<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220</id><updated>2011-07-08T23:21:39.453+01:00</updated><title type='text'>~The Rose &amp; The Oak leaf~</title><subtitle type='html'>...The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who can not fly...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>64</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115616755530000239</id><published>2006-08-21T14:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-21T14:39:15.563+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Brit is 20th Para to be Killed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/bsib.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/bsib.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A Para yesterday became the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;20th&lt;/span&gt; British soldier killed in Afghanistan since UK operations began there in 2001.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The soldier, from the &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;3rd Battalion&lt;/span&gt;, died fighting the Taliban in Sangin, Helmand province. Three of his colleagues suffered minor injuries during the clash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Their battalion is based at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Colchester Garrison&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Essex&lt;/span&gt;. Defence Secretary Des Browne said, “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;I am deeply saddened&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Five Afghan troops were also killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nato forces were hitting back after an ambush on a police convoy.&lt;br /&gt;Afghan and Nato forces used rockets, artillery and airstrikes to smash Taliban positions.&lt;br /&gt;Britain’s death toll in lawless Helmand now stands at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;11&lt;/span&gt; in the last &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;two months&lt;/span&gt; — including five in the Taliban “hotspot” town of Sangin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Meanwhile, troops killed at least 71 insurgents in another battle to protect the country’s main highway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;More than 4,500 of Brit squadies are leading attacks on rebels in Helmand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115616755530000239?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115616755530000239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115616755530000239&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115616755530000239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115616755530000239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/brit-is-20th-para-to-be-killed.html' title='Brit is 20th Para to be Killed'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115601101894485261</id><published>2006-08-19T19:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-19T19:10:18.956+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Israel Accused of Breach</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/sod.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/sod.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lebanon’s Prime Minister accused Israel of violating a UN-brokered ceasefire by sending commandos deep inside Lebanon on Saturday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli special forces landed west of the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek, before one of their officers was killed and two other soldiers were wounded in the gunbattle that ensued.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The landing carried out by the Israeli occupation forces today in the Bekaa was a flagrant violation of the cessation of hostilities announced by the Security Council&lt;/span&gt;,” &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Prime Minister Fuad Saniora&lt;/span&gt; said in a statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the Israeli army said its commandos entered Lebanon to "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;interfere with terror activity against Israel&lt;/span&gt;" which it claimed included the smuggling of arms from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mr Saniora&lt;/span&gt; added that he had complained to a UN delegation that visited him Saturday, and would take up the matter with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Annan&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said he spoke with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Annan&lt;/span&gt; by telephone late Friday, to complain about Israeli warplanes repeatedly entering Lebanese airspace since the ceasefire took effect on Monday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115601101894485261?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115601101894485261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115601101894485261&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115601101894485261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115601101894485261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/israel-accused-of-breach.html' title='Israel Accused of Breach'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115586872124206738</id><published>2006-08-18T03:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T04:17:38.996+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Religion of Peace?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/stoning-still.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/stoning-still.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The link below is actual footage of individuals being stoned to death by fellow Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is quite graphic but an interesting insight into the 'religion of peace' as Muslims claim it to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/video/stoning_video_100kbps.wmv"&gt;&lt;color=darkred&gt;Please click here for the Stoning footage&lt;/color&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This footage was released from the 'Apostates of Islam' website, which is produced by ex Muslims who wish to spread the REAL truth about the so called 'Religion of Peace', Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You'll find this fascinating site &lt;a href="http://www.apostatesofislam.com/index.htm"&gt;&lt;color=darkred&gt; by clicking here.&lt;/colour&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How long before this becomes a common practice in the UK???&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115586872124206738?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115586872124206738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115586872124206738&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115586872124206738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115586872124206738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/religion-of-peace.html' title='Religion of Peace?'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115584952082516051</id><published>2006-08-17T22:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T22:18:40.830+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Terror Detectives Find Bomb Kit</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/wood.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/wood.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Police probing an alleged plot to bring down an airline have found a suitcase containing items which could be used to construct a bomb, the BBC has learned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Officers have been searching a piece of land called &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;King's Wood&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;High Wycombe&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Buckinghamshire&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A police source told the BBC the case contained "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;verything you would need to make an improvised device&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A police spokeswoman said some 49 residential and business premises and one area of woodland had been searched in connection with the inquiry.&lt;br /&gt;She said of that total, 36 searches had finished and 14 remained ongoing, including the search at the wood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A district judge has granted anti-terror officers an extra seven days to question 21 suspects, and an extra five days to question two. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The 23 suspects in custody in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt; were arrested in raids in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;High Wycombe&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Buckinghamshire&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Birmingham&lt;/span&gt; last week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Under the 2006 Terrorism Act the maximum period someone suspected of terrorist activity can be held without charge is 28 days, subject to regular court approval.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It is believed up to 17 people are being held in Pakistan over the alleged plot with two 'British' nationals of Pakistani descent among them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pakistani officials said one of the 'Britons', &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Rashid Rauf&lt;/span&gt;, was believed to have links to&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; al-Qaeda&lt;/span&gt;, but they released no details about the other 'Briton'.&lt;br /&gt;Mr &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Rauf&lt;/span&gt; is believed to have played a pivotal role in planning the operation, as well as being the go-between between al-Qaeda and the alleged plotters in Britain.&lt;br /&gt;According to the Associated Press new agency, Pakistani officials believe he was the planner of the alleged attacks and recruited people to take part.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115584952082516051?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115584952082516051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115584952082516051&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115584952082516051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115584952082516051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/terror-detectives-find-bomb-kit.html' title='Terror Detectives Find Bomb Kit'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115584901996134891</id><published>2006-08-17T22:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T22:21:03.773+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fear of Hezbollah Re-Arming</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/hassan_nasrallah_bodyguards.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/hassan_nasrallah_bodyguards.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Israeli's Foreign Minister &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Tzipi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Livni&lt;/span&gt; yesterday urged the world to make sure &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Hezbollah &lt;/span&gt;did not re-arm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Israel fears the ceasefire will allow the Lebanese terror group to build up its weapons. In a speech to US Jewish groups, Ms Livni said, “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The war is not over yet&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile Hezbollah leaders insisted it has the right to attack any Israeli forces still on Lebanese soil.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sheikh Nabil Qawuq &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;said&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Israeli tanks in the south is an aggression and the resistance reserves its right to face such aggression&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Israelis are due to leave southern Lebanon in the next ten days after a Lebanese/UN peacekeeping force replaces them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115584901996134891?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115584901996134891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115584901996134891&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115584901996134891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115584901996134891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/fear-of-hezbollah-re-arming.html' title='Fear of Hezbollah Re-Arming'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115584863515219646</id><published>2006-08-17T22:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T22:03:55.163+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Breaking News: Three Bombers Hunted</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A 'British' Muslim is being hunted in Pakistan in connection with the foiled jet bomb plot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Authorities there are also trying to trace an Eritrean national and a Pakistani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;All three are suspected of having been in contact with plotters who wanted to blow up US-bound flights from the UK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;No further details about the trio have been released.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115584863515219646?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115584863515219646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115584863515219646&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115584863515219646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115584863515219646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/breaking-news-three-bombers-hunted.html' title='Breaking News: Three Bombers Hunted'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115573278126748292</id><published>2006-08-16T13:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T13:53:01.283+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Terror Suspects' Deadline Nears</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/coppers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/coppers.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Police investigating an alleged bomb plot on flights from the UK to the US are expected to ask for extra time to question the suspects being held.&lt;br /&gt;The period for which detectives can question 23 of the 24 people in custody expires on Wednesday, but the police can ask judges for an extension.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, further details have emerged about a British-born suspect arrested in Pakistan over the plot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Rashid Rauf&lt;/span&gt; is believed to have played a key role and liaised with al-Qaeda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Twenty-three of the 24 people in custody were arrested in raids in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;High Wycombe&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Buckinghamshire&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Birmingham&lt;/span&gt; last week. The 24th was arrested in the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Thames Valley&lt;/span&gt; area on Tuesday.&lt;br /&gt;Searches are continuing at a number of addresses and parts of a wood in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;High Wycombe&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;At private hearings via video link, lawyers for the police will produce further evidence and argue for an extra seven days' custody for those they want to continue investigating.&lt;br /&gt;Under the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;2006 Terrorism Act&lt;/span&gt; the maximum period someone suspected of terrorist activity can be held for is 28 days. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The brother of one of the suspects arrested over the alleged liquid bomb plot insisted that he had no involvement in terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Amjad Sarwar&lt;/span&gt; told Channel 4 News that his brother &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Assad&lt;/span&gt; was innocent.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;There is no way he could have anything to do with terrorism. He condemns terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;He's always talking about bin Laden being a terrorist and the Iraq war - they're all terrorists. So he condemns all that&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In Pakistan, it is believed up to 17 people are being held over the alleged plot, including two British nationals of Pakistani descent.&lt;br /&gt;The Pakistan government said one of the Britons, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Rashid Rauf&lt;/span&gt;, is believed to have links to al-Qaeda. No details are known about the other Briton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mr Rauf&lt;/span&gt; is believed to have played a pivotal role in planning the operation, as well as being the go-between between al-Qaeda and the alleged plotters in Britain.&lt;br /&gt;Pakistani intelligence believe it was the Briton's role to plan and co-ordinate the operation on behalf of a senior al-Qaeda figure, described as the plot's mastermind, the BBC has learned.&lt;br /&gt;It has also emerged that Britain wanted to delay making arrests to enable further tracking of the suspects, but Pakistan wanted to move in immediately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Pakistani Foreign Ministry has said it has not received a request from Britain for the extradition of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mr Rauf&lt;/span&gt;, but the option still remained open.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Speaking after a meeting with EU ministers on Wednesday to consider their response to the alleged London plot, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Home Secretary John Reid&lt;/span&gt; said the countries of Europe must stand together to "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;evolve our reaction&lt;/span&gt;" to the "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;evolving threat&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The EU, indeed the wider world, is now confronted by a form of terrorism that is unconstrained in its evil intention&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Given the means of destruction on a massive scale which is available through modern technology - biological, chemical and other means - it is virtually unconstrained in its capacity and its ability to do immense harm, death and destruction&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;Practical measures on improving transport security, the "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;formal coming together&lt;/span&gt;" of intelligence services and the "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;whole discussion of European Islam&lt;/span&gt;" were among issues discussed, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mr Reid&lt;/span&gt; added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Conservative Party leader &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;David Cameron&lt;/span&gt; has criticised the way the government is dealing with the threat of Islamic extremism.&lt;br /&gt;He criticised a funding freeze planned for the Home Office, and said intercept evidence should be allowed in courts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Meanwhile flights are slowly returning to normal, with BA planning to operate 90% of its flights on Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;However, it is still searching for 5,000 pieces of luggage which have been misplaced in the confusion of the last few days at Heathrow alone.&lt;br /&gt;And authorities at Gatwick airport are investigating how a&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 12-year-old boy&lt;/span&gt; managed to board a flight without a ticket or passport.&lt;br /&gt;He got on the flight bound for Portugal on Monday morning despite the high state of alert across all airports. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115573278126748292?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115573278126748292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115573278126748292&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115573278126748292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115573278126748292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/terror-suspects-deadline-nears.html' title='Terror Suspects&apos; Deadline Nears'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115564576894380565</id><published>2006-08-15T13:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-15T13:42:49.840+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Race Profiling Demands</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/CentreSlice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/CentreSlice.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Muslims could face extra security checks in moves to target airport screening on passengers posing the biggest terrorist threat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The profiling technique would pick out people behaving suspiciously, those with an unusual travel pattern and people from certain ethnic or religious backgrounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Transport chiefs have discussed a new system with airport operators, including BAA — but it is set to outrage British Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Security experts believe profiling young Muslim men is a more effective way of spotting potential terrorists than random searches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ex-Scotland Yard chief&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Lord Stevens&lt;/span&gt; said the controversial move would help reduce check-in chaos.&lt;br /&gt;Aviation security expert &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Philip Baum&lt;/span&gt; added, “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;If we do not introduce some form of profiling we will be continuing to look for needles in a haystack&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;As a consequence the air industry could remain in crisis&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ex-BA boss &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sir Rod Eddington&lt;/span&gt; has said it is irrational to subject a 75-year-old gran to the same checks as a young man who paid for his ticket in cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Those for the move claim similar techniques have made Israeli airports the safest in the world.&lt;br /&gt;But Muslim leaders in Britain branded the plans “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;an extreme form of stereotyping&lt;/span&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari&lt;/span&gt;, Secretary General of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Muslim Council of Britain&lt;/span&gt;, said targeting people on ethnic grounds would be racist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;AN Islamic extremist last night warned that Britain faces a terror attack on the scale of 9/11.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Anjem Choudary&lt;/span&gt;, 39 , former head of radical group &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;al-Muhajiroun&lt;/span&gt; , said planned atrocities will succeed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115564576894380565?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115564576894380565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115564576894380565&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115564576894380565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115564576894380565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/race-profiling-demands.html' title='Race Profiling Demands'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115558599107118667</id><published>2006-08-14T20:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-14T21:06:31.083+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Terror Paedophile Brothers Banquet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/paedobrothers.4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/400/paedobrothers.