Drug surge follows change in law
The News Review:
- Drug surge follows change in law
- Going back to Fallujah: an insurgent’s angry end
- The French resistance
Drug surge follows change in law
Guardian Unlimited - Feb 20, 2005
The Met’s Assistant Commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur, who heads Scotland Yard’s specialist crime directorate, described the finds as ’some of the biggest hauls of cannabis ever recovered’. Large seizures have also been made in Norfolk and Sussex in recent weeks. Reclassification is also blamed on an increase in the amount of home-grown cannabis entering the market. Last year, police in London uncovered one of the biggest cannabis farms in a south London warehouse, which used more than 6,500 plants to produce £1m of the drug each year. No official figures for London or the rest of England and Wales are available, but the concerns within the Met echo those of police in Scotland. With three months to run until the end of the statistical year, provisional figures show there has already been a 14 per cent increase in the amount of cannabis resin seized across the country. In Fife, seizures have risen tenfold in the past year.
Going back to Fallujah: an insurgent’s angry end
Seattle Times - Feb 20, 2005
He was ready for martyrdom. ” Abu Gailan Abu Shaiba’s younger brother –>. troops, as well as their growing distrust of “foreign Arabs. ” –> BAGHDAD, Iraq — On a piece of paper torn from a notebook and folded four times, writing in Arabic that was at once reserved and casual, Saadi Mohammed Abu Shaiba penned what would be his last testament. To his childhood friend Abu Sufyan, he declared that he was returning to Fallujah, where he and his family had left their home at the height of the U.
The French resistance
The Age - Feb 20, 2005
There is quite simply nothing at all rump-like there. As they sayin the cafes of Montmartre and Madeleine, vive la difference. Richard Mowe, who has run the French Film Festival in London andEdinburgh for the past 14 years, says the success of France’shome-grown film industry has been nurtured by various practicalgovernment initiatives: substantial subsidies for first- andsecond-time filmmakers; well-funded film schools; an obligation ontelevision stations to show French films; and a complex system ofsubsidies funded by a levy on all box-office receipts, a measureregarded with fury by the US studios, which believe they arethereby helping to fund their direct competition. “Most French films end up screening on television,” says Mowe. “Also, so many French directors come up through a completelysupported short-film system: there is both a structure to theindustry and an acceptance that this is something you should beable to do. So it isn’t a struggle. Sometimes you wish it were moreof a struggle, but at least people get the opportunity to get theirhands on a camera.