Stephen Timms Knife Attack: CCTV Shows Moment Muslim Woman Stabs MP
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: This is the moment caught on CCTV when Roshonara Choudhry stabbed former Labour minister Stephen Timms in the stomach.

CCTV shows Roshonara Choudhry, right, waiting to meet Stephen Timms. Her right hand is concealed. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
Armed with a three-inch kitchen knife, the 21-year-old student smiled before plunging the knife twice into the MP.

Grainy images filmed in the local community centre and released on Tuesday show Choudhry walking up to Mr Timms’ desk.

They emerged at the end of a two-day trial in which she was convicted of attempted murder and two counts of possessing an offensive weapon.

Choudhry refused to go to the Old Bailey because she did not accept the authority of the court and will be sentenced via videolink on Wednesday.

The CCTV footage of the attack showed her wearing floor length black Islamic robes, her head covered by a scarf and her face can be clearly seen. >>> Caroline Gammell | Tuesday, November 02, 2010

How long is it going to be before our mentally-challenged leaders figure out that these barbarians really don’t belong in the civilized West? – © Mark

David Cameron Hails 'New Chapter' in Britain-France Military Co-operation
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: David Cameron has hailed a "new chapter" in the history of defence co-operation between Britain and France after two signing two treaties with President Nicolas Sarkozy.


The Prime Minister and the French president signed agreements for greater military co-operation including aircraft carriers, submarines, nuclear technology and ground forces.

As part of the agreement, the two countries will share aircraft carrier capability.

When France’s single carrier is out of service, Britain’s one vessel could conduct missions for both nations, and vice versa.

Mr Cameron said the British Prime Minister said citizens of both countries would be "better protected" as a result of the two treaties.

"Today we open a new chapter in a long history of co-operation on defence and security between Britain and France," Mr Cameron told a press conference at the Anglo-French Summit in London.

"The result will make our citizens safer, more secure and better protected in the global age of uncertainty in which we now live," Mr Cameron said.

Mr Sarkozy said the “unprecedented” agreement marked “a level of trust and confidence between the two countries never equalled in history.” Read on and comment >>> James Kirkup, Political correspondent | Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Tosh & Poppycock from the Bliar! Tony Blair - Islam & Muslims in the West Today

Lauren Booth Explains Why She Fell In Love with Islam
NEWS.COM.AU: LAUREN Booth, a broadcaster, journalist and sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, defiantly explains her conversion to Islam.

"It is the most peculiar journey of my life. The carriage is warm and my fellow passengers unexpectedly welcoming. We are progressing ­rapidly and without delay. Rain, snow, rail unions, these things make no difference to the forward rush.

Yet I have no idea how I came to be on board nor, stranger still, quite where the train is heading, apart from this: the destination, wherever it might be, is the most important place I can imagine.

I know this all seems gloriously far-fetched, but really it is how I feel about my conversion, announced last week, to Islam.

Although the means and ­mechanisms that brought me to this point remain mysterious, the decision will determine every aspect of my life to come as firmly as the twin rails beneath that exhilarating express.

Asked for a simple explanation of how I, an English hack journalist, a ­single working mother, signed up to the Western media’s least-favourite religion, I suppose I would point to an intensely spiritual experience in an Iranian mosque just over a month ago.

But it makes more sense to go back to January 2005, when I arrived alone in the West Bank to cover the elections there for The Mail on Sunday. It is safe to say that before that visit I had never spent any time with Arabs, or Muslims.

The whole experience was a shock, but not for the reasons I might have expected. So much of what we know about this part of the world and the people who follow Mohammed the Prophet is based on ­disturbing - some would say biased - news bulletins.

So, as I flew towards the Middle East, my mind was full of the usual 10pm buzz­words: radical extremists, fanatics, forced marriages, suicide bombers and jihad. Not much of a travel brochure.

My very first experience, though, could hardly have been more positive. I had arrived on the West Bank without a coat, as the Israeli airport authorities had kept my suitcase.

Walking around the centre of Ramallah, I was shivering, whereupon an old lady grabbed my hand.

Talking rapidly in Arabic, she took me into a house on a side street. Was I being kidnapped by a rather elderly terrorist? For several confusing minutes I watched her going through her daughter’s wardrobe until she pulled out a coat, a hat and a scarf.

I was then taken back to the street where I had been walking, given a kiss and sent warmly on my way. There had been not a single comprehensible word exchanged between us. >>> Lauren Booth | From: Mail on Sunday |November 01, 2010

Anwar al-Awlaki Charged in Yemen with Crimes Against Foreigners
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anwar al-Awlaki, the man believed to be behind the cargo plane bomb plot, is tried in his absence in Yemen for crimes against foreigners.

Yemen, under pressure to crack down on militants operating there after a foiled bomb plot involving US-bound parcels, began the trial in absentia on Tuesday of the radical US-born preacher, wanted dead or alive by Washington.

Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to a failed bombing of a US-bound plane in December 2009 that was claimed by Yemen's al Qaeda wing, is thought to be hiding in southern Yemen.

