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video-sharing site YouTube as a way to disseminate propaganda videos, a U.S.-based terrorism
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width="1" height="1" //divpRadical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada yesterday had his bail revoked and
was returned to indefinite detention in a maximum security prison pending the outcome of a legal
battle over his deportation to Jordan./ppThe Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac), in
effect Britain's national security court, ruled that evidence from the security services, heard in
secret, had convinced them there was now an increased risk of Qatada absconding./ppQatada,
described by a Spanish judge as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, was released on bail in
June to live with his family in west London under a 22-hour curfew after the court of appeal ruled
it was unsafe to return him to Jordan./ppThe preacher has spent three and half years in maximum
security jails since he was first declared a risk to national security in January 2001 on the
grounds that he encouraged other extremists to commit acts of terrorism by providing religious
sanction for them./ppThe immigration judges said their decision to revoke his bail was based on the
evidence they had heard in secret: "The secretary of state relies on information contained in the
closed case to justify the revocation of bail." This remains confidential and is only spelled out
in a separate "closed" unpublished judgment./ppThe "open" version published yesterday said none of
the reasons put forward by the Home Office in the public sessions of the commission's two-day
hearing would justify the revocation of his bail. These included the seizure at his home of memory
cards, MP3 players, computer discs and videotapes./ppThey also rejected security service arguments
that the publication of a message from a senior al-Qaida figure on a website in July, appealing to
religious scholars to return to the "battlefield", and the pending government appeal to the House
of Lords against the decision not to deport him also increased the risk of him absconding. /ppThe
judges said it has been a long-standing assessment of the security services that Qatada, also known
as Mohammad Othman, is a senior religious extremist with links to al-Qaida and these factors in
themselves did not justify revoking bail./ppBefore the Siac hearing it had been reported that
Qatada was trying to flee the country but Mr Justice Mitting, sitting with two other judges, said
the cleric's declared interest in renouncing Jordanian citizenship and attempting to go to the
country of his birth, Palestine, did not amount to a breach of bail. They said they did not regard
as significant the fact he had not formally notified the Home Office of attempts on his behalf to
find a third country, other than Jordan, willing to take him. /pp"If the appellant identifies a
state or territory willing to receive him, and seeks to put into effect his declared wish to go
there, he will be fulfilling the obligation imposed on him by the deportation order to depart the
United Kingdom ... We do not, however, see any realistic prospect that either of these two
possibilities will be open to him in the near or medium term," they added./ppDuring the hearing
Qatada's barrister, Edward Fitzgerald QC, said his lawyer, Gareth Peirce, and writer Victoria
Brittain had been involved in the initial attempts to find a country willing to take him./ppThe
home secretary, Jacqui Smith, said she was pleased Qatada's bail had been revoked: "He poses a
significant threat to our national security and I am pleased that he will be detained pending his
deportation, which I'm working hard to secure." /ppQatada was in Belmarsh prison in east London
last night but is expected to be moved to Long Lartin maximum security/pdiv style="float: left;
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Cincinnati Christian University’s chief financial officer Robert Williams
arrested on gay 'sexual imposition' charges.
 Aussie Idol star Anthony Callea says coming out has had minimal
career impact: "You really have to be comfortable with yourself before you make that step.
Everybody has an opinion. People say, 'You should have been up front about it', but you need to
be comfortable. You don't want to get to 30 or 40 and be dealing with your sexuality. I wanted to
do it my way. I didn't want my label or management to be a part of it, I wanted to write my own
statement and express what I've gone through and dealt with."
Beyoncé and "Single Ladies" YouTube superstar Shane Mercadocome face-to-face at premiere of Cadillac Records.
Kentucky police officer convicted of murder of gay student who was
his lover.
Former gay prostitute turned Christian extremist Bill Whatcott terrorizing Edmonton,
Alberta residents with gay hate and anti-abortion flyers.
Roman Catholic priests
told not to offend gays with "heterosexist" language.
 Lance Bass on the
move?
Kalamazoo, Michigan approves
gay rights ordinance: "The city of Kalamazoo has stepped beyond existing state and federal
laws, making it illegal to use sexual orientation to discriminate in housing, public
accommodations and employment. The Kalamazoo City Commission voted 7-0 Monday night to adopt an
expanded anti-discrimination ordinance that makes it a municipal civil infraction to discriminate
against gays, lesbians and transgender citizens."
Graham Norton to join West
End La Cage Aux Folles revival.
 Nicolas Sarkozy doesn't have many new ideas, apparently.
David Gregory to host
Meet the Press.