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Islamic brothers at the centre of the Forest Gate &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;terror raid&lt;/span&gt; and their family stuffed their faces with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;£1,300&lt;/span&gt; of food in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;24 hours&lt;/span&gt;, at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;taxpayers’ expense&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Their hotel bill came to more than &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;£50,000&lt;/span&gt;, including&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; £800&lt;/span&gt; in a day on &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;phone calls&lt;/span&gt;, as they finally moved back to their &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;East London home&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Shaven-headed &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mohammed Abdul Kahar&lt;/span&gt;, 23, and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Abul Koyair&lt;/span&gt;, 21, were arrested on June 2 by&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; anti-terror police&lt;/span&gt; looking for a&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; chemical device&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Kahar&lt;/span&gt; was shot in the shoulder by accident when his brother &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;attacked&lt;/span&gt; an armed officer, who's weapon went off in the raid at their home in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Lansdowne Road&lt;/span&gt;. The brothers were released without charge, after spending a week in custody, when no device was found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Since then the pair and their family have been put up in posh and expensive &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;hotels &lt;/span&gt;by the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Metropolitan Police&lt;/span&gt; as the house was stripped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;They initially stayed at the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;central London&lt;/span&gt;, but after &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;complaining&lt;/span&gt; they were transferred to the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;five-star Crowne Plaza Hotel&lt;/span&gt; next to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Buckingham Palace&lt;/span&gt;, where they ran up &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;huge bills&lt;/span&gt; while gorging themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Kahar&lt;/span&gt; is expected to seek up to&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; £500,000&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;compensation&lt;/span&gt; after being shot in the raid. He has since been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;charged&lt;/span&gt; over &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;paedophile images&lt;/span&gt; found on a computer &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;at the address&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The brothers and family left the hotel at 8am on Saturday when they were driven away in two &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;hired people carriers&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115558599107118667?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115558599107118667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115558599107118667&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115558599107118667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115558599107118667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/terror-paedophile-brothers-banquet.html' title='Terror Paedophile Brothers Banquet'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115547030906578512</id><published>2006-08-13T12:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-13T12:58:29.076+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Reid Tells of 'Four Terror Plots'</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/reid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/reid.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Home Secretary &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;John Reid&lt;/span&gt; has revealed that "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;at least four major plots&lt;/span&gt;" have been thwarted since the 7th July attacks in London last year.&lt;br /&gt;Mr Reid said the government believes that the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;first &lt;/span&gt;al-Qaeda plot in the UK was in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;2000 in Birmingham&lt;/span&gt;, preceding the war in Iraq and the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;9/11 bombings&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;He told the BBC's News 24 Sunday show that current security measures at UK airports would be "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;time limited&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Police are holding 23 people over an alleged plot to blow up several planes.&lt;br /&gt;The home secretary said he thought it was right to keep Britain at the highest possible level of terrorist alert.&lt;br /&gt;But he acknowledged that the "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;terribly inconvenient regime&lt;/span&gt;" of restrictions imposed on carrying hand luggage was affecting airlines and the travelling public.&lt;br /&gt;He said those limits were being reviewed but any new regime would still need to ensure safety.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;We think we have the main suspects in this particular plot. I have to be honest and say on the basis of what we know, there could be others out there - so the threat of a terrorist attack in the UK is still very substantial&lt;/span&gt;," he told the BBC programme. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;While the police and security forces were doing their job with 100% effort, he said: "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;We can never guarantee 100% success&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;This has been an ongoing threat, it is a chronic one and it is a severe one&lt;/span&gt;," he added.&lt;br /&gt;Even if the threat level was reduced to "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;severe&lt;/span&gt;", Mr Reid said it was "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;highly likely there would be another terrorist attempt and that is one thing of which we can be sure&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;Asked whether the four major plots he revealed could have caused a major loss of life, Mr Reid said, "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;In my view yes, on the information I have received&lt;/span&gt;." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Home Secretary was also asked about a report in Sunday's Observer newspaper which said that "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;up to two dozen&lt;/span&gt;" terror investigations were operating across Britain.&lt;br /&gt;Mr Reid said, "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;I'm not going to confirm an exact number but I wouldn't deny that that would indicate the number of major conspiracies that we are trying to look at&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;There would be more which are not at the centre of our considerations and there may be more that we don't know about at all&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;Responding to questions on whether the government would once again push for a 90-day detention of terror suspects, the home secretary said the current situation did not represent "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;a good time&lt;/span&gt;" to look at such measures. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;But he said it was his own view that 90 days was what police required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He was also asked his opinion on a letter written by a group of British Muslim leaders who believed the UK's foreign policy could be linked to the terror threat.&lt;br /&gt;Dr Reid said such a belief was a "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;dreadful misjudgement that foreign policy of this country should be shaped in part, or in whole, under the threat of terrorism activity&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Shadow home secretary David Davis, speaking on Sky News, also criticised the letter.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;It&lt;/span&gt; (foreign policy) &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;might be part of the catalyst, but to explain this is not to excuse it&lt;/span&gt;," he said.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;There are plenty of people with legitimate arguments with the government's foreign policy on Iraq, in Afghanistan in Lebanon and the Middle East but none of them take the stance of attempting to murder many thousands of their fellow citizens&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115547030906578512?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115547030906578512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115547030906578512&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115547030906578512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115547030906578512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/reid-tells-of-four-terror-plots.html' title='Reid Tells of &apos;Four Terror Plots&apos;'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115539128519675993</id><published>2006-08-12T14:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T15:01:25.200+01:00</updated><title type='text'>US Soldiers Killed in Afghan Battle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/afahm.jpg"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 128px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 148px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="113" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/afahm.jpg" width="46" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;United States-led forces in Afghanistan say three of their soldiers have been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;killed &lt;/span&gt;in fighting with taliban militants in north-eastern Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Two other soldiers were wounded in the clashes in Nuristan province - officials have not yet disclosed the nationality of those involved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;US-led troops on Friday raided a building in the south-east, killing three suspected al-Qaeda fighters.&lt;br /&gt;Militants have been stepping up attacks on government and foreign forces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The soldiers killed and wounded today fought against extremists who oppose the rights of women, murder the innocent and harbour terrorists as they did during the Taleban regime&lt;/span&gt;," US Army Brig Gen James Terry said of Friday's fighting in Nuristan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nuristan has seen fierce clashes in recent days. US-led troops said they killed 15 insurgents on Wednesday who were trying to attack an army base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;US forces are pushing up to the northernmost points along the Afghan-Pakistan border in an attempt to crush militants, the Associated Press news agency reports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afghanistan has seen a surge in violence this year, particularly in the south where taliban fighters have increased their attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Three suspected al-Qaeda members were killed and three others detained in the eastern province of Khost during an operation by coalition forces, a US military statement said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The raid was aimed at an al-Qaeda militant who was linked to a series of bombings, the statement said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A suicide bombing on Friday in the southern province of Kandahar is now known to have killed a Canadian soldier serving with Nato-led forces. He was the seventh Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan this month.&lt;br /&gt;Nato's 8,000 soldiers took over control from US forces in the south on 31 July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The soldiers, under the umbrella of Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), are in six provinces in the south - Day Kundi, Helmand, Kandahar, Nimroz, Uruzgan and Zabul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115539128519675993?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115539128519675993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115539128519675993&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115539128519675993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115539128519675993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/us-soldiers-killed-in-afghan-battle.html' title='US Soldiers Killed in Afghan Battle'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115539060674463346</id><published>2006-08-12T14:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T14:50:06.760+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Police Quiz Terror Plot Suspects</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/stu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/stu.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;"&gt;                                     Muslim Covert Suspect Don Stewart-Whyte changed his name to Abdul Waheed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Anti-terror police are continuing to quiz &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt; people arrested over an alleged plot to blow up &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;transatlantic jets&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Met Police has been granted warrants for the further detention of the suspects until &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;next Wednesday&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A hearing regarding the detention of another individual was &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;adjourned until Monday&lt;/span&gt;, and one person has been released with no further action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The suspects were held following raids in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;High Wycombe&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bucks&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Birmingham&lt;/span&gt;, early on &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Thursday&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The person whose warrant hearing was adjourned until Monday will remain in custody over the weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those held are suspected of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;involvement&lt;/span&gt; in a plot to blow up airliners travelling from the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;UK&lt;/span&gt; to the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;US&lt;/span&gt;, possibly using&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; liquid explosives&lt;/span&gt; hidden in hand luggage. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Airport security has been stepped up in both countries, with stringent luggage searches and restrictions on the carrying of liquids on board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Although services are beginning to return to normal, travellers are being warned to check with airlines before they set off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Officials in Pakistan said security forces in the country had also arrested&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; two British men of Pakistani origin&lt;/span&gt; in connection with the alleged plot, who were picked up in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Lahore&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Karachi&lt;/span&gt; last week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Pakistan Foreign Ministry has identified one of the men as &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Rashid Rauf&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;There are indications of an Afghanistan-based Al-Qaeda connection&lt;/span&gt;," a spokesman said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A Pakistani security official told Reuters he had been put under surveillance after Britain had tipped off Islamabad that he was in Pakistan.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;He has been staying here for quite some time and he has been under strict surveillance since then&lt;/span&gt;," the unnamed official added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Rashid Rauf&lt;/span&gt; is thought to be &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;related&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Tayib Rauf&lt;/span&gt;, 22, who was arrested in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Birmingham&lt;/span&gt;. He is among the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;19 suspects&lt;/span&gt; who have had their &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;assets frozen&lt;/span&gt; by the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bank of England&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Britain's security threat level remains at '&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;critical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt; and investigations are continuing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Detectives are still searching properties where the arrests took place. Officers have also seized computer equipment from &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;three internet cafes&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Berkshire&lt;/span&gt; - one in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Reading&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;two&lt;/span&gt; others in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Slough&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Speaking to chief constables on Saturday, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Home Secretary&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;John Reid&lt;/span&gt; said no-one should imagine that the recent arrests ended the current terror threat.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;This isn't a time for complacency or self-congratulation. As I have said all along, no-one should be under any illusion that the threat ended with the recent arrests. It didn't. The threat, as well as our efforts, is ongoing&lt;/span&gt;," he said.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The initial targets - the main suspects - have been successfully apprehended, but all of us know that this investigation hasn't ended. I know there is a huge amount to be done and that presents enormous challenges&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;So, we're not yet at the stage where we can or should stop searching. That is why the alert level remains at critical as a precaution&lt;/span&gt;." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Meanwhile, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;British Muslim groups&lt;/span&gt; have written an open letter to the prime minister calling for "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;urgent&lt;/span&gt;" changes to the government's foreign policy, because its stance on Iraq and the Middle East is putting civilians at increased risk in the UK and abroad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sadiq Khan&lt;/span&gt;, one of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;three MPs&lt;/span&gt; to sign the letter along with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;three peers&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;38 groups&lt;/span&gt;, said "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;a sense of injustice&lt;/span&gt;" caused by the current approach "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;plays into the hands of extremists&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Responding to the letter a Downing Street spokesman said, "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;We should always remember that the terrorism affecting the West today has blighted Muslim countries for several decades&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;It certainly pre-dated our decision to support democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq and of course the September 11 attacks. Our foreign policy is focused on supporting the people of those countries in their desire to live in a democracy just as we enjoy in the UK&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115539060674463346?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115539060674463346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115539060674463346&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115539060674463346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115539060674463346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/police-quiz-terror-plot-suspects.html' title='Police Quiz Terror Plot Suspects'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115520536975123841</id><published>2006-08-10T11:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T11:28:32.450+01:00</updated><title type='text'>TERROR IN THE UK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/_41416875_stanstedphil203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 227px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 186px" height="170" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/_41416875_stanstedphil203.jpg" width="203" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;mass murder on an unimaginable scale&lt;/span&gt;" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;10 aircraft&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Police were searching premises with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;21 people&lt;/span&gt; in custody after arrests in the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt; area and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;West Midlands&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;High security is causing delays at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;all UK airports&lt;/span&gt;. The threat level to the UK has been raised by MI5 to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;critical&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;According to MI5's website, critical threat level, which is the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;highest&lt;/span&gt;, means "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;an attack is expected imminently and indicates an extremely high level of threat to the UK&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Heathrow Airport has been&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; closed&lt;/span&gt; to all incoming flights that are not already in the air, while several outbound services have been cancelled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The airport is crammed with thousands of passengers, while at Stansted more than 2,000 people are queuing to pass through customs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Paul Stephenson&lt;/span&gt; said the alleged plotters had intended "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;mass murder on an unimaginable scale&lt;/span&gt;". "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;We are confident that we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction and to commit, quite frankly, mass murder&lt;/span&gt;," he said.