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Friday, 27 April, 2007

  • Newsnight
  • 27 Apr 07, 06:46 PM

Abd al-Hadi al-IraqiMore than 170 terror suspects are arrested by Saudi authorities while the US says it has captured leading al Qaeda figure Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi. Is there a connection or is there more to these arrests than meets the eye?

Plus: Paul Mason looks at the IMF report that suggests the UK is a tax haven for the super rich; and David Lomax considers the legacy of Mstislav Rostropovich, genius and a world renowned cellist, who has died in Moscow.

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Call me disingenuous but are these state sponsored terrorists or just splitists (Life of Brian reference) hung out to dry?

  • 2.
  • At 11:44 PM on 27 Apr 2007,
  • Mark wrote:

Now the issue of how to extract all of the information someone who is an enemy of the United States and knows a lot about what attacks on it are in various stages of planning have become much more than hypothetical again. The former director of the CIA testified before Congress this week that waterboarding and other stressful methods of interrogation had yielded a great deal of very valuable information. I think they will be used again. Just a hunch.

  • 3.
  • At 05:28 PM on 29 Apr 2007,
  • csharp wrote:

can you confirm there was a bbc crew on board the helicopter that got sent back to hms cornwall leaving the boarding party exposed and if so why was that kept quiet?

  • 4.
  • At 08:57 PM on 29 Apr 2007,
  • SM wrote:

Rostropovich will be sadly missed - not just for his virtuoso playing but as a fair-minded, free thinking defending of rights.
'Slava' may have gone but his music lives on...

  • 5.
  • At 09:01 PM on 29 Apr 2007,
  • Mills wrote:

Mark

The chances are that these guys were not picked up due the intelligence gathered from detainees held in guantanamo. Anything useful was tortured out of those in that tiny corner of cuba long ago. And the US still doesn't know what to do with them. Guantanamo is up there with the Soviet gulags frankly.

  • 6.
  • At 05:56 PM on 01 May 2007,
  • Mark wrote:

Mills, you don't have a clue about the Soviet Gulags. Why don't you read the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn like I did. In it you will learn that many millions of people from all over the USSR were imprisoned mostly at random to terrorize the entire population of the Soviet Union in service of a paranoid psychopath Joseph Stalin who would periodically have even his own closest associates executed if he felt threatened by them. Comparing that to a relative handful of captives who were taken prisoner in a foreign countries and are strongly and rightfully suspected of being part of a demonstrated plot to destroy the United States is an entirely different matter and I am not surprised that people in Europe who would slander America because of their own hatred and jealousy of it are ignorant as well.

Im looking forwards to web2.0 - i read somewhere (ages ago) that wiki's were the original concept for websites and that the content supposed to be edited online etc?? - lets hope google and MS dont spoil it for everyone...

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