The Federal Aviation Administration received repeated warnings in the months prior to Sept. 11, 2001, about al-Qaida and its desire to attack airlines, according to a previously undisclosed report by the commission that investigated the terror attacks. The report by the Sept. 11 commission detailed 52 such warnings given to FAA leaders from April to […]
Les mer»10.02: Ah! hvor kjedelig avisene skriver, når historiene ligger rett fremfor dem. Det ble sagt om Condis tale i Paris at den var full av underliggende følelsesmessig spenning. Dette var en viktig tale. Condi er en spennende person: hun hentet fram bilder på frihetslengsel fra sin egen bakgrunn: hun snakket om at borgerrettsbevegelsen begynte med […]
Les mer»A survivor of the Holocaust has called on Ken Livingstone to apologise for remarks he made in an exchange with an Evening Standard journalist, comparing the reporter to a «concentration camp guard». The mayor of London told the reporter, Oliver Finegold, that he should not be working for a paper that has a «record of […]
Les mer»Hvite rømmer London, og erstattes av innvandrere i høyt tempo: «The change in 10 years has been «extraordinarily rapid», with 606,000 more people moving out of London than arrived from elsewhere in the country. In the same period, a net 726,000 immigrants arrived in the capital. Telegraph
Les mer»A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients – a radical Egyptian sheik – to his terrorist disciples on the outside. The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the case of Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, […]
Les mer»(An)Israeli official said troops would not retaliate after some 50 mortar bombs and rockets hit settlements in Gaza.(…) There were no casualties in the attacks by militants who have refused to participate in Abbas’s ceasefire gesture, and plans for him to reconvene with Sharon next week at the Israeli leader’s desert ranch re2_kommentared in place. […]
Les mer»Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired three security chiefs on Thursday after militants, defying his ceasefire with Israel, launched mortar bombs at Jewish settlements and gunmen raided a Palestinian jail. A Palestinian security official said Abdel-Razek al-Majaydeh, public security chief for the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian Authority police chief Saeb al-Ajez and Omar Ashour, commander […]
Les mer»Nearly two dozen Russian lawmakers who proposed that Jewish groups be outlawed must go on trial, human rights activists have said in a letter addressed to parliament and the prosecutor general’s office. The Russian nationalists’ demand could not go unpunished, and the 20 lawmakers in the 450 seat chamber must be stripped of their immunity […]
Les mer»8.2: Time to close the day. Takknemlig for innspill/reaksjoner. Skal forsøke å svare mer. Men noen ganger er tonen slik at det ikke innbyr. En merkelig foreteelse: behovet for å veie fenomener på en verdiskala. Å stemple noe som godt eller dårlig. Dette er helt plagsomt i utenriksdekningen, som når Tveit, Waage og desslike skal […]
Les mer»09.02: Det blir mye tjat, som dekker over det vesentlige, som dette: NATO officials last June agreed to form a mission in Iraq to train 1,000 Iraqi officers annually, but the alliance has not yet raised enough staff for formal training to commence. NATO has sent about 80 of a planned 300 military officers to […]
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