Iraq protest officer says US behaved ‘like Nazis’
AN RAF doctor facing a court-martial for refusing a posting to Iraq said yesterday he believed the United States to be the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany.
Flight Lieutenant Dr Malcolm Kendall-Smith could face an unlimited jail sentence for disobeying an order to go to Iraq last year, [...]

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I young RAF Dr, flight Lieutenant Dr Malcolm Kendall-Smith, is court-martialled because of his refusal to take part in the illegal war in Iraq.
He said: “I refused the order to serve in Iraq out of duty to international law, the Nuremberg Principles and the law of armed conflict.”
When interviewed, Kendall-Smith said: “I believe [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said on Wednesday.
Detectives halted the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport and Harraj Mann, 24, was taken off.
The taxi driver had [...]

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[He is only a little boy for heaven sake-ed]
Legal proceedings against a 10-year-old boy over alleged racist name-calling have been labelled political correctness gone mad, by a judge.
The boy from Irlam, Greater Manchester, was summonsed to court accused of racially abusing a fellow pupil.
Judge Jonathan Finestein told Salford Youth Court the boys would [...]

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A British cameraman shot dead in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli soldier was murdered, an inquest jury has decided.
James Miller, 34, from Devon, was shot by a soldier from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) while making a film in a Palestinian refugee camp in 2003.
An Israeli investigation in April 2005 cleared a [...]

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A nurse has been stabbed to death in a park behind a hospital.
Police said a murder inquiry had begun after the woman was attacked at St George’s in Hornchurch, in the London Borough of Havering.
The woman, in her 30s, had been stabbed several times and was pronounced dead at the scene. No-one has been [...]

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A lesbian estate agent has claimed she was sacked from a gay-friendly company because she was pregnant.
Corrina Slow told a Brighton tribunal that she was dismissed as the manager of the 2Let office in Hove after she told her boss she was 16 weeks pregnant.
2Let has previously sponsored Brighton Pride and claims to be [...]

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Police officers will be asked to declare their sexuality, according to a new paper to be produced by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
The policy, which will be presented to the equality committee of the Metropolitan Police Authority, is expected to set out plans to gain an accurate quota of gay and lesbian officers in [...]

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LONDON’S suicide bombings were not the acts of terrorists but just an extreme Muslim demonstration, a Chester professor has claimed.
The attacks that killed 52 people and threw the country into shock last July were part of a long history of demonstrations sparked by British Muslims, according to Professor Ron Geaves.

His controversial comments were [...]

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[A bunch of accountants calling British workers lazy, I have heard it all now. How many of them on the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee have ever done a days graft in their lives?-edc]
LONDON: Are British workers becoming too lazy to compete with India’s booming economy?
Yes, according to Peter Luff, chairman [...]

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The UK Independence Party is calling for David Cameron to apologise after he claimed its members were “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly”.
The Conservative leader made the remarks during a phone-in on the London radio station LBC.
He said he believed UKIP was “racist” because of some of the things he had heard its [...]

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16:40hrs Breaking news – an attempt by Swedish Communists to murder BNP Chairman, Nick Griffin and his wife has been foiled by Swedish police.

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For almost 60 years, the evidence of Britain’s clandestine torture programme in postwar Germany has lain hidden in the government’s files.
Harrowing photographs of young men who had survived being systematically starved, as well as beaten, deprived of sleep and exposed to extreme cold, were considered too shocking to be seen.

As one minister of the [...]

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