"McKevitt emerged after sentence had been passed to say: "I would like to appeal. However, he was refused permission to mount an appeal by the three sitting judges after failing to explain why."

An untouchable boss gets some.

Though, in my book, he should have been tortured to death over an extended period, and most of his family executed. Maybe that would stop idiots picking up the bomb to kill innocent people, just to get publicity for a cause. Are you listening uncle Osama?

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Other title(s) for this story: McKevitt sentenced to 20 years

"Blair has set up a ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas 'across Whitehall'. One expert on the relationship between politics and religion described the move as a 'blow to secularism'."

"...will also include representatives of the Jewish, Sikh, Muslim and Hindu faiths."

Anything that brings crazy religious nutters into power is a very bad thing. But in this article I also read too much about Blair's own religious beliefs.

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" Operation Rockingham, established by the Defence Intelligence Staff within the Ministry of Defence in 1991 , was set up to 'cherry-pick' intelligence proving an active Iraqi WMD programme and to ignore and quash intelligence which indicated that Saddam's stockpiles had been destroyed or wound down"

1991!!! What?

"Former CIA officer Larry Johnson said that to describe Saddam as an 'imminent threat' to the West was 'laughable and idiotic'. He said many CIA officers were in 'great distress' over the way intelligence had been treated. 'We've entered the world of George Orwell,' Johnson added. 'I'm disgusted. The truth has to be told. We can't allow our leaders to use bogus information to justify war.'"

There's far too much of this stuff leaking out. There has to be something in it.

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"The biggest jump in defence spending since the cold war boosted the US economy as it grew by an unexpectedly strong 2.4 % in the second quarter."

So they think it could be as much as 4% next quarter. What's their deficit? That's the really big story IMO.

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