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- British Soldiers Storm Iraqi Jail, Citing Torture
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  A significant number showed signs of torture. Some had crushed hands and feet, Major Burbridge said, while others had cigarette and electrical burns and a significant number had gunshot wounds to their legs and knees. The fetid dungeon was another example of abuses by the Iraqi security forces.
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- Warming Seas Drive Shoreline Species North
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  "Climate change is having a big impact on British shorelines," said Nova Mieszkowska of the Marine Biology Association, who led the four-year MarClim project to track the distribution of 57 species at more than 400 sites around the UK coastline.
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- Baby DNA idea sparks new concerns
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  This promises to be a fascinating debate: "However Liberty Legal Officer Anna Fairclough said: "A proposal like this begs the question - do we really want to turn a nation of citizens into a nation of suspects?"
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- Police fingerprinting patrols
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  Police will start taking fingerprints using portable electronic devices to identify suspects while out on patrol.
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- Why Tony Blair is Right About the Veil
  Posted by Billbar from Time
  Clearly, meaningful social exchange requires a face. And the argument that non-verbal communication is inessential only addresses half the problem. The obscured woman, who can see her interlocutor clearly through her slits, is enjoying contact with a face; it's the other party, conversing with a tiny black tent, that bears the burden of the discomfort. It's no coincidence the British debate surrounds a teaching assistant who refused to take off her full-face veil around male colleagues. Niqabs in school are an even more delicate issue than niqabs at the supermarket or the park, for teachers serve as role models to children, and the niqab sends a controversial message that may or may not be appropriate in the classroom.
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- Salman Rushdie says Muslim veils 'suck'
  Posted by Billbar from Thisislondon.c
  Rushdie, whose book The Satanic Verses triggered death threats from Islamic clerics, gave his full backing to Leader of the Commons Jack Straw for raising the issue. In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, held to mark the opening of a new joint exhibition with sculptor Amish Kapoor, he backed Mr Straw to the hilt. "Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there's not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted wearing the veil. "I think the battle against the veil has been a long and continuing battle against the limitation of women, so in that sense I'm completely on [Straw's] side. "He was expressing an important opinion, which is that veils suck, which they do. I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women."
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- British regiment marks end to N.Irish presence
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  The British Army marked another shift toward erasing military reminders of Northern Ireland's 30-year conflict on Friday with a parade to mark the disbanding of the Royal Irish Regiment. The UK has dismantled watchtowers along the border with the Irish Republic as part of the move and will halve the number of troops in the province, leaving a permanent military garrison of no more than 5,000.
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Jeff comments on:
Suppressed report shows cancer link to GM potatoes

Strange story – it’s a Russian study .. sorry if I’m skeptical … but the suppression must have been for a reason (not a good reason).

GMO is a disaster.

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Blair, Musharraf Pledge to Fight Terror

From the document obtained by the BBC:

The wars in Afghanistan and particularly Iraq have not gone well and are progressing slowly towards an as yet unspecified and uncertain result.

The War in Iraq…has acted as a recruiting sergeant for extremists from across the Muslim world.

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Details Emerge in British Terror Case
The NYT won't let UK readers access this article.
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