Bush 'would not have invaded had he known about WMD'
Friday, March 05, 2010 (53 reads)
By David Usborne, US editor
5 March 2010
The Independent
George Bush would not have invaded Iraq - and taken Britain into a
disastrous war - had he known that intelligence on weapons of mass
destruction was simply wrong, Karl Rove, the former president's top
political consigliere, explosively suggests in a book that is to be
published next week.
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Danish newspaper apologises in Muhammad cartoons row
Friday, February 26, 2010 (71 reads)
By Lars Eriksen
26 February 2010
The Guardian
A Danish newspaper apologised today to eight Muslim organisations for the offence it caused by reprinting controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, in exchange for their dropping legal action against the newspaper.
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The Hurt Locker sees off Avatar at Baftas
Monday, February 22, 2010 (68 reads)
By Mark Brown, arts correspondent
22 February 2010
The Guardian
It came, it saw, but failed to conquer. James Cameron's Avatar, which has taken more money at the box office than any other film in the history of cinema came away tonight with just two Bafta awards in an evening dominated by arthouse films made on a fraction of its budget.
The outright winner at the London ceremony was The Hurt Locker, directed by Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow. It won six awards including best film, director, original screenplay, editing, cinematography and sound.
British success came in the acting awards with Carey Mulligan named best actress for An Education and Colin Firth best actor for A Single Man.
The Hurt Locker, a grittily realistic depiction of US army bomb disposal men in post-invasion Iraq, has been around a long time, gathering pace and acclaim on the film festival circuit. It first premiered in competition at Venice 18 months ago and has been seen by only a small fraction of those who have seen Avatar: it took $17.6m at the box office, compared with Avatar's mind-boggling $2bn.
Nevertheless, the film has been lavishly praised as a brilliantly accomplished piece of tense, well-crafted drama.
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Twitter 'is a weapon in cyber warfare'
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 (74 reads)
By Kim Sengupta, defence correspondent
16 February 2010
The Independent
Britain needs to learn from the actions of the Israeli military in the Gaza in using YouTube and tweets to engage in 21st-century cyber-warfare, the head of the Royal Air force said yesterday.
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Somali TV broadcasts plea from East London: let the Chandlers go
Friday, February 12, 2010 (121 reads)
By Martin Fletcher
12 February 2010
The Times
From a tiny, makeshift studio in a back street in Walthamstow, northeast London, a Somali satellite television channel called Universal TV is broadcasting an unequivocal message to the Somali diaspora around the world: Paul and Rachel Chandler, the British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates four months ago, must be set free.
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Israel slaps six-month travel ban on Palestinian map expert
Friday, February 05, 2010 (59 reads)
By Marian Houk
5 February 2010
Electronic Intifada
Citing "security reasons" - the ubiquitous and unanswerable catch-all phrase against which it is almost impossible to mount any defense - Israel's Ministry of the Interior has just issued a six-month travel ban on map expert Khalil Tafakji.
Tafakji, like almost all other Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, is a "permanent resident," but not a citizen of Israel.
He is frequently interviewed as an expert on Al-Jazeera satellite channel, as well as on Palestinian television and other media.
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Israeli commander: 'We rewrote the rules of war for Gaza'
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 (55 reads)
By Donald Macintyre
3 February 2010
The Independent
A high-ranking officer has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives in order to minimise military casualties during last year's Gaza war, The Independent can reveal.
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Website offers reward for Tony Blair's arrest
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 (84 reads)
Sky News
27 January 2010
A website offering a reward to people who try to arrest former Prime Minister Tony Blair for alleged "crimes against peace" has raised over £9,000 in just two days.
The website, called Arrest Blair, was launched on January 25 - just four days before he was due to give evidence to the Chilcott inquiry into the Iraq war.
It was created by writer George Monbiot, an environmental and political activist who has a weekly column in The Guardian newspaper.
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