UK Bomb Plot Raises Questions
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- UK Bomb Plot Raises Questions
- Commentary: Home-grown drivers one big way to fix open-wheel racing
- Tesco investors attack executive bonus plan
- Garden in San Bernardino’s Westside sows seeds of community
- Encroe Presentation: The War Within
- Sugiyama v Sharapova as it happened
- Coleman ‘can shine at Sociedad’
UK Bomb Plot Raises Questions
Wall Street Journal - Wall Street Journal (subscription) - Jun 30, 2007
The planned attacks came on the third day in office for Britain’s new prime minister, Gordon Brown. London has been on high alert to the threat posed by home-grown Islamic radicals since four of them killed 56 people, including themselves, during attacks on London’s transportation system in July 2005. Scotland Yard has had recent success foiling plots, including last summer’s plan to blow up trans-Atlantic flights. The challenge facing British intelligence is immense, because it is attempting to monitor home-grown radicals who can link up with international terrorist networks or simply draw inspiration from them. Former director general of MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence operation, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, said her agency and police must contend with 200 networks with some 1,600 identified individuals, including extremists motivated by perceived grievances against the Muslim world by the West, in a rare public speech last November. British nationals who took part in the plots in 2005 and 2006 showed minimal signs of radicalism.
Commentary: Home-grown drivers one big way to fix open-wheel racing
Albuquerque Tribune - Jun 30, 2007
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Tesco investors attack executive bonus plan
The Independent - Independent - Jun 30, 2007
Tim Mason, the president of the US operations and chief executive of Fresh & Easy, has defended the remuneration scheme and said the US business was Sir Terry’s idea. He said the Tesco chief wrote the business plan with the working title Fresh & Easy more than two years ago. Mr Mason said the chain would differentiate itself from its home-grown competitors by offering healthy convenience foods for families. “Modern supermarket shopping in the US does not always reflect modern life in America,” he added. The New Economics Foundation, a think-tank, called on the Competition Commission yesterday to include an assessment of evidence of Tesco’s “growing level of dominance” and the plight of workers overseas in its inquiry into the major supermarkets. Policy director Andrew Simms said it would take “more than 47,000 years for one of the Bangladeshi workers, who earns about 5p an hour making garments for sale in Tesco, to earn what Sir Terry was paid last year - and that does not include the chief executives’ extra share award”.
Garden in San Bernardino’s Westside sows seeds of community
Press-Enterprise - Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Jun 30, 2007
“This is really exciting for me. I wasn't born in the country. I missed all that,” she said, referring to home-grown produce. “This is a great chance, at my age, to finally have a garden. Jeanne-Marie Lovell and her husband, Matt Lovell, headed straight for the sign-up sheet, saying they couldn't wait to get their hands dirty. Story continues below.
Encroe Presentation: The War Within
CNN International - Jun 30, 2007
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can hear and see the choppers. ANNONCER: Now, Amanpour reports. AMANPOUR: It’s been dubbed Londonistan, the hidden world of London’s home-grown Islamic extremists. They are a tiny minority of Britain’s 1. 6 million Muslims, but they have no trouble getting their voices heard. ANJEM CHOUDARY, MUSLIM RADICAL: One day, you will conquer Rome! One day, one day you will conquer the White House! AMANPOUR: Anjem Choudary is the public face of Islamic extremism in Britain. His group, Amwar Jaroun (ph) disbanded before the British government could outlaw it under its new anti-terrorism rules, but that hasn’t shut Choudary up… If the British-born Muslims really want to do something to stop people damaging Islam, then start reading up on your book, explain it to your children, come out of your denial phase. They only conspirers against Islam, at the moment, right? And the biggest threat to Islam at the moment is our enemies within. (END VIDEOTAPE) MUSIC VIDEO: Gonna build a dirty bomb, use the spirit of religion and education. AMANPOUR: Bombs and in the backlash, seeping even into song, how far will it go? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MUSIC VIDEO: I reject your truth because it’s all a lie, reject your proof, like American pie. AMANPOUR (voice over): Rejection has been Aki Nawaz’s thing since the days of punk rock. His latest blast against the system and his angry new album, sum up what many young British Muslims reject today, the war in Iraq, the war against terror, and all its infamous abuses. SINGER: Reject war and terror AMANPOUR (on camera): Why is the cover of your album so provocative? AKI NAWAZ, DIRECTOR, NATION RECORDS: It’s provocative because I find, now it represents American foreign policy, which is far more provocative than any other piece of artwork has ever been.
Sugiyama v Sharapova as it happened
BBC News - Jun 30, 2007
And the players are ready now, Sugiyama to serve first. 1454: I’ll be honest, I’ve just come away from covering the French Grand Prix qualifying so apologies if I start comparing either player to finely-tuned engines and the like. Good to see young Lewis Hamilton continuing to fly the flag for us Britons in F1, which is more than can be said of the efforts of our home-grown players at Wimbledon. Still, it gives us all an opportunity to choose who to get behind in SW19, so I’m backing Sharapova to ease through this test. 1448: Finally, after hours of annoying rain - fine rain, soaks you through, as Peter Kay would say - the players emerge to begin their warm-ups. Lord only knows who I have wronged to be stuck with covering Maria Sharapova again but, hey, I’m willing to take this one for the team.
Coleman ‘can shine at Sociedad’
BBC News - Jun 30, 2007
Coleman, though, will have no such delicate climate to face when he becomes the second Welshman after John Toshack to manage the club. He will also have the distinct advantage of arriving with a glowing reference from Toshack, still a highly respected figure at the club. “It was quite a difficult time politically when I joined, but I just let the football do the talking and won the fans over fairly quickly,” said Aldridge, who played under Toshack during his second season at Sociedad. “I left the gate open for others to follow.