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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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Yvonne Ridley

Author:	Yvonne Ridley	Created:	24/12/2006 12:45
British-born, award-winning journalist Yvonne Ridley is well known in the Muslim world for her outspoken views and defence of Islam. She endeared herself to the Muslim community in Britain when she reverted to Islam 30 months after making international headlines when she was captured by the Taleban on an undercover assignment in Afghanistan.

“You can only demand to be treated as an equal if you act like one.” – Sr Yvonne Ridley
	By Yvonne Ridley on 19/02/2008 09:58

It is now two weeks since that turbulent priest, the Archbishop of Canterbury, dared to say there could be some room for sharia’h law in today’s Britain. I don’t think he could have forseen the anti-Muslim backlash which followed

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The West adored Benazir Bhutto...
	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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Well another year over short-sword fighting in defence of Political Islam
	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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Talking to Hamas
	By Yvonne Ridley on 06/12/2007 13:44

I recently addressed a debate at Durham University in which the question of: ‘Should Israel talk to Hamas’ was the main platform for the discussion.

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Martyr in the making: The strange case of Mudassar Arani
	By Yvonne Ridley on 29/10/2007 11:37

Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights stipulates the right to a Fair Trial. It is resolutely impossible to conceive of a trial being fair when the lawyer, let alone the client, is subject to sustained abuse and harassment at the hands of the establishment.

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Betraying the Palestinians
	By Yvonne Ridley on 06/09/2007 09:58

The territory has been described as one of the most desolate places in the world. But it is also one of the most hotly disputed pieces of land on the planet as well, and has been the subject of a bitter battle for self determination and independence for decades.
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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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