Nine suspected illegal migrants arrested at a lorry depot are on the run after police trusted them to make their own way to an immigration office more than 80 miles away. Cambridgeshire police seized the Afghan men as they were hiding in a lorry at a depot in the village of Fordham near Ely. They […]
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a cooperative military prison and detention camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002. The prison, established at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, holds people accused by the United States government of being terrorist operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending […]
Asif Zardari tipped as new PPP chief
ISLAMABAD: Just a few hours before her assassination on Thursday Benazir Bhutto informed Afghan President Hamid Karzai about threats to her life. She was also warned that her meeting with Karzai, just a few days before the Jan 8 elections, could also create more troubles for her. She was advised to avoid meeting Karzai because […]
Nigerian Police Turn to Gangster Tactics
The Nigerian police have long had a reputation for needless highhandedness and unjustified bloodlust. So embedded is this fearsome reputation in the popular imagination that Nigerians have taken to describing mobile police officers as “kill-and-go.” The picture is of officers quick to draw their guns, take aim at (usually) innocent citizens, and let out a […]
Key Lockerbie Witness Admits Perjury
[They] have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear … –Ezekiel 12:2The Lockerbie Affair has taken yet another extraordinary twist. Last month, I received from Edwin Bollier, head of the Zurich-based company MeBo AG, a copy of a German original of an affidavit. The document is dated July […]
Militants turn wedding bells into mourning in Kashmir
Abhishek Behl, Merinews.com A valiant officer of Jammu and Kashmir police, Shaily Singh was engaged to be married on June 27. He could have taken things easy and could have easily skipped his meeting with the militants, but he chose not to. Waiting for wedding bells to sound a sweet-sacred ring, the family of […]