned a stand-up comedy course for maximum... more
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Be an inquiry into the Iraq war... First Gordon Brown said that there would be a public inquiry into the events that led to the invasion of Iraq, and now Jack Straw says that now is not the time for it.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said that the safety of the 4,100 British troops still "in harm's way in Iraq" was more important than an inquiry.
Those troops "should not themselves be distracted by what would inevitably and understandably be a very significant argument about whether it is right or wrong for them to be present", he said.
So we are allowed our public inquiry into the invasion once the horse has bolted and the troops are home. Isn't the inquiry designed to help stop the war, rendering an inquiry into the war after it has "finished" a bit useless?Be an inquiry into the Iraq war... First Gordon Brown said that there would be a... more
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