Also on Tuesday, the trial of a Yemeni journalist and al-Qaeda expert was set to continue in Sanaa. Abdulelah Shai is being tried for alleged links to al-Qaeda, including helping to publicise the views of Anwar al-Awlaki. >>> Telegraph’s Foreign Staff | Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Prisoners to Get the Vote for the First Time
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Prisoners will be given the vote in general elections for the first time in 140 years after David Cameron conceded there was nothing he could do to halt a European court ruling demanding the change, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

For months, the Government’s lawyers have tried to find a way to avoid allowing 70,000 British inmates the right to take part in ballots.

But tomorrow a representative for the Coalition will tell the Court of Appeal that the law will be changed following legal advice that the taxpayer could have to pay tens of millions of pounds in compensation.

The decision, which brings to an end six years of government attempts to avoid the issue, opens the possibility that even those facing life sentences for very serious crimes could in future shape Britain’s elections. >>> Andrew Porter, Political Editor | Monday, November 01, 2010

Saudi Arabian Clerics Issue Fatwa Ruling That Women Cannot Work As Supermarket Cashiers
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Saudi Arabia's top clerics have challenged the government's policy to expand jobs for women with a fatwa ruling that they should not work as cashiers in supermarkets, according to reports.

Saudi seamstresses working at a factory in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
The Council of Senior Scholars, the official fatwa issuing body, said that "it is not permissible for a woman to work in a place where they mix with men," the news website Sabq.org said.

"It is necessary to keep away from places where men congregate. Women should look for decent work that does not make it possible for them to attract men or be attracted by men," it said. >>> | Monday, November 01, 2010

QE2 Risks Currency Wars and the End of Dollar Hegemony
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: As the US Federal Reserve meets today to decide whether its next blast of quantitative easing should be $1 trillion or a more cautious $500bn, it does so knowing that China and the emerging world view the policy as an attempt to drive down the dollar.

QE2 risks currency wars and the end of dollar hegemony. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
The Fed's "QE2" risks accelerating the demise of the dollar-based currency system, perhaps leading to an unstable tripod with the euro and yuan, or a hybrid gold standard, or a multi-metal "bancor" along lines proposed by John Maynard Keynes in the 1940s.

China's commerce ministry fired an irate broadside against Washington on Monday. "The continued and drastic US dollar depreciation recently has led countries including Japan, South Korea, and Thailand to intervene in the currency market, intensifying a 'currency war'. In the mid-term, the US dollar will continue to weaken and gaming between major currencies will escalate," it said.

David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the root problem is lack of underlying demand in the global economy, leaving Western economies trapped near stalling speed. "There are no policy levers left. Countries are having to tighten fiscal policy, and interest rates are already near zero. The last resort is a weaker currency, so everybody is trying to do it," he said.

Pious words from G20 summit of finance ministers last month calling for the world to "refrain" from pursuing trade advantage through devaluation seem most honoured in the breach.

Taiwan intervened on Monday to cap the rise of its currency, while Korea's central bank chief said his country is eyeing capital controls as part of its "toolkit" to stem the flood of Fed-created money leaking out of the US and sloshing into Asia. Brazil has just imposed a 2pc tax on inflows into both bonds and equities – understandably, since the real has risen by 35pc against the dollar this year and the country has a current account deficit.

"It is becoming harder to mop up the liquidity flowing into these countries," said Neil Mellor, of the Bank of New York Mellon. "We fully expect more central banks to impose capital controls over the next couple of months. That is the world we live in," he said. Globalisation is unravelling before our eyes. Read on and comment >>> Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor | Monday, November 01, 2010

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Midterms 2010: Democrats to Pay Heavily for Failure on Jobs
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Americans are set in Tuesday's midterm elections to make their president and Democrats pay heavily for their failure to stem unemployment amid gathering fears that the American dream has moved beyond reach for a generation.

In poll after poll in the long run-up to the midterm elections, voters have said that the economy was their main concern. Unemployment has risen by 20 per cent under Mr Obama, remaining stuck on or close to 9.6 per cent for since May 2009.

Julietta Strauss, of New York, lost her administrative job with the US census bureau in March, and has struggled to find work since.

More and more people were taking an "apocalyptic view" of America's prospects, she said. "The general word on the street seems to be that middle-class jobs are disappearing, and while there's an increasing tendency for the rich to get richer, middle-class wages are stagnant," she said.

At the Tailhook Tavern in Philadelphia, a city visited by Mr Obama in his final campaign swing, Joseph Carroll said he had not had steady work for two years. "The economy sucks. They talk about trickle down but we don't see it round here," said the 44-year-old, who specialises in fire suppressants in new constructions. "They bailed out the banks, they are making billions in profits again, they are making millions in bonuses again, but they don't want to lend to people who want to build up businesses." >>> Alex Spillius in Washington and Jon Swaine in New York | Monday, November 01, 2010

Bewegender Abschied: Loki Schmidt "bestellte" selber ihre Trauerrede
WELT ONLINE: Am Ende konnte auch Helmut Schmidt seine Tränen nicht zurückhalten. Seine Frau Loki hatte die Trauerfeier selber mit vorbereitet.