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;We believe that the terrorists' aim was to smuggle explosives on to aeroplanes in hand luggage and to detonate these in flight. We also believe that the intended targets were flights from the United Kingdom to the United States of America&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;I can confirm that a significant number of people are currently in custody and the operation is ongoing&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; majority&lt;/span&gt; of the arrests were in&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; London&lt;/span&gt; with some in the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Thames Valley&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Birmingham&lt;/span&gt;, he said.&lt;br /&gt;Police had spoken to a "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;good number of community leaders to make them aware that a major operation was under way&lt;/span&gt;," he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;BBC sources&lt;/span&gt; the "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;principal characters&lt;/span&gt;" suspected of being involved in the plot were &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;British-born&lt;/span&gt;. Arrests were made in&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; High Wycombe&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Birmingham&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;BBC home affairs correspondent &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Andy Tighe&lt;/span&gt; said police sources had told him they had found "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;interesting items&lt;/span&gt;" which were being examined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US Department of Homeland Security increased the threat level applied to US-bound commercial flights originating in the UK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Home Office confirmed there had been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;three meetings overnight&lt;/span&gt; and on Thursday morning of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Cabinet's emergency committee&lt;/span&gt;, Cobra, chaired by Home Secretary &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;John Reid&lt;/span&gt;, to discuss the terror alert&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A spokesman for Number 10 said Tony Blair had briefed &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;US President George Bush&lt;/span&gt; on the situation during the night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;All&lt;/span&gt; passengers were &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;banned&lt;/span&gt; from taking &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;hand luggage&lt;/span&gt; onto flights, while the government warned of delays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BBC home affairs correspondent&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Daniel Sandford&lt;/span&gt; said he did not think the police &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;believed &lt;/span&gt;an attack was &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;imminent&lt;/span&gt; now there had been arrests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Joe Lynam&lt;/span&gt;, a BBC journalist at Gatwick,"&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The reason for raising the threat level is in case there is some other sub-plot, back-up plot around this that the police aren't aware of&lt;/span&gt;," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BBC security correspondent &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Gordon Corera&lt;/span&gt; said given that most&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; liquids&lt;/span&gt; were being &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;banned &lt;/span&gt;from flights it suggested the suspected plot involved "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;some kind of liquid explosive&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;He also said the plot had an "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;international dimension&lt;/span&gt;", while the investigation had involved the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;CIA&lt;/span&gt;. "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The Americans have definitely been involved for quite some time&lt;/span&gt;," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Prime Minister, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Tony Blair&lt;/span&gt; is on holiday in the Caribbean, but Downing Street said the police operation was undertaken with his full support and he had been "&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;in constant touch&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The current threat level is assessed as critical as of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;10th August 2006&lt;/span&gt; - this means that an attack is expected&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; imminently&lt;/span&gt; and indicates an &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;extremely high level&lt;/span&gt; of threat to the UK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Passengers are only allowed to take on board only the barest essentials including passports and wallets which will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115520536975123841?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115520536975123841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115520536975123841&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115520536975123841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115520536975123841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/terror-in-uk.html' title='TERROR IN THE UK'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115512722445644562</id><published>2006-08-09T13:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T13:44:53.673+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Muslim Terrorist Pair in Death Taunt to Soldiers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/paedobrothers.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/400/paedobrothers.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The two Muslim brothers at the centre of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Forest Gate&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;terror probe&lt;/span&gt; have been accused of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;screaming &lt;/span&gt;at soldiers, “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;We hope you DIE in Iraq&lt;/span&gt;.” The duo also pretended to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;machine-gun&lt;/span&gt; guardsmen outside their barracks near Buckingham Palace, it is alleged. Sickened squaddies also claimed that the pair then &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;spat&lt;/span&gt; at them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mohammed Abul Kahar&lt;/span&gt;, 23 and brother &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Abul Koyair&lt;/span&gt;, 20, are now being investigated over the claims — with &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;CCTV footage&lt;/span&gt; from the area being checked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Last night a Met Police spokeswoman stated, “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;We are investigating an allegation of harassment outside Wellington Barracks at 10pm on August 1. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;There have been no arrests made so far&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The alleged rant comes as British casualties mount in Iraq, where &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;115 of Our Boys have died&lt;/span&gt;. The three Welsh Guardsmen were on duty at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Wellington Barracks&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;, when the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;insults&lt;/span&gt; were hurled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One Whitehall source said of the brothers, “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The guardsmen knew exactly who they were because they pass by very often. There have been various incidents in the past but never this bad. The soldiers showed great restraint and just showed them the steely eye&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The brothers, who wear traditional Muslim dress, are staying at&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; taxpayers’ expense&lt;/span&gt; at the luxury &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;£260-a-night Crowne Plaza Hotel&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Scotland Yard has already spent more than &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;£30,000&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;public money&lt;/span&gt; on their hotel bills and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;living expenses&lt;/span&gt; since armed police stormed their East London home on June 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kahar was accidently shot in a scuffle while &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;anti-terror officers&lt;/span&gt; looked for a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;chemical device&lt;/span&gt;, which has still not been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;found&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Police agreed to place the family in&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; luxury accommodation&lt;/span&gt; while their house is being repaired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kahar is being &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;investigated&lt;/span&gt; over suspicion of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;possessing child porn&lt;/span&gt; after '&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;suspect images&lt;/span&gt;' were allegedly found on a computer seized in the raid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115512722445644562?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115512722445644562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115512722445644562&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115512722445644562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115512722445644562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/muslim-terrorist-pair-in-death-taunt.html' title='Muslim Terrorist Pair in Death Taunt to Soldiers'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115512136663443758</id><published>2006-08-09T11:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T13:50:29.883+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Israeli Death Strike On Village</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/blood.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 197px" height="255" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/blood.jpg" width="302" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Israeli air strikes killed &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;14 people&lt;/span&gt; yesterday in a village that was busy burying &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;15&lt;/span&gt; victims of a bombing raid just &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;24 hours earlier&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;23 people&lt;/span&gt; were injured in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ghaziyeh&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;southern Lebanon&lt;/span&gt;, as 1,500 mourners scattered into the streets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israelis said they were targeting the home of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sheik Mustafa Khalifeh&lt;/span&gt;, a Hezbollah cleric.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier at least &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;30 people&lt;/span&gt; died as &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Israeli bombs&lt;/span&gt; wiped out three blocks of flats in a terrorist stronghold in Beirut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The huge blast was the closest to the centre of the city since Israel launched its offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon nearly a month ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Residents of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Shiyah district&lt;/span&gt; thought they were safe because they bordered the city’s Christian old town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, a proposed UN peace deal will be delayed while ministers of Arab nations appear before the Security Council. They want Israel to withdraw from Lebanon once fighting ends.&lt;br /&gt;Lebanon says the current US-French resolution favours Israel — and has suggested sending 15,000 of its own troops into the war zone.&lt;br /&gt;A resolution could be decided today — but there will be no vote until tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;Hezbollah will reject any truce that leaves Israeli troops in Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel insists it will not withdraw until it is guaranteed Hezbollah rocket fire will stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115512136663443758?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115512136663443758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115512136663443758&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115512136663443758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115512136663443758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/israeli-death-strike-on-village.html' title='Israeli Death Strike On Village'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115503836218596602</id><published>2006-08-08T12:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-08T13:03:01.813+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Garden Searched for Children's Remains</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/paedos%20garden.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/paedos%20garden.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Police are searching for &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;human remains&lt;/span&gt; at a south London house where a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;convicted paedophile&lt;/span&gt; once lived.&lt;br /&gt;Officers acted on an &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;anonymous letter&lt;/span&gt; claiming remains linked to events more than 30 years ago were buried there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A forensic archaeologist is among a team which will dig up the garden in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Walton Green&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;in New Addington, Croydon&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The paedophile, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Leslie Ford-Thrussell&lt;/span&gt;, 72, is currently serving a 12-year jail term for 36 offences including seven counts of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;rape&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Among the offences was one count of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;gross indecency with a child&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ford-Thrussell&lt;/span&gt;, who was convicted in 2004, also admitted to taking and making &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;obscene images&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Police said he had not been questioned about the latest investigation. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The search led by Croydon CID began on Monday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;So far no arrests have been made, but police said the author of the letter had been identified.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Next-door neighbour and mother-of-two &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Nicola Nunn&lt;/span&gt; said she had thought Ford-Thrussell was a "&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;very&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;friendly, nice old man&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"We obviously knew about his conviction but this is something else altogether," &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;she said&lt;/span&gt;. "I think about my two babies and it just scares me."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The most recent tenants moved out about three months ago leaving the council-owned property empty. They are &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;not connected&lt;/span&gt; to the operation, police said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Officers delivered leaflets to local people informing them the operation may take several days, offering reassurance and asking them to contact police with any concerns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Scotland Yard would not confirm what specialist equipment would be used in the survey, expected to begin on Wednesday morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A police spokesman stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"The Metropolitan Police has wide experience of serious crime investigation and access to a diverse range of specialist support, internally and externally."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115503836218596602?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115503836218596602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115503836218596602&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115503836218596602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115503836218596602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/garden-searched-for-childrens-remains.html' title='Garden Searched for Children&apos;s Remains'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115495223176868427</id><published>2006-08-07T12:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T13:03:51.780+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Muslim Police Chief 'Warns' of  Discrimination</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/muslimofficer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/muslimofficer.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Britain's most senior &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Muslim police officer&lt;/span&gt; is to tell a conference that Muslims are being &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;discriminated&lt;/span&gt; against by law enforcement agencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Met Police Assistant Commissioner&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Tarique Ghaffur&lt;/span&gt; will be speaking to the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;National Black Police Association&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He will say stop-and-search powers and some profiling tend to be based more on physical appearance than intelligence. He will also call for an independent judicial review into why some young Muslims are becoming radicalised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The conference is taking place in Manchester until Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Guardian newspaper, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mr Ghaffur&lt;/span&gt; will tell delegates, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"Not only has anti-terrorism and security legislation been tightened across many European countries with the effect of indirectly discriminating against Muslims. But other equally unwanted practices have also emerged, including 'passenger profiling' as well as increased stop and search and arrest under terrorism legislation.&lt;br /&gt;They're increasingly concerned about the disproportionate impact of anti-terror laws, not just by the police but by other law enforcement agencies. There is a very real danger that the counter-terrorism label is also being used by other law enforcement agencies to the effect that there is a real risk of criminalising minority communities. The impact of this will be that just at the time we need the confidence and trust of these communities, they may retreat inside themselves."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115495223176868427?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115495223176868427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115495223176868427&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115495223176868427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115495223176868427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/muslim-police-chief-warns-of.html' title='Muslim Police Chief &apos;Warns&apos; of  Discrimination'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115487679993999605</id><published>2006-08-06T15:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-06T16:06:40.040+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Iran Ignores Nuclear Resolution</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/nuc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/nuc.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Iran has vowed to pursue its &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;nuclear &lt;/span&gt;programme, in its first official response to last week's UN resolution urging it to curb nuclear activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Chief nuclear negotiator &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ali Larijani&lt;/span&gt; stated Tehran would continue to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;develop nuclear energy&lt;/span&gt; within the framework of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Non-Proliferation Treaty&lt;/span&gt; (NPT).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Last week the Security Council said Iran faced possible &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;sanctions&lt;/span&gt; if it did not stop uranium enrichment this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Some members fear Iran may use the technology to build nuclear weapons but Iran claims its motives are peaceful. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"Our activities respect the Non-Proliferation Treaty... so we will not accept the suspension [of uranium enrichment],"&lt;/span&gt; Mr Larijani stated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"They should know that such resolutions will not affect our determination. We will pursue the nuclear rights of Iranians which are enshrined in the NPT."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mr Larijani also warned that sanctions would hurt the West more, leaving people there&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; shivering from cold&lt;/span&gt; during the winter because of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;higher &lt;/span&gt;oil prices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The UN Security Council passed &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;resolution 1696&lt;/span&gt; by 14 votes to one on 31 July.&lt;br /&gt;It gives Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment and open its nuclear programme to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;international inspections&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;If Tehran&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; fails&lt;/span&gt; to do so, the council will consider economic sanctions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115487679993999605?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115487679993999605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115487679993999605&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115487679993999605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115487679993999605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/iran-ignores-nuclear-resolution.html' title='Iran Ignores Nuclear Resolution'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115478868308514886</id><published>2006-08-05T15:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T15:40:36.433+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nato Soldier Dies in Crash</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/afghanistan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/afghanistan.