Lib Dems to Announce Parliamentary Hopeful for Hampstead and Kilburn Seat

HAM&HIGH: The Liberal Democrat Party will tonight announce its parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn.

Among the party’s shortlist of five hopefuls is former Muslim extremist and author Maajid Nawaz, who set-up Quilliam – the world’s first counter-extremism think-tank. He was recruited into the hardline global Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir as a teenager and spent time in an Egyptian jail as a political prisoner before becoming a democracy campaigner.

Last year, he published a memoir entitled Radical, which recounts his journey from religious extremist to publicly renouncing Islamist ideology. » | Amie Keeley | Thursday, July 18, 2013

Colonel Gaddafi’s Son Buys £10 million Hampstead Mansion
Luxury: The £10m home in Hampstead boasts a swimming pool and sauna. Photo: Mail On Sunday
MAIL ON SUNDAY: The favourite son of Colonel Gaddafi, who played a key role in Abdelbaset Al Megrahi’s release, has bought a £10million home in one of London’s wealthiest and most 
prestigious suburbs.

The neo-Georgian eight-bedroom property bought by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in a secluded road in Hampstead, North London, boasts a swimming pool, sauna room, Jacuzzi and suede-lined cinema room where he will be able to monitor world events.

The house even has an electrically operated rubbish store, which raises and lowers eight bins into the ground before a steel plate folds over to hide them discreetly.

Last Thursday, Saif stepped off one of his father’s private planes at a military base in the Libyan capital Tripoli alongside Al Megrahi, who was welcomed by cheering crowds.

Al Megrahi’s release from a Scottish jail came just a fortnight after Business Secretary Lord Mandelson discussed the case with Saif during a holiday at the home of the Rothschild banking family on the Greek island of Corfu.

Yesterday, Lord Mandelson admitted he held another meeting with Saif in May.

The official meeting for trade talks took place less than three weeks after an agreement was ratified between Libya and the UK allowing prison transfers. >>> Christopher Leake and Daniel Boffey | Sunday, August 23, 2009