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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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Alan Hart

Author:	Alan Hart	Created:	30/01/2007 22:35
Alan Hart has been engaged with events in the Middle East and their global consequences and terrifying implications for nearly 40 years. He has looked at the possibility of a Clash of Civilisations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic, and along the way, the unleashing of the monsters of Islamaphobia and anti-Semitism.

Open Letter to PM Blair: Doing a Northern Ireland in the Middle East
	By Alan Hart on 17/05/2007 10:29

Dear Prime Minister Blair Giving the impossible a go in Israel-Palestine. I write to you with the warning words of Yehoshafat Harkabi reverberating in my mind. (He was, before your time, Israel’s longest serving and most enlightened Director of Military Intelligence. I’ll get to his warning words in due course).

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Only Palestinians can give Israel legitimacy
	By Alan Hart on 31/01/2007 14:06

It’s time, actually long past the time, that debate about who must do what and why to stop the countdown to catastrophe in the Middle East was informed by the facts about whether or not Israel had a right to come into existence.

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2008: Safari Tourism in Iraq, By Pablo Ouziel

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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