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One soldier from &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Nato-led forces&lt;/span&gt; in Afghanistan has &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;died&lt;/span&gt; when an armoured jeep crashed in the south of the country, a Nato statement says.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Three other soldiers&lt;/span&gt; from the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;International Security Assistance Force&lt;/span&gt; (Isaf) were &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;injured&lt;/span&gt; in the incident in the province of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Kandahar&lt;/span&gt;. The injured soldiers were airlifted to a local army hospital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The crash was not the result of hostile action, the statement says.&lt;br /&gt;It says the soldiers were accompanying a supply convoy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nato forces formally took control of military operations in southern Afghanistan from the US-led coalition which overthrew the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Taliban&lt;/span&gt; in 2001.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115478868308514886?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115478868308514886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115478868308514886&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115478868308514886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115478868308514886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/nato-soldier-dies-in-crash.html' title='Nato Soldier Dies in Crash'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115469488584682789</id><published>2006-08-04T13:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-04T13:36:26.533+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Afghani Plane Hijackers to Stay in UK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/Boeing%20727-200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/200/Boeing%20727-200.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;John Reid&lt;/span&gt;, the Home Secretary has &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;lost&lt;/span&gt; his court appeal battle to remove the right to work in the UK of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;nine Afghan hijackers&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Home Office argued that, although the nine could not be deported, immigration law allowed him to impose &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'temporary admission'&lt;/span&gt; status on them and curb their freedom while they remained in the country. But the Master of the Rolls, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sir Anthony Clarke&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Lord Justice Brooke &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Lord Justice Neuberger&lt;/span&gt;, today dismissed the Home Secretary’s appeal against an earlier High Court ruling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nine Afghans&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; hijacked&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Boeing 727&lt;/span&gt; on an internal flight in Afghanistan in February 2000 and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;forced&lt;/span&gt; the crew to fly to Stansted in Essex. Although they were refused asylum, a panel of adjudicators ruled in 2004 that, under Article 3 of the European Convention on &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Human Rights&lt;/span&gt;, they&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; could not&lt;/span&gt; be sent back to Afghanistan because their lives would be endangered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In December 2001 all nine were convicted of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;hijacking, false imprisonment, possessing firearms with intent to cause fear of violence and possessing explosives&lt;/span&gt;. In June 2003 their convictions were &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;quashed&lt;/span&gt; by the Appeal Court, which found they had been acting under &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'duress'&lt;/span&gt;. Following a public outcry over the nine being granted a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'hijackers’charter'&lt;/span&gt;, successive Government ministers attempted to restrict their rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were eventually granted only temporary admission last November by the then Home Secretary, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Charles Clarke&lt;/span&gt;. But the Home Office suffered an embarrassing High Court &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;defeat&lt;/span&gt; in May this year when &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mr Justice Sullivan&lt;/span&gt; ruled that it was unlawful under the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;1971 Immigration Act&lt;/span&gt; to keep the nine on temporary leave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The judge declared they were entitled to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'discretionary leave'&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;enter&lt;/span&gt; and&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; remain&lt;/span&gt; in the UK, subject to review every six months. This allowed the nine to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;work&lt;/span&gt;, possibly &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;claim state benefits&lt;/span&gt;, and support their families in the UK, even though they were not entitled to full refugee status. In contrast, those subjected to temporary admission normally have to rely on state hand outs, cannot work or obtain travel documents, but have to live where they are told, report to the police regularly and remain subject to detention at any time. It was argued during the appeal hearing that the Home Secretary was entitled in law to have a policy of granting only temporary admission to failed asylum seekers who had been allowed to remain in the country on human rights grounds. The nine have 'apologised' to passengers on the flight they hijacked to Stansted for the fear they caused.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Reshad Ahmadi&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Abdul Shohab&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Abdul Ghayur&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Taimur Shah&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Nazzamuddin Mohammidy&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mohammed Kazin&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ali Safi&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mohammed Safi&lt;/span&gt; and&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Mohammed Showaib&lt;/span&gt; say they are educated people who do not want to 'sponge' off the state.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115469488584682789?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115469488584682789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115469488584682789&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115469488584682789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115469488584682789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/afghani-plane-hijackers-to-stay-in-uk.html' title='Afghani Plane Hijackers to Stay in UK'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115464338944992196</id><published>2006-08-03T23:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T23:16:29.460+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kiddie Rapist On The Run</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A suspected &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;child rapist&lt;/span&gt; was on the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;run&lt;/span&gt; last night after a judge astonishingly granted him &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;bail &lt;/span&gt;to attend a funeral unescorted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;David Parry&lt;/span&gt;, 30, had been in custody since June awaiting trial on a charge carrying a maximum life sentence.&lt;br /&gt;But on Monday at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Worcester Crown Court, Judge David McEvoy&lt;/span&gt;  granted him bail to attend the funeral of his partner’s mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The decision prompted shock and fury among Home Office officials, police and prosecutors.&lt;br /&gt;One Whitehall source stated,&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; “I cannot imagine what this judge was thinking. You have an obvious public protection issue given what this individual is charged with. I understand the judge has a reputation as a maverick — but even so this defies belief.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Norman Brennan&lt;/span&gt; of the Victims of Crime Trust blasted, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“Ludicrous decisions such as these lead to a continuing lack of faith in the judiciary.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Judge McEvoy ordered Parry, of Malvern, Worcs, be &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;released&lt;/span&gt;, effectively in his own custody, from &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Blakenhurst Prison&lt;/span&gt; at Redditch at 9am on Tuesday. Under his bail terms Parry, accused of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;attacking a girl under 16&lt;/span&gt;, was meant to report back to the jail at 6pm the same day. He failed to return and a police hunt was launched.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Detective Inspector &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Damian Barratt&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;West Mercia Police&lt;/span&gt; added, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“We are conducting an investigation into the circumstances.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources in the Midlands say prison staff were also outraged by the decision to let Parry out. He was last seen outside the jail getting in a car driven by a woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A Home Office Prison Service spokeswoman commented last night, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“Neither the Prison Service nor Home Office were included in the decision-making process, which was opposed by the Crown Prosecution Service.&lt;br /&gt;The Prison Service only grants leave for a prisoner to attend the funeral of a direct family member.&lt;br /&gt;Prisoners held in Category B prisons like Blakenhurst would normally be escorted to a funeral by at least two officers.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In June, Judge Carol Hagen bailed illegal immigrant &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mohammed Reza Talabi Zemani&lt;/span&gt;, who vanished after being charged with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;rape&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115464338944992196?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115464338944992196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115464338944992196&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115464338944992196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115464338944992196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/kiddie-rapist-on-run.html' title='Kiddie Rapist On The Run'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115464246803129934</id><published>2006-08-03T22:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T23:22:17.116+01:00</updated><title type='text'>'Worst' Paedophile Jailed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/ycc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/ycc.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A 65 year old man was today jailed for 20 years after a 30-year campaign of sexual abuse against young children which the trial judge described as the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;worst&lt;/span&gt; ever to come before the courts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Robert Smith&lt;/span&gt;, of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Scarborough&lt;/span&gt;, was jailed at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;York Crown Court&lt;/span&gt; after pleading guilty to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;42 sex offences&lt;/span&gt;, including &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;rape&lt;/span&gt; against&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 21 children&lt;/span&gt; between 1954 and 1984.&lt;br /&gt;Sentencing Smith, Judge Paul Hoffman stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“If the sentence that is passed results in you dying in prison, that’s no more than you deserve.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The judge told the court that in the law book, Thomas’s Sentencing Encyclopaedia, there was no case &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“that’s as bad as this one”. &lt;/span&gt;The judge also said the case was made even more serious by the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; “sheer scale of wickedness”&lt;/span&gt; and Smith’s&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; “callous regard”&lt;/span&gt; for his victims’ feelings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Smith had showed a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“prolonged and insatiable depravity”&lt;/span&gt; and admitted many&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; more&lt;/span&gt; sex offences against children to probation officers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The judge also stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“Yours is the worst case of its type that I’ve ever encountered in nearly 42 years of criminal practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;It stands apart in its sheer scale of wickedness and your callous disregard for the victims’ feelings. For 30 years you abused the trust placed in you by parents and children alike.&lt;br /&gt;You dominated these children by your presence and behaviour. They were terrified of you and you abused them through fear.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The court heard that the 42 offences lead to some of the victims developing &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;nervous personalities,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; stammers&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;stuttering&lt;/span&gt;. Many were still &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;traumatised&lt;/span&gt;, the judge said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Smith, wearing a grey T-shirt and blue tracksuit bottoms, occasionally shook his head during the sentencing.&lt;br /&gt;As he was led from the court in handcuffs, several of his victims in the packed public gallery shouted &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“Rot in hell”&lt;/span&gt; at the defendant - Smith responded by making a&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; V-sign&lt;/span&gt; with his hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Turning to the public gallery, the judge commented, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“Your outbursts are entirely understandable and I have nothing but sympathy for your suffering.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115464246803129934?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115464246803129934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115464246803129934&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115464246803129934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115464246803129934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/worst-paedophile-jailed.html' title='&apos;Worst&apos; Paedophile Jailed'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115451840599235976</id><published>2006-08-02T12:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T12:35:28.876+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Free lessons For Asians Only</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/driving_school_hampshire.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/driving_school_hampshire.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A race row broke out yesterday after a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Labour council&lt;/span&gt; ran&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; free driving lessons&lt;/span&gt; for Asians &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;only&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The scheme was aimed at 15 to 19-year-olds '&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;from the Asian heritage community&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt; after a local survey showed they were three times more likely to be injured in crashes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Teenagers aged 17 to 19 got free driving lessons costing &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;£22&lt;/span&gt; an hour in the ward of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bastwell&lt;/span&gt;, in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Blackburn&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Lancs&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fifteen and 16-year-olds had lessons in a car simulator and were warned of the dangers of drink-driving and joyriding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Blackburn-with-Darwen Council extended the scheme to two neighbouring white wards after Conservatives branded it &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'racist and sexist'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The council insisted the schemes targeted areas with high accident levels, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'regardless of race'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115451840599235976?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115451840599235976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115451840599235976&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115451840599235976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115451840599235976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-lessons-for-asians-only.html' title='Free lessons For Asians Only'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115451783308190347</id><published>2006-08-02T12:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T12:23:53.090+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Airports on Full Alert</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/british20airways20jet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/british20airways20jet.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Britain has been warned today to expect a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;security risk&lt;/span&gt; after &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;900&lt;/span&gt; stolen visas were sold on the black market in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Pakistan&lt;/span&gt;. Ports and airports were on &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;full alert&lt;/span&gt; last night after it had emerged the documents are being snapped up in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Muslim extremist&lt;/span&gt; countries for £500 each. Staff have been ordered to carry out extra passport checks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Whitehall spokesman stated, “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Pakistan is one of the worst places these visas could have turned up. They could be used by illegal immigrants and fundamentalists&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115451783308190347?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115451783308190347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115451783308190347&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115451783308190347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115451783308190347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/airports-on-full-alert.html' title='Airports on Full Alert'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115443127179186603</id><published>2006-08-01T12:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-01T12:22:37.740+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Terror Threat on UK 'Severe'</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/terroronuk2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/terroronuk2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The official level of the threat of a terror attack on Britain was made public for the first time today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The current state of alert, which stands at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'severe' &lt;/span&gt;was published first on a new Government website  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.intelligence.gov.uk"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;www.intelligence.gov.uk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The site has been set up to explain the role of the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'intelligence community'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As well as showing the threat level, there is a link to the web page explaining the new terror threat system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The current&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'severe'&lt;/span&gt; threat level is the second highest out of five, and indicates an attack is &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'highly likely'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The highest level is &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'critical'&lt;/span&gt;, meaning an attack is &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'expected imminently'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115443127179186603?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115443127179186603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115443127179186603&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115443127179186603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115443127179186603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/terror-threat-on-uk-severe.html' title='Terror Threat on UK &apos;Severe&apos;'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115443052008444102</id><published>2006-08-01T11:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-08-01T12:08:40.103+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Two more UK soldiers killed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/British-soldier-basra.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/British-soldier-basra.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;News breaking today is the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;MoD&lt;/span&gt; has announced that two more British soldiers have been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;killed&lt;/span&gt; in Afghanistan - the number may possibly&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; rise&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;three&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;four&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The soldiers were patrolling in the north of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Helmand province&lt;/span&gt; when they were &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;ambushed&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;attacked &lt;/span&gt;by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;militants&lt;/span&gt;, a third soldier was&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; seriously injured&lt;/span&gt; and another is missing &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;presumed dead&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The soldiers were attacked by militants armed with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;rocket propelled grenades&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;heavy machine guns&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The loved ones of the soldiers are being informed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115443052008444102?