Thatcham, UK man warned he may go to prison for
harassing his gay neighbors: "Philip Prior, aged 44, of Malthouse Close, was found guilty of
harassing his neighbours Stephen Guy and Glynn Morton. Reading Magistrates’ Court heard how
Mr Prior shouted homophobic comments, sang anti-gay songs and pinned gay pornographic images to
the outside of his neighbours’ home. Mr Prior denied the offence claiming that any song he
had sung was for his entertainment only. The court heard on Wednesday of last week how Mr Prior
regularly changed the words in song lyrics to make them sound anti-gay, which he would sing
loudly in his garden. Giving evidence, Mr Guy said he and his partner were subject to regular
taunts from the defendant. The taunts grew so bad that the couple started making notes of the
dates, times and details of all the comments."
Gay UK man kills lover on houseboat, stages cover up, court hears.
Report: Patrick Swayze's health
failing. Swayze responds.
One of Gossip Girl's allegedly gay duo spotted swapping
spit with female co-star.
 Brad Pitt rebuilds
New Orleans.
Producer Jon Peters slapped
with male sexual harassment suit: " In a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles Superior
Court, Brian Quintana - a co-producer with Peters on the upcoming 'Superman: Man of Steel' -
alleges that Peters subjected him to 'continuous and pervasive sexual harassment.' The suit
states there were 'multiple instances where he was physically, sexually harassed by Peters,
including being groped by male individuals at Peters' behest.' Peters would 'wrestle and rough up
[Quintana] in a sexual manner... fondle himself in front of [Quintana]...often place his hand on
[Quintana's] leg in a sexual manner,' as well as 'touch' his buttocks, the suit alleges. In
addition, according to the suit, Peters demanded that Quintana 'drive male individuals onto the
set for the purposes of granting sexual favors for members of the cast and crew [and] cover up
allegations that . . . Peters engaged in sexually inappropriate acts in front of children.'" (via
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TimesOnline: Britain -
15 hours and 35 minutes ago
Abu Qatada, the extremist preacher, is to be detained indefinitely in prison after a court ruling
that the risk of him absconding has increased.
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Guardian Unlimited -
16 hours and 42 minutes ago
divimg alt=""
src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/9118?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Thailand+PM+stripped+of+power+as+court+finds+government+guilty+of+corruptionch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Thailand+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Ian+MacKinnonc7=2008_12_02c8=1127347c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Thailandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FThailand"
width="1" height="1" //divpThe political crisis that has paralysed Thailand and stranded as many as
300,000 international travellers took a dramatic turn today when a court disbanded the ruling party
and banned the prime minister from office./ppJudges from the constitutional court found the People
Power party (PPP) and two senior coalition partners guilty of electoral fraud for vote-buying in
last December's general election and barred the prime minister, Somchai Wongsawat, from office for
five years./ppBut hopes that an altered political landscape might satisfy the anti-government
protesters and bring a swift end to the week-long blockade at Bangkok's two airports were dimmed
when the ruling coalition's six parties signalled their intention to reform under a new
banner./ppThe ruling also raised the spectre of street violence after government supporters angered
by the judges' widely expected decision surrounded the Bangkok court and refused to allow the
judiciary to leave the building./ppOvernight, a grenade was thrown from a flyover near Bangkok's
barricaded domestic Don Muang terminal, killing one person and injuring 22 other sleeping
protesters./ppAnalysts portrayed the situation on the ground as extremely volatile, while others
said the judges' decision made with uncharacteristic haste was tantamount to a covert coup through
which a royalist-military elite sought to strip the elected government of power./pp"Thailand is in
the middle of a crisis," said Sunai Thasuk, of Human Rights Watch, who was at the courthouse. "The
government supporters are very, very upset. The climate is very volatile and both sides have been
known to use violence against each other. It's a highly dangerous situation."/ppBritons caught by
the shutdown of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International airport a week ago told of their fears over
the political turmoil, and mounting frustrations over their inability to find a way to leave the
country./ppBut one glimmer of hope came as the international airport today reopened to cargo
flights, reducing the economic impact of lost export earnings, estimated to be £53m
daily./ppDemonstrators for the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy, who invaded
Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang to demand the government quit and Somchai step down, were overjoyed when
they heard the verdict./pp"My heart is happy," said Pailin Jampapong, 41, choking back tears of joy
among the throng at Suvarnabhumi. "My friends are very happy."/ppImmediately after the decision to
disband the PPP, Machima Thipatai and Chart Thai parties, Somchai said he would abide by the rule
of law and stand aside, describing it as "not a problem. I was not working for myself. Now I will
be a full-time citizen."/ppBut the ruling that bans Somchai and 36 party executives and MPs does
not prevent the PPP rump reforming. They immediately signalled they would move to the new party of
Puea Thai (For Thailand) - a measure not barred by the constitution./ppThe former minister Jakrapob
Penkair, a close confidante of the ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, said the court's
