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British Man Held for Fraud in Iraq Bomb Detectors

The director of a British company that supplies bomb detectors to Iraq has been arrested on fraud charges, and the export of the devices has been banned, British government officials confirmed Saturday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/world ... anner.html

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Ok GR, you have identified some isolated imcidences.

Can you provide some commentry on the number of muslim-on-muslim deaths in these areas.

Bets on that he won't.

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UK 'using obscure legal principle' to dismiss torture claims in colonial Kenya

Foreign Office says it is 'not liable for acts and omissions' of administration after alleged abuse of Mau Mau suspects

The government is invoking an obscure legal principle to dismiss claims of torture and rape by the British colonial administration in Kenya, campaigners claimed.

The Foreign Office has said four elderly Kenyans alleging that they suffered serious physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the British during the Kenyan "emergency" of 1952 to 1960 should not be allowed to proceed with their claim because of the law of state succession

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ja ... re-mau-mau

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70-year gag on Kelly death evidence

Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported.

Dr Kelly's body was found in woods close to his Oxfordshire home in 2003, shortly after it was revealed that he was the source of a BBC report casting doubt on the Government's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction capable of being fired within 45 minutes.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpres ... 3pP24avumw

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Expert lawyers to declare Iraq war illegal

Two former government lawyers involved in the preparations for Britain's invasion of Iraq will testify at a public inquiry this week that the March 2003 conflict was illegal, reports said Sunday.

Their evidence will kick-start what was already expected to be an explosive few days at the Chilcot inquiry into the war, thanks to the appearance Friday of former prime minister Tony Blair, who led Britain into the conflict.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100124/wl ... icsinquiry

[Free Spirit]

Ok GR, you have identified some isolated imcidences.

Can you provide some commentry on the number of muslim-on-muslim deaths in these areas.

Bets on that he won't.

Told you he wouldn't answer.

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Blair’s appearance at Iraq inquiry to spark mass anti-war protest

Thousands of anti-war campaigners are preparing for Tony Blair’s appearance at the Iraq inquiry in what could be the biggest political demonstration since last year’s G20 protests.

Riot police will be on stand-by around the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, close to the Houses of Parliament, as the former Prime Minister faces more than five hours of questioning on Friday.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 000698.ece

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Iraq inquiry: defiant Tony Blair heckled as he says 'no regrets'

A defiant Tony Blair has mounted a vigorous defence of the invasion of Iraq, telling the Chilcot Inquiry he had no regrets over removing Saddam Hussein and would do the same again.

In his long-awaited appearance before the Iraq Inquiry, the former prime minister denied he had taken the country to war on the basis of a "lie" over Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

He suggested the world could now be faced with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iraq if he and President George Bush had not taken action to confront the Iraqi dictator.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... grets.html

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Blair Lied, Thousands Died

You’re a liar and murderer, say protesters in Britain.

Although I often criticize soldiers for participating in the war in Iraq, I believe Blair and Bush are the chief war criminals.

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/01/30/ ... ands-died/

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Remember the illegal destruction of Iraq?

British political news has been consumed for the last several weeks by a formal inquiry into the illegality and deceit behind Tony Blair's decision to join the U.S. in invading Iraq. Today, Blair himself is publicly testifying before the investigative commission and is being grilled about numerous false claims he made in the run-up to the war, not only about Iraqi weapons programs (his taxi-cab-derived "45-minutes-to-launch!!" warning) and Saddam's ties to Al Qaeda, but also about secret commitments he made to join the U.S. at a time when he and Bush were still pretending that they were undecided and awaiting the outcome of the U.N. negotiations and the inspection process.

A major focus of the investigation is the illegality of the war. Some of the most embarrassing details that have emerged concern the conclusions by the British Government's own legal advisers that the invasion of Iraq would be illegal without U.N. approval. The top British legal officer had concluded that the war would be illegal, only to change his mind under substantial pressure shortly before the invasion. Several weeks ago, a formal investigation in the Netherlands -- whose government had supported the invasion -- produced the first official adjudication of the legality of the war, and found it illegal, with "no basis in international law."

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn ... index.html