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115443052008444102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115443052008444102&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115443052008444102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115443052008444102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/08/two-more-uk-soldiers-killed.html' title='Two more UK soldiers killed'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115434822269457983</id><published>2006-07-31T12:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-31T19:24:36.153+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Islamic terror suspect is a paedophile</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/paedobrothers.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/paedobrothers.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mohammed Abdul Kahar&lt;/span&gt;, 23, the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Muslim terror suspect&lt;/span&gt; that police shot when his East London home was raided recently, could now face being&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; arrested&lt;/span&gt; again after &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;child porn&lt;/span&gt; was found on his computer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Approximately 250 officers stormed the Kahar household in a raid last June, where police searched for &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;chemical bombs&lt;/span&gt; after MI5 were tipped there was a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;cyanide bomb&lt;/span&gt; at the address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kahar was accidently shot in the shoulder by police when his brother, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Abul Koyair&lt;/span&gt;, 20 tussled with an armed officer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'kiddie porn'&lt;/span&gt; found on the Islamic family's computer was described as&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'high level'&lt;/span&gt; by the CPS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The sickening images were discovered by IT experts and Forensics after the PC had been confiscated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Met Police have so far refused to comment on whether Kahar will be arrested or not. A spokesman for the Met, stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“We are not discussing who we may interview or arrest.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The police had been receiving &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;strong critiscism&lt;/span&gt; from the left wing for the raid at the Muslim's home.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115434822269457983?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115434822269457983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115434822269457983&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115434822269457983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115434822269457983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/islamic-terror-suspect-is-paedophile.html' title='Islamic terror suspect is a paedophile'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115426512805021263</id><published>2006-07-30T14:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T14:30:40.186+01:00</updated><title type='text'>National Front March</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/NFFlame.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/NFFlame.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;There will be a march on the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;1/7/07&lt;/span&gt; in protest of the lack of respect shown by the Muslim protests after the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;London Bombings&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone interested in joining in this protest should meet at&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Luton train station at 11:45 am&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The March will commence at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;12:00pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115426512805021263?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115426512805021263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115426512805021263&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115426512805021263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115426512805021263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/national-front-march.html' title='National Front March'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115425648660677634</id><published>2006-07-30T11:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T14:30:15.910+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Israeli Airstrike Kills Children</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/katyusha.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/400/katyusha.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fifty people have died this morning in southern Lebanon from an Iraeli airstrike on the civilian village Qana, a large amount of those who were killed were &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;children&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Civil defence workers stated that up to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;50 civilians&lt;/span&gt;, who had sought refuge in a building that collapsed, were killed in the strike on Qana. The bodies of at least &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;27 children&lt;/span&gt; were found in the rubble, stated a civil defence official at the scene.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115425648660677634?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115425648660677634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115425648660677634&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115425648660677634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115425648660677634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/israeli-airstrike-kills-children.html' title='Israeli Airstrike Kills Children'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115417721252143136</id><published>2006-07-29T13:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T13:49:30.810+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Israel rejects ceasefire</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/israeli-flag.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/israeli-flag.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Israel has &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;rejected&lt;/span&gt; the UN's proposal of a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;three day ceasefire&lt;/span&gt; which would of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;enabled aid&lt;/span&gt; to be delivered to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;civilians&lt;/span&gt; south of Lebanon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Some aid has managed to get past Israel and has delivered food, blankets, tarpaulins, medical kits and other aid to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;women&lt;/span&gt; and&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; children&lt;/span&gt; by the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;US navy&lt;/span&gt; this morning. A medical team has also managed to set up a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;field hospital&lt;/span&gt; in the war torn country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Four UN peaceworkers&lt;/span&gt; have been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;killed&lt;/span&gt; by Israeli fire so far and the UN has warned that they may pull out if any more are killed. The UN have claimed that approximately &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;600 people&lt;/span&gt; have been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;killed &lt;/span&gt;by Israeli fire so far - a third of that number were &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;children&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lebanon has claimed that an Israeli attack on lebanese fuel tanks at a power plant has created the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; biggest environmental disaster the Mediterranean&lt;/span&gt; region has ever known. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The UN is concerned that children, elderly and disabled civilians have been left stranded and supplies are &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'running out very, very fast'&lt;/span&gt; in southern Lebanon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;On Monday, PM Tony Blair said at a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, America, that world leaders would discuss the deployment of a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'stabilisation force'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115417721252143136?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115417721252143136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115417721252143136&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115417721252143136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115417721252143136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/israel-rejects-ceasefire.html' title='Israel rejects ceasefire'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115408918346023212</id><published>2006-07-28T12:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-28T13:19:43.526+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cleric of Hate in Appeal Bid</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/hooky.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/hooky.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Cleric of hate, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Abu Hamza&lt;/span&gt;, is planning on &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;appealing&lt;/span&gt; against his convictions of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;race hatred offences&lt;/span&gt; and incitement to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;murder&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The hook handed cleric was sentenced to serve &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;seven years in prison&lt;/span&gt; last february at the Old Bailey, the trial lasted a month. The jury had found him&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; guilty&lt;/span&gt; of 11 out of the 15 charges brought against him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hamza's lawyers will apply for Hamza's leave so he can face three judges in London at an appeal hearing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Before the trial, Hamza gave &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'sermons of hatred'&lt;/span&gt; outside his mosque in Finsbury Park, North London, as well as in&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Luton&lt;/span&gt;, in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Blackburn&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Whitechapel&lt;/span&gt;, where he preached about&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; murder&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;terrorism&lt;/span&gt; against &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;non muslims&lt;/span&gt; to fanatical Muslim followers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hamza had also been found of posessing a&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'terror manual'&lt;/span&gt; which contained a dedication to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden&lt;/span&gt;, as well as terrorist &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;targets&lt;/span&gt; such as &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Big Ben&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Eiffel Tower&lt;/span&gt;. Hamza and followers referred to the manual as the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'Encyclopaedia of the Afghani Jihad'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;At the time of the trial, Judge Mr. Justice Hughes stated that Hamza had, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"helped to create an atmosphere in which to kill has become regarded by some as not only a legitimate course but a moral and religious duty in pursuit of perceived justice".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115408918346023212?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115408918346023212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115408918346023212&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115408918346023212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115408918346023212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/cleric-of-hate-in-appeal-bid.html' title='Cleric of Hate in Appeal Bid'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115399596980625140</id><published>2006-07-27T10:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T11:28:56.380+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Immigration Scandal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/Paraiso_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/Paraiso_2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;'The Sun', a British national newspaper, has caught out a corrupt immigration officer who had boasted that he had helped 200 bogus asylum seekers enter the UK for cash.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Joseph Dzumbria, 35, a Senior Home Office worker claimed that for £2,000 he could get anyone refugee status. He can provide fake documents, ID's and teach bogus asylum seekers how to cheat the system using 'loopholes'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Joeseph who is from Zimbabwe, has worked at Lunar House asylum HQ in Croydon, South London, for seven years. Lunar House is well known for its scandals, having being exposed for its 'sex for visas' racket by the same newspaper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He usually pretends the bogus asylum seekers are 'Zim' cases as Zimbabweans are threatened with arrest, torture and murder by the hands of President Mugabe's thugs, if returned back to Zimbabwe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Joseph has said, “I believe in delivering results. There are people who can bend the rules.” He has also claimed that Zimbabwean asylum seekers are not properly checked in security checks, making it easier for him to get them through undetected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115399596980625140?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115399596980625140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115399596980625140&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115399596980625140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115399596980625140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/immigration-scandal.html' title='Immigration Scandal'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115399365437555600</id><published>2006-07-27T10:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T10:47:34.960+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hamza threatens warders</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/hooky.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/hooky.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Muslim cleric of hate, Abu Hamza, 47, has threatened to punch warders with his stumps - resulting in him losing half of his privileges and will be facing a disciplinary hearing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hamza, who has lost both hands in a bombing incident and has hooks as replacement hands, he is only permitted to wear them in his cell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The incident occured after warders searched through his beard in a routine security check - which infuriated Hamza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The event unfolded before witnesses just before he was due to meet with lawyers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A witness stated, “He was spitting with anger when his beard was checked and said it was an insult to his religion. He flew at the warder and threatened to punch him. He has tremendous strength in his stumps and the threat was taken very seriously.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hamza is currently serving a seven year prison sentence for stiring up race hatred , he was placed on report for violent conduct. Any privileges that had been granted for good behaviour as an ‘enhanced prisoner’ were withdrawn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;An insider stated, “That’s real punishment. His visits will be cut and he’ll have half the usual £30 a week to spend in the canteen.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He is an idol for young Muslims who are serving at Belmarsh and may be sent to Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight where there are fewer Muslims.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115399365437555600?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115399365437555600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115399365437555600&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115399365437555600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115399365437555600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/hamza-threatens-warders.html' title='Hamza threatens warders'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115390969365845019</id><published>2006-07-26T10:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-26T11:28:13.870+01:00</updated><title type='text'>'Hamza inspired me'</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/2001_05_10-10_40_00.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/2001_05_10-10_40_00.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A bomb plotter who claimed to be &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;brainwashed &lt;/span&gt;by Muslim prophecies and words of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;hate &lt;/span&gt;by other Muslim fanatics, has stood in the dock of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Old Bailey&lt;/span&gt; facing charges of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'plotting terrorism'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Salahuddin Amin, 31&lt;/span&gt; has told police how he listened to cleric of Hate, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Abu Hamza&lt;/span&gt;, and claimed he was brainwashed by Hamza's poison.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Prosecutors at the trial stated that Amin and his cohorts were found to have &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;600kg of ammonium&lt;/span&gt; to make bombs for &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Al-Qaeda attacks&lt;/span&gt; in the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;UK&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He also told police that Hamza's words &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'inspired'&lt;/span&gt; him to go to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Afghnanistan&lt;/span&gt; and fight after listening to one of Hamza's rants outside &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Finsbury Park Mosque, London&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Bomb Plot trial was unfolded at the Old Bailey as the court listened to Amin's interviews where he coolly stated,&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; “After listening to Abu Hamza, I made up my mind that I’m going to move to Afghanistan".&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In the interviews, which the court listened to, Amin confesses to being a&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'go between'&lt;/span&gt; hoping to attain an &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;atomic bomb&lt;/span&gt; from the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Russian mafia&lt;/span&gt;, he also confesses to police that he &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'felt good'&lt;/span&gt; about America's Twin Towers tragedy but insisted he&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'regretted'&lt;/span&gt; the civilian deaths. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Amin, including&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; six other&lt;/span&gt; Islamic fanatics, are accused of plotting terrorist attacks againt Britain, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bluewater shopping centre&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ministry of Sound nightclub&lt;/span&gt; were all targets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;So far Amin and the other six fanatics &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;deny &lt;/span&gt;the charges put to them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The trial continues.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115390969365845019?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115390969365845019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115390969365845019&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115390969365845019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115390969365845019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/hamza-inspired-me.html' title='&apos;Hamza inspired me&apos;'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115383584267562778</id><published>2006-07-25T14:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-26T02:01:33.776+01:00</updated><title type='text'>BNP's RWB 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/rwb.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/rwb.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Tickets are &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;now &lt;/span&gt;on sale for this years BNP's Red, White and Blue festival.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Please call &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;0870 7515296&lt;/span&gt; to book your tickets or buy online at the BNP link provided on the side bar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Thank you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115383584267562778?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115383584267562778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115383584267562778&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115383584267562778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115383584267562778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/bnps-rwb-2006.html' title='BNP&apos;s RWB 2006'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115382354593756067</id><published>2006-07-25T11:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-26T01:54:20.000+01:00</updated><title type='text'>'British' Muslims face terrorist charges</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/londonbomber.5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/londonbomber.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;News today is that four men and four women have been accused of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;plotting the London Bombings&lt;/span&gt; on July 21st 2005, the group were also charged with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;failing to disclose information on terrorists&lt;/span&gt; to police.