decision came as no surprise. "Our members are determined to move on and we will form a government
again out of the majority that we believe we still have," he said./ppBut Giles Ungpakorn, a
political scientist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, accused the "fascist Pad", judges and
the monarchist-military elite in the capital of staging a "judicial coup" to rob the rural poor
government supporters of their rights./pp"The majority of the Thai population, who are poor, face a
double whammy," he said. "First, the elite royalists are doing everything possible to take away
their basic democratic rights. Secondly, mass job losses are occurring among workers in the tourist
industry as a result of the airport blockade. The Pad protesters are middle-class extremists who
don't have to go to work."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia
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17 hours and 28 minutes ago
divimg alt=""
src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/31756?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Mumbai+attacks%3A+India+demands+Pakistan+hand+over+terror+suspectsch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Mumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CWorld+news%2CUS+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Julian+Borger%2CVikram+Dodd%2CMark+Tranc7=2008_12_02c8=1127301c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Mumbai+terror+attacksc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FMumbai+terror+attacks"
width="1" height="1" //divpIndia today downplayed the possibility of military action in response to
the Mumbai attacks but demanded that Islamabad hand over suspected terrorists believed to be in
Pakistan./pp"Nobody is talking of military action," India's foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee,
told reporters when asked what action might be taken./ppIndian investigators have said the attacks
that killed at least 172 people last week were carried out by militants from Lashkar-e-Taiba, a
Kashmiri extremist group based in Pakistan./ppMukherjee said a list of about 20 names was given to
Pakistan's high commissioner to India at a meeting last night. India has already demanded that
Pakistan take "strong action" against those responsible for the attacks, and the US has put
pressure on Islamabad to cooperate./ppCondoleezza Rice yesterday called for full Pakistani
cooperation with the investigation into the Mumbai attacks, saying they represented a "critical
moment" in the new civilian government's efforts to stamp its authority on Pakistan's security
services./ppThe outgoing secretary of state said she did not want to "jump to conclusions", but
made it clear during a visit to London that she expected Islamabad would have to answer for the
attacks./ppRice, who is due to arrive in India tomorrow, urged its government to focus on the
investigation of the attacks, and to avoid actions that might have "unintended consequences", such
as troop manoeuvres./ppThe Indian government has claimed the attackers trained in
Pakistan./ppIslamabad has denied any involvement, but has warned that it might have to transfer
forces from its western tribal areas, where they are fighting Islamic extremist groups, to its
eastern border with India if there were threatening moves by Indian troops./ppThe Indian
authorities have been releasing parts of their case against Pakistan to the media. Yesterday Indian
media reported intelligence sources as saying an email claiming responsibility for the attack had
been traced to an internet address in Lahore./ppThere were signs yesterday that India was winning
the diplomatic tussle. A western diplomatic source said India's claims that extremist elements in
Pakistan were involved in the attack were being widely believed, and that Pakistan's warning that
it would have to move troops away from the Afghan border was being interpreted as "a threat" to
western interests./ppSpeaking to reporters in London yesterday, Rice directed most of her remarks
to the newly elected government of President Asif Ali Zardari./pp"President Zardari has said
rightly that extremism in any form is a threat to Pakistan as well as India. So I fully expect the
commitment of Pakistan to absolute transparency and wherever the leads go, to follow them up," Rice
said./ppThe civilian government's control over Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI)
came into question last week when the prime minister, Yousef Raza Gilani, announced he would
dispatch the agency's new director general, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, to India to
discuss the attack, only for the offer to be withdrawn within hours. A more junior ISI
representative was promised instead./ppMost foreign observers believe at least some ISI officers
still harbour sympathy for Islamic extremist groups and turn a blind eye to their terrorist
activities./ppRice did not mention the ISI yesterday but made clear she believed the time had come
for Pakistan's government to ensure different parts of its security apparatus were not pursuing
separate agendas./pp"Everyone knows that you don't have day one with a military government and day
two with a civilian government," Rice said. "But this is a critical moment for Pakistan to bring
all its institutions into a common strategy to defend Pakistan. And defending Pakistan means
rooting out extremism, defending Pakistani interests means cooperating fully, defending Pakistani
interests means investigating this so further attacks can be prevented."/ppRice said she was flying
to New Delhi tomorrow "to show solidarity" and offer help with the investigation and
counter-terrorism measures. She would also be discouraging the escalation of the
situation./ppIndia's high commissioner in London said last night the attacks were "probably" aimed
at derailing peace talks between India and Pakistan, which had been given a boost by the election
of a new democratic government in Islamabad./ppShiv Shankar Mukherjee told Sky News that India had
made no "aggressive moves" since the attack, but warned that the peace process between the two
