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US elections: Obama wins Democratic nomination for president

The Guardian

 4 June 2008

 Barack Obama made history tonight by beating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination to become the first African American with a viable chance of winning the White House.

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Only a 'grave threat' would trigger 42-day detention, say ministers

 The Independent

4 June 2008 

New powers to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge would be triggered only by a "grave and exceptional" threat akin to the 7 July bombings in London, ministers said yesterday as they moved to defuse a potentially devastating revolt by Labour MPs.

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The True Miracle of Israel
Ramzy Baroud By Ramzy Baroud on 31/01/2008 15:07
Israelis and their supporters tend to depict Israel as a country of miracles. What else could explain the country's astonishing "birth" and subsequent survival against all sorts of "existential threats"? How else would Israel develop at such a phenomenal pace, making the "desert bloom" and continually scoring a high ranking amongst developed nations in most noteworthy aspects?
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Guantanamo as a Symbol
Ramzy Baroud By Ramzy Baroud on 24/01/2008 10:32
11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large cargo plane landed in a US military base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, bringing in a group of hunchbacked, orange-clad, blindfolded, "terrorist" suspects, apparently representing the worst of the worst.
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Can a thief present demands to the owner of the property he has robbed?
Iqbal Jassat By Iqbal Jassat on 10/01/2008 11:53
According to Gideon Levy, a Haaretz journalist, Israelis who bear the guilt of stealing land from the Palestinians along with their fundamental human rights and humanity, should be terribly troubled by the answers to these questions.
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The West adored Benazir Bhutto...
Yvonne Ridley By Yvonne Ridley on 07/01/2008 11:25
The West adored Benazir Bhutto. She, spoke fluent English, was educated at Harvard and Oxford and she was not an Islamic fundamentalist.
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The Iraq Charade
Ramzy Baroud By Ramzy Baroud on 07/01/2008 11:07
In recent months, we have been inundated by media reports bringing good news from Iraq, with countless testimonials to the great improvement in security enjoyed by the country in general and the Baghdad area in particular.
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Well another year over short-sword fighting in defence of Political Islam
Yvonne Ridley By Yvonne Ridley on 03/01/2008 12:52
Sadly, the fashion for being Islamophobic is stronger than ever in the media and it doesn’t help when you have more self-confessed extremists and Islamists scuttling to kiss and tell their stories than a pack of WAGS passed their sell-by date
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Shortly after the occupation of Iraq in 2003, Coalition Provisional Authority administrator Paul Bremer issued an edict granting immunity to U.S. military and civilian personnel including employees of Blackwater USA.   Read More...


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The Global Peace & Unity Event

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The Global Peace & Unity Event organised by Islam channel has proved to be the world’s largest Islamic event attracting both Muslims and Non Muslims interested to experience the diversity of Islam and at the same time gain knowledge from International speakers, acclaimed academics and scholars.

Date: Saturday 24 - Sunday 25 November 2007

Venue: Excel, London

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