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Hussain Osman's&lt;/span&gt;, one of the last years &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;bombers&lt;/span&gt;, wife, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Yeshiemebet Girma&lt;/span&gt;, 29, Stockwell, South London has been remanded in custody and has been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;accused &lt;/span&gt;of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;aiding&lt;/span&gt; her husband.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But her siblings - &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mohamaed Kabashi, 24, Shadi Abdelgadir, 23, Mulumebet Girma, 21, Omer Almagboul, 21 and Sayas Girma, 20&lt;/span&gt;, were all bailed yesterday at Woolich Crown Court.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115382354593756067?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115382354593756067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115382354593756067&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115382354593756067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115382354593756067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/british-muslims-face-terrorist-charges.html' title='&apos;British&apos; Muslims face terrorist charges'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115370691142548497</id><published>2006-07-24T03:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T11:51:50.886+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Saddam rushed to hospital</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/saddam.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/saddam.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The former dictator and tyrant, Saddam Hussein, 69 was rushed to hospital yesterday after he had been on hunger strike for 17 days.&lt;br /&gt;Saddam and three co-defendants began the protest on July 7 against courtroom procedures and the murders of his defence lawyers.&lt;br /&gt;Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi said in the morning the former Iraqi leader was “unstable” and being fed by a tube.&lt;br /&gt;Later he said Saddam’s condition had stabilised.&lt;br /&gt;A spokesman for Saddam’s US detention centre confirmed he was “voluntarily receiving nutrition through a feeding tube”.&lt;br /&gt;He is expected to return to court in Baghdad on Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;Saddam has been charged with a crackdown on Shi’ites in the town of Dujail in 1982.&lt;br /&gt;On August 21 he is set to go on trial for a 1980s attack that killed an estimated 100,000 Kurds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115370691142548497?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115370691142548497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115370691142548497&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115370691142548497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115370691142548497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/saddam-rushed-to-hospital.html' title='Saddam rushed to hospital'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115365107301912309</id><published>2006-07-23T11:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-23T11:41:53.176+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sarah's law looking doubtful</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/sarah.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Sarah Payne, 8 years old&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;After the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;murder&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Megan Kanka&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;7&lt;/span&gt;, by a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;neighbour&lt;/span&gt; who was a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;convicted sex offender&lt;/span&gt; , &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'Megan's Law'&lt;/span&gt; was introduced in to the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;US&lt;/span&gt;. Megan's Law allows parents to be made aware of any &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;paedophilles&lt;/span&gt; living in their area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The law has been endlessly campaigned for to be brought over to the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; UK&lt;/span&gt; after the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;molestation&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;murder&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sarah Payne&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;8&lt;/span&gt;, by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;paedophille Roy Whiting&lt;/span&gt; six years ago. Campaigners have fought to have the same law introduced over here, sometimes known as &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'Sarah's Law'&lt;/span&gt;, because it &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;would&lt;/span&gt; save &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;children's lives&lt;/span&gt; - but &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;critics &lt;/span&gt;have argued that if brought over, the government would then be&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'pandering'&lt;/span&gt; to the whims of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;media pressure&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; office of the children's commissioner&lt;/span&gt; claimed that by introducing 'Megan's Law' in to the UK, could possibly cause more harm than good because &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;paedophilles&lt;/span&gt; would be driven to go&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'underground'&lt;/span&gt;, subsequently harming more children undetected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115365107301912309?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115365107301912309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115365107301912309&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115365107301912309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115365107301912309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/sarahs-law-looking-doubtful.html' title='Sarah&apos;s law looking doubtful'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115364883496521648</id><published>2006-07-23T10:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-23T11:01:49.790+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Border police for the UK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/John%20Reid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/John%20Reid.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;For the first time in the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;UK&lt;/span&gt;, a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;uniformed border control force&lt;/span&gt; will be established at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;airports &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;ports&lt;/span&gt; around the country, claims the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Home Secretary John Reid&lt;/span&gt;. After a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;report&lt;/span&gt; by MPs &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;condemned&lt;/span&gt; the current enforcement measures as &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'inadequate'&lt;/span&gt;, the MPs also commented on the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;lack&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;ability&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;remove illegal imigrants&lt;/span&gt; and poor decisions made in individual cases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The proposed idea has been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;vetoed&lt;/span&gt; by a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;refugee Council spokesman&lt;/span&gt; who declared the money would be better put to use on funding to&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; train asylum case workers&lt;/span&gt; than on&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; funding border police&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115364883496521648?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115364883496521648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115364883496521648&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115364883496521648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115364883496521648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/border-police-for-uk.html' title='Border police for the UK'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115357602853819879</id><published>2006-07-22T14:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T14:52:47.486+01:00</updated><title type='text'>British man burnt alive by African wife</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/West.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/West.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A British tycoon, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;William West&lt;/span&gt;, 76 , who had disappeared on the 3rd of July while on holiday, was found after his &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;charred remains&lt;/span&gt; were uncovered near to the couple's Luxury beach house in Gambia. He had been murdered by his &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;twenty six year old African wife&lt;/span&gt;, Kate, - who had&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; burnt him alive&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The African had married Mr. West, six years previously when she met him whilst he was on holiday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The African woman eventually confessed to murdering Mr. West after she had originally claimed he had disappeared after &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'popping into a cigar store'&lt;/span&gt; on a day trip to neighbouring Senegal. She told the Police in her confession that his body was in the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;village of Sangyang&lt;/span&gt;, twenty miles from&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Banjul&lt;/span&gt;, the capital of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Gambia&lt;/span&gt;. An &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;African&lt;/span&gt; man is also being held by local police and being questioned over the grizzily murder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The day after her husband had gone 'missing' the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;African&lt;/span&gt; woman flew back to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Hastings, East Sussex&lt;/span&gt;, to Mr. West's £750,000 home.  She was caught after returned back to Gambia to register Mr. West as missing and to help with the search for the 'missing' man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assistant Police Supt, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Aziz Bojang&lt;/span&gt; was quoted as saying, “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;As a result of an interview with the wife, detectives found Mr West’s body at the home they shared. She has confessed, and she is the prime suspect. She has named a West African man as an accomplice but he is denying any involvement&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He continued," &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The conditions of Mr West’s remains were so horrible. His body was very badly burned. Kate is currently in police custody and will be charged with murder. If convicted she could be jailed for life&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Officers investigating the death, had gone through private documents belonging to Mr West and had found a will in which his wife was named as the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; main beneficiary&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mr. Bojang also stated “&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;We are still trying to determine the motive for the killing and there is every reason to believe his wife would clearly benefit through his death. This is an unprecedented incident here. Because Mr West’s property is situated in a remote area near the beach not many people in the community are aware of what has happened. Investigations are continuing into what has happened but we are still at an early stage in our inquiries&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115357602853819879?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115357602853819879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115357602853819879&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115357602853819879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115357602853819879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/british-man-burnt-alive-by-african.html' title='British man burnt alive by African wife'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115347578410789636</id><published>2006-07-21T09:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-21T14:48:43.646+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hate Preacher Begs to be let back into UK</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/Bakri.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/Bakri.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;benefit scrounger&lt;/span&gt; and Muslim preacher of hate, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Omar Bakri&lt;/span&gt;, 46, who &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;fled&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;UK&lt;/span&gt; last year has been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;begging&lt;/span&gt; the British Royal Navy to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;rescue&lt;/span&gt; him from Beirut which is war torn from a non stop rampage of bombings and missiles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Bakri was turned away yesterday by officials who recognized him, after he tried to board a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;British ship&lt;/span&gt; which was full of women and children. Bakri has also contacted the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;British embassy&lt;/span&gt;, in a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;begging email&lt;/span&gt;, to be let back into the UK on &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'humanitarian grounds'&lt;/span&gt;. The email read, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The&lt;/span&gt; current situation in Beirut left me without any choice but to appeal to you to grant me a visit visa to see my children for one month."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bakri, was &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;forced&lt;/span&gt; to leave the UK last August and to return back to Lebanon after a National Newspaper, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'The Sun'&lt;/span&gt;, campaigned for the evil preacher to be kicked out of the UK, leaving his family behind in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Edmonton, North London&lt;/span&gt;. He was also banned from returning back to the country by then home secretary, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Charles Clarke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115347578410789636?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115347578410789636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115347578410789636&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115347578410789636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115347578410789636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/hate-preacher-begs-to-be-let-back-into.html' title='Hate Preacher Begs to be let back into UK'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115338655338774692</id><published>2006-07-20T09:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-21T14:49:41.836+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Contraceptives for children</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/condoms.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/condoms.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Shocking news today as it emerges that &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;condoms&lt;/span&gt; will now go on sale for thirteen year old children. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Germany&lt;/span&gt; was the first country to start selling the contraceptive yesterday and now &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Durex &lt;/span&gt;are contemplating whether to start selling them in the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;UK&lt;/span&gt; next year, sparking outrage across the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The updated version is 49mm wide instead of 52mm of the original condom and is made so that it is easier to put on, ideal for younger people with little experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Campaigners who are furious of Durex's plans, fear that the sale of the updated version of the condoms could lead to even &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;more under age sex&lt;/span&gt; as youths under the age limit could see it as a green light to have under age sex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A spokesman for Durex stated yesterday, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"It is aimed at youths between 13 and 16, where a not insignificant number engage in unprotected sex. The average British teens first have sex at 15, and we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durex's launch of the product was described as, 'sick and irresponsible', by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Matthew O' Gorman&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;LIFE&lt;/span&gt;, a Christian charity. He also stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"We know that teenagers engage in risky behaviour. If it's messing around on roads or taking drugs, we teach them not to because it's bad for them. But when it comes to sex, we do the opposite by throwing condoms at the problem".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although condoms reduce the risk of pregnancy dramatically, they are, however, not a 100% fail proof and do not provide adequate protection against sexually transmitted infections or diseases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Family Planning Association, are pleased about the launch and stated yesterday, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"All initiatives that promote young people to have safe sex should be encouraged".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115338655338774692?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115338655338774692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115338655338774692&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115338655338774692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115338655338774692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/contraceptives-for-children.html' title='Contraceptives for children'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115329958956161012</id><published>2006-07-19T09:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-19T10:01:05.933+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Prison food, not good enough for Muslims</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/meat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/meat.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;report&lt;/span&gt; by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;MPs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; claims that &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Muslim inmates&lt;/span&gt; in British prisons are being &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;neglected&lt;/span&gt; and their needs not met. Specifically in the area of Muslim's food that is &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;served&lt;/span&gt; in prisons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kitchen staff have been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;ordered &lt;/span&gt;to make sure that the food is prepared properly to agree with &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Islamic laws&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;New fridges&lt;/span&gt; will be sent to prisons around the country to store &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;halal meat&lt;/span&gt; separately as not to risk &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;contamination&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;non halal meat&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;According to the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;dossier&lt;/span&gt;, seven thousand Muslim &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;inmates&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;needs&lt;/span&gt; are not being met after some Muslims have &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;refused&lt;/span&gt; to eat the halal meat offered by prison kitchens, mainly because they feel they can not &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;trust&lt;/span&gt; kitchen staff who prepare it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115329958956161012?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115329958956161012/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115329958956161012&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115329958956161012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115329958956161012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/prison-food-not-good-enough-for.html' title='Prison food, not good enough for Muslims'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115324985640233834</id><published>2006-07-18T20:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T20:24:23.860+01:00</updated><title type='text'>John Tyndall ~ BNP Founder</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/tyndall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/tyndall.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Remembering Mr. Tyndall on the first anniversary of his death, he is dearly missed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;July 14th 1934 ~ July 19th 2005&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Article on the late, great John tyndall from the BNP's own words:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bnp.org.uk/"&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Please Click Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115324985640233834?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115324985640233834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115324985640233834&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115324985640233834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115324985640233834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/john-tyndall-bnp-founder.html' title='John Tyndall ~ BNP Founder'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115321313073065139</id><published>2006-07-18T09:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T09:58:50.753+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Baby selling gang arrested</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/blue%20eye%20baby.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/blue%20eye%20baby.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;News emerging today is that desperate childless British couples are &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;buying babies&lt;/span&gt; from a Czech 'baby trafficking' gang who offered &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'door to door &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;delivery.'&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The babies are &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;drugged &lt;/span&gt;to make them more 'managable' to bring them over from the Czech Republic to Britain and other European countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One child, a nine month old blond girl, fetched &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;£79'000&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;'The Sun', a national newspaper, has helped the police to catch the vile gang by posing as a wealthy married banker from a childless couple interested in buying a child.