countries was "under pressure"./ppBut he added that "over the last few months we've been having a
terrorist attack virtually every month in India. And we've leaned over backwards and have gone the
extra mile ... to see that the dialogue succeeds, because there is no alternative, except peaceful
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1 days and 2 hours ago
divimg alt=""
src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/38762?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Rice+urges+Pakistan+to+cooperate+fully+with+investigationch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Mumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CUS+news%2CWorld+news%2CTerrorism+-+internationalc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Vikram+Dodd%2CJulian+Borgerc7=2008_12_02c8=1127164c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Mumbai+terror+attacksc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FMumbai+terror+attacks"
width="1" height="1" //divpCondoleezza Rice yesterday called on full Pakistani cooperation with the
investigation into the Mumbai attacks, saying they represented a "critical moment" in the new
civilian government's efforts to wrest control of Pakistan's security services./ppThe outgoing US
secretary of state said she did not want to "jump to conclusions", but made it clear during a visit
to London yesterday that she expected Islamabad would have to answer for the attacks which left
nearly 200 people dead last week./ppRice, who is due to arrive in India tomorrow, urged its
government to focus on the investigation of the attacks, and to avoid actions that might have
"unintended consequences", such as troop manoeuvres./ppThe Indian government has claimed the
attackers had trained in Pakistan, while the Indian press has claimed they were members of a
Kashmiri extremist organisation based in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba. The Indian foreign ministry
yesterday summoned the Pakistani high commissioner to call for "strong action" against the
perpetrators./ppPakistan has denied any involvement, but has warned that it might have to transfer
forces from its western tribal areas, where they are fighting Islamic extremist groups, to its
eastern border with India if there were threatening moves by Indian troops./ppThe Indian
authorities have been releasing parts of their case against Pakistan to the media. Yesterday Indian
media reported intelligence sources as saying an email claiming responsibility for the attack had
been traced to an internet address in Lahore./ppThere were signs yesterday that India was winning
the diplomatic tussle. A western diplomatic source said India's claims that extremist elements in
Pakistan were involved in last week's attack were being widely believed, and that Pakistan's
warning that it would have to move troops away from the Afghan border was being interpreted as "a
threat" to western interests./ppSpeaking to reporters in London yesterday, Rice directed most of
her remarks to the newly elected government of President Asif Ali Zardari./pp"President Zardari has
said rightly that extremism in any form is a threat to Pakistan as well as India. So I fully expect
the commitment of Pakistan to absolute transparency and wherever the leads go, to follow them up,"
Rice said./ppThe civilian government's control over Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency
(ISI) came into question last week when the prime minister, Yousef Raza Gilani, announced he would
dispatch the agency's new director general, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, to India to
discuss the attack, only for the offer to be withdrawn within hours. A more junior ISI
representative was promised instead./ppMost foreign observers believe at least some ISI officers
still harbour sympathy for Islamic extremist groups and turn a blind eye to their terrorist
activities. /ppRice did not mention the ISI yesterday but made clear she believed the time had come
for the Pakistan's government to make sure that different parts of its security apparatus were not
pursuing separate agendas./pp"Everyone knows that you don't have day one with a military government
and day two with a civilian government," Rice said. "But this is a critical moment for Pakistan to
bring all its institutions into a common strategy to defend Pakistan. And defending Pakistan means
rooting out extremism, defending Pakistani interests means cooperating fully, defending Pakistani
interests means investigating this so further attacks can be prevented."/ppRice said she was flying
to New Delhi tomorrow "to show solidarity" and offer help with the investigation and
counter-terrorism measures. She would also be discouraging the escalation of the
situation./ppBritain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, said the attacks had put Pakistani-Indian
relations, which had been improving since the election of a civilian government in Islamabad, to a
severe test./pp"Now these are under the greatest possible scrutiny and the greatest possible
strain," Miliband said. "I think it is precisely at this moment of strain and scrutiny that we need
very strong statesmanship and leadership so that it is joint action and cooperative action that
will make the difference."/ppIndia's high commissioner in London said last night that the attacks
were "probably" aimed at derailing peace talks between India and Pakistan, which had been given a
boost by the election of a new democratic government in Islamabad./ppShiv Shankar Mukherjee, told
Sky News that India had made no "aggressive moves" since the attack, but warned that the peace
process between the two countries was "under pressure"./ppBut he added that "over the last few
months, we've been having a terrorist attack virtually every month in India. And we've leaned over
backwards and have gone the extra mile ... to see that the dialogue succeeds, because there is no
alternative, except peaceful dialogue to resolve our problems."/pdiv style="float: left;
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