Mit einem Staatsakt in der Hauptkirche St. Michaelis im Hamburg haben Herr Schmidt und mehrere hundert Ehrengäste Abschied genommen. Foto: Welt Online
Am liebsten, hat Loki Schmidt vor wenigen Jahren in einem Gespräch gesagt, am liebsten wäre es ihr, sie und ihr Mann Helmut gingen am Ende zur gleichen Zeit, gemeinsam. Mit liebevollem Spott fuhr ihr Mann ihr damals in die Parade. „Das hast Du nicht zu entscheiden.“

Jetzt sitzt Helmut Schmidt im Hamburger Michel allein in der ersten Reihe, nur seine Tochter Susanne und deren Mann Brian Kennedy an der Seite. Er muss Abschied nehmen von der Frau, mit der er mehr als sieben Jahrzehnten lang verwachsen war.

Wie schwer ihm dies fällt, ist dem sonst so spröden, stets um Haltung bemühten früheren Bundeskanzler anzumerken.

Er ist nicht durch das Hauptportal gekommen, sondern hat sich im Rollstuhl durch den Kapellenzugang auf kürzestem Weg in das Kirchenschiff schieben lassen, weil er noch einen Moment für sich sein wollte.

Als Bachs Ouvertüre in h-Moll erklingt, ringt Helmut Schmidt um Fassung. Neben dem eigenen trägt er den Ehering seiner Frau an der Hand. Tochter Susanne streicht ihm über den Rücken.

2000 Gäste sind in die Hauptkirche St. Michaelis gekommen, darunter Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und die früheren Bundespräsidenten Richard von Weizsäcker und Horst Köhler, Ex-Kanzler Gerhard Schröder, amtierende und frühere Ministerpräsidenten. >>> Von Insa Gall | Montag, 01. November 2010

Das Video vom Abschied Loki Schmidts hier abspielen.
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Deutschland sperrt Luftraum für jemenitische Flugzeuge: Reaktion auf Transport von Sprengstoff-Paketen
NZZ ONLINE: Deutschland hat auf die versuchten Anschläge mit Paketbomben aus Jemen reagiert: Ab sofort werden keine Flugzeuge aus Jemen mehr in den deutschen Luftraum gelassen. Das gilt auch für Maschinen, die ohne zu landen nur über Deutschland fliegen würden.

Nach dem Fund von zwei Paketbomben in Frachtflugzeugen aus dem Jemen hat Deutschland für alle Flüge aus dem Land ein Einflugverbot verhängt. Die deutsche Flugsicherung sei angewiesen worden, direkte und indirekte Flüge aus Jemen abzuweisen, sagte ein Sprecher des Verkehrsministeriums am Montag in Berlin. >>> afp/ddp | Montag, 01. November 2010

NZZ ONLINE: Die Kaida hat es sich in Jemen bequem gemacht: Warum das Regime wenig gegen die Terrororganisation unternimmt >>> hoh. | Montag, 01. November 2010

Nicolas Sarkozy. Photograph: Google Images
Paketbombe an Sarkozy adressiert: Detonation einer Bombe in Athen – weitere Pakete entschärft
NZZ ONLINE: In der griechischen Hauptstadt Athen haben am Montag mehrere Paketbomben für Aufregung gesorgt. Eine Bombe detonierte und verletzte eine Angestellte eines Kurierdienstes an der Hand. Die Absender der explosiven Fracht werden dem linksnarchistischen Spektrum zugeordnet.

In der griechischen Hauptstadt Athen sind mehrere Paketbomben gefunden worden, von denen eine an Frankreichs Staatschef Nicolas Sarkozy adressiert war. Wie die griechische Polizei am Montag mitteilte, wurde die an Sarkozy gerichtete Sendung bei zwei Verdächtigten gefunden, die der linksanarchistischen Szene in Griechenland zugerechnet werden. Weiter lesen und einen Kommentar schreiben >>> ddp/afp | Montag, 01. November 2010

Baroness Thatcher Returns Home from Hospital
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Baroness Thatcher has arrived home after being released from a London hospital this afternoon.

The former Prime Minister looked frail as she appeared on her doorstep to give a brief wave and a smile before returning inside.

She had been whisked by car out of the private Cromwell Hospital in west London for the short journey back to her Belgravia home.

Lady Thatcher was admitted almost two weeks ago with an infection after suffering from the flu.

Her spokesman said she had now been given the all-clear by doctors. Read on and comment >>> Victoria Ward | Monday, November 01, 2010

Younge America: The Old Farts' Club
THE GUARDIAN: On the eve of the US midterm elections, Gary Younge attends a breakfast and bull meeting in rural Nevada, where local conservatives discuss jobs, judges and the pros and cons of armed insurrection

Watch Guardian video here | Presented by Gary Younge and produced by Laurence Topham | Monday, November 01, 2010

Thilo Sarrazin sagt die Wahrheit

Thilo Sarrazin im Dialog

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