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The gang was caught and arrested when the Czech police, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and ninety armed police officers intercepted the gang chiefs in Prague.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Now an international search has been launched to find other children who have been sold by the vile gang. Police fear some were bought by the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; sex trade&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115321313073065139?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115321313073065139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115321313073065139&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115321313073065139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115321313073065139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/baby-selling-gang-arrested.html' title='Baby selling gang arrested'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115314683000066415</id><published>2006-07-17T15:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T22:25:15.566+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Breaking News: A very sad day for England</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/flag.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/flag.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A very sad day for England as it is announced&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;that the St.&lt;/span&gt; George flag, England's national flag since the 11th century will be &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;dropped&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;replaced&lt;/span&gt; with a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;new one&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The dragon slayer's flag, which was worn by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;King Richard The Lionheart&lt;/span&gt; and his &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;knights&lt;/span&gt; on the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;crusades &lt;/span&gt;will be &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;dropped&lt;/span&gt;, after the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Church &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Government&lt;/span&gt; decided that it was &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'too offensive'&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Muslim communities&lt;/span&gt; now living in the UK.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Not only will the flag be&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; replaced&lt;/span&gt; but the church is considering &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;rejecting&lt;/span&gt; St. George for being&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'too war like'&lt;/span&gt; and are considering &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;St. Alban&lt;/span&gt; as the new &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Patron Saint of England&lt;/span&gt;. St. George will have his &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Saint hood&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; removed&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;St. Alban was a Christian martyr during the Roman occupation of Britain.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The St. Alban's flag will be a replica of his symbol which is a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;blue background with a yellow diagonal cross.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;~ &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf urges everyone to reject this new flag and to hang up even more St. George's Flags and show them that we will not reject our glorious Saint nor our glorious flag&lt;/span&gt; ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115314683000066415?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115314683000066415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115314683000066415&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115314683000066415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115314683000066415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/breaking-news-very-sad-day-for-england.html' title='Breaking News: A very sad day for England'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115310102569353483</id><published>2006-07-17T02:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T19:45:43.510+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Breaking News: Brit soldier killed in Basra</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/British-soldier-basra.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/British-soldier-basra.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;News just breaking&lt;/span&gt;, reports that a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;British soldier&lt;/span&gt; has been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;killed&lt;/span&gt; in Iraq during an operation to sieze &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;terrorists&lt;/span&gt;. Another British soldier has been injured.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The British troops came under &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'small arms fire'&lt;/span&gt; during an assault on &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Basra&lt;/span&gt;. Since the hostilities have begun, Uk forces have&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; lost 114 personnel&lt;/span&gt;. There are currently &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;8'200&lt;/span&gt; UK troops in southern Iraq.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;British soldiers who were injured were evacuated to a British Hospital at&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Shaibah Logistics Base&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The MoD spokesperson stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"It is with great regret that we can confirm one of the soldiers has subsequently died of these injuries. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the family at this difficult time. The other soldier's injuries are not life-threatening. We can confirm that as a result of this operation, two men suspected of involvement in serious crime and terrorism in the Basra Province have been apprehended. Operations like this are essential to help provide a secure and prosperous environment in Basra so its people can live without fear from intimidation or threat of violence."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Major Charlie Burbridge, British forces, spokesman, stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"We used sufficient numbers to conduct the mission. The mission's objective was achieved. It was a well-planned operation. Helicopters and armoured Warrior vehicles were used to support troops. We have been pleased with the outcome of the operation, it went according to plan. But we do mourn the loss of one of our soldiers."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115310102569353483?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115310102569353483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115310102569353483&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115310102569353483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115310102569353483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/breaking-news-brit-soldier-killed-in.html' title='Breaking News: Brit soldier killed in Basra'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115304973439579158</id><published>2006-07-16T12:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-16T12:35:34.466+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tax Payers pay for Huntley's safety</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/child%20killer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/child%20killer.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A leaked secret report has revealed that &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;pervert, Ian Huntley, 32, killer&lt;/span&gt; of ten year olds &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Holly Wells&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Jessica Chapmen&lt;/span&gt;, was able to attempt suicide whilst in prison, Woodhill, Bucks because of failures in his supervision. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Government had ordered a report on his supervision after the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;child killer&lt;/span&gt; came close to dying after an overdose in June, 2003.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Investigators discovered that &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Huntley&lt;/span&gt; was not being properly guarded or supervised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Warders were warned by Huntley's psychiatrist that he was a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;suicide risk&lt;/span&gt; but investigators found that warders were failing to check that the pervert had been swallowing his anti depressant pills. They also discovered that warders were also failing to check his cell properly and to check his personal property regularly, as well as any property the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;child killer&lt;/span&gt; may of had in other areas of the prison.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The report further points out that due to the lack of supervision, the pervert was able to build a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;deadly store&lt;/span&gt; of drugs up. He had hidden them outside his cell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In 2003, Huntley was found in his cell in an unconscious state after he had imbibed&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; twenty nine Amitriptylyne&lt;/span&gt; tablets, he was taken to hospital where, unfortunately, medical staff were able to save him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Prison Service stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“There were failures in the care of Ian Huntley in the period leading up to his trial but he is now on an adapted normal regime.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Government has yet to reveal how much the investigation has cost British tax payers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115304973439579158?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115304973439579158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115304973439579158&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115304973439579158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115304973439579158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/tax-payers-pay-for-huntleys-safety.html' title='Tax Payers pay for Huntley&apos;s safety'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115300859437003686</id><published>2006-07-16T00:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-16T02:39:46.450+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Firemen to be sacked by PC Brigade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/scotia%20pride.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/scotia%20pride.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Fourteen Red Watch &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;firemen&lt;/span&gt; are to be &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;investigated&lt;/span&gt; and may be subject to &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;disciplinary action&lt;/span&gt;, even possible &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;dissmisal&lt;/span&gt;, after they refused to hand out fire service leaflets on &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;moral grounds&lt;/span&gt;, during a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'Pride Scotia' march&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Strathclyde, Glasgow&lt;/span&gt; in June.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Please help these unappreciated &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;heroes&lt;/span&gt; who risk their lives every day for &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;our safety&lt;/span&gt; by signing a petition that the BNP have put together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/glas0706/"&gt; Please Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;a"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115300859437003686?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115300859437003686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115300859437003686&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115300859437003686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115300859437003686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/firemen-to-be-sacked-by-pc-brigade.html' title='Firemen to be sacked by PC Brigade'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115296720351539050</id><published>2006-07-15T12:45:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-15T13:40:03.556+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Galloway Friends with Cleric of Hate</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/george.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/george.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Delwar Hossain Sayeedi&lt;/span&gt;, a fanatical Muslim cleric, has been given the green light to come to the UK by ministers - even though he has stated openly that Britain &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;deserves suicide bombings&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The cleric was given a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;visa &lt;/span&gt;by the Home Office who stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“He does not meet the criteria for refusal”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today it is expected that Delwar Hossain Sayeedi will join in an East London &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;rally&lt;/span&gt; with the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Respect MP George Galloway&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In 2001, the cleric was reported as declaring, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"Britain and America deserve all that is coming to them." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;So what if the Taliban is destroyed? The war against America will continue.”&lt;/span&gt; After the invasion of Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;On previous visits to the UK the cleric has spread &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;hate and violence&lt;/span&gt;, he has even inflamed situations globally. One of his speeches led to the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; bombing&lt;/span&gt; of the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh. It is also strongly believed that his speeches of hate were behind the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;murder&lt;/span&gt; of a Bangladeshi author Humayun Azad in February 2004, Azad &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;died&lt;/span&gt; six months later from his injuries. The cleric has also called for his supporters to go to war &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;against Britain and America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Mockbul Ali&lt;/span&gt;, the Foreign Office's Islamic Issues Adviser declared that the cleric's &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;extreme views should be heard &lt;/span&gt;and the Foreign Office&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; refused&lt;/span&gt; to keep the cleric out of the UK.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;David Davis&lt;/span&gt;, Shadow Home Secretary stated last night, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“This totally undermines Tony Blair’s claims to be tough on those who incite terror and hatred.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;However, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;emails &lt;/span&gt;that were sent by Foreign Office advisers, have been leaked to the public. The emails contained &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;warnings&lt;/span&gt; against the cleric be allowed in. One of the emails which was sent by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Eric Taylor&lt;/span&gt;, stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"Sayeedi has made a particularly offensive comment about Bangladeshi Hindus, comparing them to excrement. Previous visits to the UK have been reportedly marred by violence caused by his supporters.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;But another one of emails sent by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ali&lt;/span&gt; who UK taxpayers &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;pay his salary&lt;/span&gt;, warned that refusing the cleric's visa would backfire. His email stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“He is someone who has a very big following in the mainstream British Bangladeshi Muslim community and is viewed as a mainstream Muslim. Any steps taken on his exclusion from the UK must take that into account.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Cleric will be taking part in launching a social &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;housing project for Bangladeshi people&lt;/span&gt; in East London. He is also expected to visit the large East London Mosque during his stay.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115296720351539050?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115296720351539050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115296720351539050&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115296720351539050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115296720351539050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/galloway-friends-with-cleric-of-hate.html' title='Galloway Friends with Cleric of Hate'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115289816371596991</id><published>2006-07-14T18:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T18:33:52.850+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fight Gypsy Killed His Friend</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/gypsy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/gypsy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Gypsy John Broadway, 27 of Curry Rivel&lt;/span&gt;, Somerset has been sentenced at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Exeter Crown Court &lt;/span&gt;to serve a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;fifteen month prison sentence&lt;/span&gt; after he pleaded guilty at a manslaughter hearing for &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;killing his friend, Billy Roberts, 42, in a fight outside The Bell pub in Ilminster, Somerset in December of last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Mr John Broadway's friend died in hospital after he had sustained injuries to his head which were skull fractures which were caused when his head hit the pavement outside the pub.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fight happened shorty after the pair had been playing pool, Billy Roberts challenged his friend John to a fight after he had made negative remarks concerning his stepson. Neil Ford QC, the Defence counsel stated to the court: &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“When one gypsy is asked outside by another he does not back down. When you’re asked to fight you are expected to.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ian Pringle QC stated that when Billy Roberts went down for the second time the defendant told him: &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“Behave now, just leave it.” &lt;/span&gt;But Mr Roberts got up and threw more blows. When he fell for the third time there was a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“sickening crack”&lt;/span&gt; as his head hit the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Broadway had fled to York but later decided to surrender to the police. Mr Ford stated that Broadway had been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“invited outside”&lt;/span&gt; by Mr Roberts, who was known as a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“top dog fighter”&lt;/span&gt; who had been known to take part in bare knuckle boxing matches. He said Mr Roberts was determined to continue fighting even though he was getting the worst of it. Judge Graham Cottle stated that he was satisfied Broadway had shown genuine remorse and told him: &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“The consequences were clearly unintended. Broadway had been challenged to a fight and culturally to refuse was “quite unacceptable”, although that did not make it any less unlawful. It was not the punch from which he died. He died when his head hit the ground."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115289816371596991?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115289816371596991/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115289816371596991&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115289816371596991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115289816371596991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/fight-gypsy-killed-his-friend.html' title='Fight Gypsy Killed His Friend'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115288078305475990</id><published>2006-07-14T13:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T13:41:29.436+01:00</updated><title type='text'>PM to be interviewed by police</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/TB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/TB.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It has emerged today that police have questioned &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;forty eight people&lt;/span&gt; about the 'cash for honours' scandal. The Police have stated that they would go &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“anywhere this investigation leads”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Tony Blair will also be &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;interviewed and questioned&lt;/span&gt; by police before September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;The Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates&lt;/span&gt; has been informed by a committee probing Labour funding that they wish to contact him for an interview.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mr. Yates was informed that this could possibly be very unhelpful for the party by their &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;chairman, Tony Wright.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Leading up to last years election &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;the Labour Party&lt;/span&gt; received &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;£15 million &lt;/span&gt;which was raised in&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; loans rather than declarable donations&lt;/span&gt;. Tony Blair continues to maintain that he takes&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; full responsibility&lt;/span&gt; for how the Party raises funds.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Peerages were then&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; offered&lt;/span&gt; to certain businessmen who had loaned money. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Because of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;millions of pounds&lt;/span&gt; that Lord Levy raised for the Labour Party since Mr Blair was elected as PM, it has earned him the nickname&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; 'Lord Cashpoint'&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;, he&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;was also the key figure who negotiated the loans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115288078305475990?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115288078305475990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115288078305475990&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115288078305475990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115288078305475990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/pm-to-be-interviewed-by-police.html' title='PM to be interviewed by police'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115278200305123162</id><published>2006-07-13T09:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-13T10:13:23.060+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Council BARS Whites from Jobs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/council.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/council.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Former History student, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Kieron Keenan, 23, of Lancing, West Sussex&lt;/span&gt;, applied for a job at &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Brighton and Hove Council&lt;/span&gt; and was turned down because he is &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;WHITE&lt;/span&gt;, even though he is a&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; graduate and qualified&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Kieron was not even &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;allowed&lt;/span&gt; to apply for the assistant post by council superiors as he is not Chinese, Asian, African or Afro Caribbean. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He was quoted as saying yesterday:&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; “I’m qualified but barred by my skin colour. I didn’t even get chance to apply as the ad said you couldn’t unless you were non-white. Apparently it’s perfectly legal but I feel astonished and very annoyed.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Labour&lt;/span&gt; controlled Council imployed the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Race Relations Act&lt;/span&gt; so they could &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;bar any whites from applying&lt;/span&gt; to the £9,000-a-year job at the Royal Pavilion, in order to fill quotas of ethnic minority staff. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Bert Williams, who is in charge of running the area’s Black History Project, stated: &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“It is just another form of discrimination.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A spokesman from the Council stated: &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“It is lawful to offer training only for people from a certain racial group.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115278200305123162?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115278200305123162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115278200305123162&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115278200305123162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115278200305123162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/council-bars-whites-from-jobs.html' title='Council BARS Whites from Jobs'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115275219709491715</id><published>2006-07-13T01:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-13T01:59:40.870+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Disturbance at Orange Parade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/_41877810_women300_pa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/_41877810_women300_pa.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Every year, on the 12th of July, Protestants celebrate and commemorate Prince William of&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Orange's &lt;/span&gt;1690 battle of the Boyne victory over the Catholic King James the II.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Although the day passed relatively peacefully compared to previous years, it was spoilt by a small group of Catholic protesters who hurled &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;abuse, spat at the peaceful parade and threw stones and golf balls&lt;/span&gt; as the parade was passing the Ardoyne.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;No one was badly injured but one Catholic protester was hurt when a rock thrown behind her from other protesters hit the back of her head.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115275219709491715?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115275219709491715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115275219709491715&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115275219709491715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115275219709491715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/disturbance-at-orange-parade.html' title='Disturbance at Orange Parade'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115272455908515728</id><published>2006-07-12T18:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-12T18:15:59.086+01:00</updated><title type='text'>BREAKING NEWS: Lord Levy Arrested</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/levy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/levy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;News currently Breaking is that &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Lord Levy&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;61&lt;/span&gt;,who is a party fundraiser for the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Labour Party&lt;/span&gt;, has been &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;arrested&lt;/span&gt; and taken to a North London police station where he was bailed to appear at a later date in court over the 'cash for honours' enquiry by Scotland Yard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Since &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Tony Blair's&lt;/span&gt; election, Levy has been a high profile fundraiser for the Labour party.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115272455908515728?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115272455908515728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115272455908515728&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115272455908515728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115272455908515728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/breaking-news-lord-levy-arrested.html' title='BREAKING NEWS: Lord Levy Arrested'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115272396052132398</id><published>2006-07-12T18:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-12T19:10:50.336+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Muslim 'day only' at Alton Towers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/Alton%20Towers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/Alton%20Towers.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Article taken from the B.N.P. site : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The clash of civilisations is not a “possible” scenario away in the future but is taking place right here and right now and while in some cases that clash manifests itself in ugly acts of murderous violence such as the 7/7 London bombings, the 9/11 attack on New York or yesterday's Islamic attack on Hindus in India, it also appears in other ways which while not murderous or barbaric are troubling, inconvenient or costly.Take, for example, the story of a young couple whose wedding plans have been thrown into chaos following an administrative bungle by staff at Alton Towers.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"&gt;You can read the rest of this brilliant article on the B.N.P site, the link is to the right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115272396052132398?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115272396052132398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115272396052132398&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115272396052132398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115272396052132398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/muslim-day-only-at-alton-towers.html' title='Muslim &apos;day only&apos; at Alton Towers'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115269839712199489</id><published>2006-07-12T10:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-12T10:59:57.130+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Loose Lips Sink Ships</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/The%20BBC.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/The%20BBC.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It has emerged last night that ministers have suggested that BBC chiefs had put the lives of British soldiers at risk in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Defence Secretary&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Des Browne&lt;/span&gt; blasted &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“careless”&lt;/span&gt; talk which could costs lives. His attack against the BBC came after the BBC had aired an interview with a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Taliban leader&lt;/span&gt; in Afghanistan who described the British presence as a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“war”&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Ministers are now concerned that his words could plausibly provoke the Afghanistans to attack our troops who are in Afghanistan now — helping to rebuild the country.&lt;br /&gt;Mr Browne informed MPs: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“Feeding that back into Helmand puts our troops at risk.&lt;br /&gt;“The Taliban have an impressive information operation and every word in our media and our Parliament is taken back.&lt;br /&gt;“It’s careless with the lives of our soldiers to sow confusion where no confusion exists.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BBC interview was broadcast on the day Mr Browne ordered &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;900 extra troops to Afghanistan.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115269839712199489?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115269839712199489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115269839712199489&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115269839712199489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115269839712199489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/loose-lips-sink-ships.html' title='Loose Lips Sink Ships'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115261389345689978</id><published>2006-07-11T11:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-11T22:15:17.776+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Briton Murdered in America</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/_41868444_alansenitt203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/_41868444_alansenitt203.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Briton Alan Senitt&lt;/span&gt;, of Pinner, North West London, who was a rising &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Left-wing&lt;/span&gt; politician for the Labour Party, was murdered at two a.m on Sunday in Washington DC by a gang who slashed his throat open as he tried to prevent his American female companion from being raped. He died in the driveway of a mansion after walking the friend home from the cinema. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He fought May’s local council elections for Labour in Edgware and had worked for the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;all-party&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;British-Israel parliamentary&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;group&lt;/span&gt; as well as being a leading charity worker and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;activist for Jewish causes&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Before going to the US, Mr Senitt was the director of the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Coexistence Trust, which aims to bring Muslims and Jews together to fight Islamophobia and anti-semitism. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The 27-year-old Londoner was working in America on a leading Democrat’s presidential campaign. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115261389345689978?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115261389345689978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115261389345689978&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115261389345689978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115261389345689978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/briton-murdered-in-america.html' title='Briton Murdered in America'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115261286041319928</id><published>2006-07-11T11:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-11T12:55:05.170+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mass Child Killer Dead</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/the%20beast.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/the%20beast.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;News has broken today that the evil terrorist, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Shamil Basayev&lt;/span&gt;, 41 , also known as &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;'The Beast of Beslan'&lt;/span&gt; has been killed by Russian special forces.&lt;br /&gt;Shamil Basayev, 41, was behind the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Beslan school massacre in 2004&lt;/span&gt; which saw three hundred and thirty one people brutally murdered - half of that figure was &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;children&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;He was planning a&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; new atrocity for this weekend’s G8 meeting of world leaders in St Petersburg&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Thankfully spies discovered the Chechen guerilla leader’s hideout in Ingushetia, southern Russia. And Basayev, in a convoy including a truck packed with 220lbs of dynamite, died when Russian forces detonated the explosives. Twelve other fellow fanatics were also killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basayev was identified after his severed head was found amid the carnage. The beast had led eleven years of attacks. Russia posted a £6 million reward for his capture after the Beslan outrage. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;President Vladimir Putin hailed his death as “deserved retribution”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115261286041319928?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115261286041319928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115261286041319928&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115261286041319928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115261286041319928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/mass-child-killer-dead.html' title='Mass Child Killer Dead'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115253839621252169</id><published>2006-07-10T14:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T14:35:30.836+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bacon Sarnie - Offensive Weapon?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/bacon%20sandwhich.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/200/bacon%20sandwhich.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It has emerged today that police were banned from eating &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;bacon sandwiches&lt;/span&gt; at an Islam Expo event by their superiors for fear of offending any Muslims. Caterers had provided a variety of sandwiches for police officers at the event at Alexandra Palace in North London.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One on duty police officer who was at the festival stated, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"I've never heard of a ham sandwich being treated like a weapon."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're wondering at TR&amp;amp;TOL this: &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;had the event of been for Christian officers for example (ed - do they even do events for Christians these days?), would Halal meat have been banned from fear of offending the Christians?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somehow we don't think so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115253839621252169?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115253839621252169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115253839621252169&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115253839621252169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115253839621252169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/bacon-sarnie-offensive-weapon.html' title='Bacon Sarnie - Offensive Weapon?'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115246553016813164</id><published>2006-07-09T18:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T03:49:24.856+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Muslim Terrorists In Court</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/77.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/77.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A Muslim charged with terrorism offences has been remanded in custody during a brief court appearance in London. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Omar Altimimi, 36, of Bolton, Greater Manchester&lt;/span&gt;, faces four charges under the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Terrorism Act 2000&lt;/span&gt;, he appeared at Bow Street Magistrates Court in central London. Following raids in Bolton last month, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Altimimi &lt;/span&gt;was arrested andaccused of possession of articles for the &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;purposes of terrorism&lt;/span&gt; and three counts of possessing records for the &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;purposes of terrorism&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Altimimi &lt;/span&gt;appeared alongside a second defendant, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Yusuf Abdullah, 29&lt;/span&gt;, also of Bolton. Both men face a separate charge of acquiring or possessing criminal property under the &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Proceeds Of Crime Act 2002&lt;/span&gt;. The accused spoke only to confirm their identities and give their addresses during the 10-minute hearing. District Judge Caroline Tubbs told the men that they would appear before Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in London by video link on August 4. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115246553016813164?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115246553016813164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115246553016813164&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115246553016813164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115246553016813164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/muslim-terrorists-in-court.html' title='Muslim Terrorists In Court'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115236605678855709</id><published>2006-07-08T14:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T04:46:37.343+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Whilst The Country Mourns</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/London%20Bus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/320/London%20Bus.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;Numerous reports around the country, allegedly claim that some Muslim areas held street parties on the first anniversary of the London Bombings - with police protection. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Whilst the country mourned and held a solem two minute silence for those murdered in last years tragedy, allegedly some Muslim areas celebrated openly the 'work' of the 'martyr' suicide bombers:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;"&gt;Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Germaine Lindsay, 19, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Shehzad Tanweer, 22.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115236605678855709?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115236605678855709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115236605678855709&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115236605678855709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115236605678855709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/whilst-country-mourns.html' title='Whilst The Country Mourns'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115236258646750511</id><published>2006-07-08T13:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T20:05:30.860+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Labour Offered Titles To Tycoons</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/_1359332_devileyes_pa150.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/200/_1359332_devileyes_pa150.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;It has been revealed last night that the British Police are investigating claims made against the Labour party that they had redrew its loan agreement with millionaire Curry tycoon, Sir Gulam Noon, in order to reel it back into line with party funding rules. According to documents detectives have detailing 'cash for honours', Sir Gulam Noon refused a peerage after he had lent Labour the sum of  £250,000 in secret.According to the funding laws, loans to political parties do not have to be declared but must be on commercial terms.The police will also be investigating allegations that rich tycoons were offered titles in return for cash handouts to parties.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115236258646750511?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115236258646750511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115236258646750511&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115236258646750511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115236258646750511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/labour-offered-titles-to-tycoons.html' title='Labour Offered Titles To Tycoons'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30796220.post-115229244886435687</id><published>2006-07-07T18:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T04:40:54.173+01:00</updated><title type='text'>London Bombings - One Year On</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/1600/images.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5273/3309/400/images.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;So, here we are folks, the first anniversary of the London bombings and it's exactly a year later since Tony Blair's 'getting tough on terrorists' speech. And since that speech TB has done NOTHING to remove the Muslim terrorist threat from this country, instead he's allowing Captain Hooky A.K.A Abu Hamza to be allowed out of prison to have an op on the N.H.S - funded by the very people (or as he knows us, 'the infidel pigs') that he wishes to kill and impose his religion of hatred on to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things are only getting better, eh Tony&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;A Right Wing Political Blog&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30796220-115229244886435687?l=theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/feeds/115229244886435687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30796220&amp;postID=115229244886435687&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115229244886435687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30796220/posts/default/115229244886435687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theroseandtheoakleaf.blogspot.com/2006/07/london-bombings-one-year-on_07.html' title='London Bombings - One Year On'/><author><name>The Rose &amp;amp; The Oak Leaf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13444654573640998854</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
