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“Explosions hit three hotels in the Jordanian capital Wednesday night, and at least 18 people were killed and 120 wounded.”
The AP broke the story to the major news organisations within the last half-hour.
Update
Within the last 8 to 10 minutes, it’s been revealed the attacks were in fact carried out by suicide bombers. You may think this was the likely scenario, but Jordan’s capital isn’t really used to attacks of this nature, where it’s commonplace in some other parts of the Middle East.
This comes on a day when PM Blair is voted against the introduction of a 90-day period in which to hold terror suspects without charge. Is this necessary to combat attacks like this? They seem to happen every month.
Update
Within the last 12-15 minutes, information has been released which states that at least 23 people have died. Three hotels were attacked, near simultaneously. Police believe there was Al-Qaeda involvement. I don’t think it’s possible to stop this organisation, no matter what Bush says in his ’speeches.’ Tragic.
“Australian police have arrested 15 people in two counter-terrorism raids in Sydney and Melbourne, media reports say.”
No more information is available on the major network sites, just basically that line on CNN & Fox News.
Update - The AP
The Associated Press have just released their rudimentary breaking news piece, basically this minute.
“New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said 400 officers were involved in raids in Sydney that captured six men while nine more suspects were picked up in the southern city of Melbourne.
“I’m satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a large scale terrorist attack … here in Australia,” Moroney told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
Rob Stary, a Melbourne lawyer who said he represented eight people arrested in the city, said most of his clients in the case had been charged with being members of a banned organization.”
The details of the location of the planned attack have not been released by the police.
Update - New details, just released.
“The suspects were expected to appear in courts in Sydney and Melbourne later Tuesday.”
It’s quite a fast moving the process don’t you think? I mean they were only arrested this morning (australia time of course).
David Blunkett has resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary - saying he wanted to protect the Government from being diverted by rows over his business dealings.
Sooo that’s the second time in less than a year. Maybe he’d keep his job if he kept his dog on its lead to stop it seducing Michael Portillo, then he wouldn’t have to do dodgy dealings to cover it up.
“Urged to “put a shout out” while appearing on a community radio station, he hesitated for a moment.
“This is a great project, this is a great community, keep backing it, keep it real,” he told Life FM in London.”
that’s david cameroon, the youngest contender for the tory leadership, gettin down with it.
click here for full article.
“So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them” — Barbara Bush, in Houston
what a rich bitch!
No way. I cannot believe Kanye did that.
On a telethon to raise money for the Red Cross to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Kanye said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” LIVE ON AIR in reference to the amount of time it’s taking to help people and the fact that the majority of New Orleans is black. They cut his transmission off instantly.
Link: http://media.putfile.com/Kanye79
Wait for it to load and watch. Brilliant.
$67.32 - That was the New York closing price of crude oil last night. It’s also a nominal record. Why should you care? You, personally probably shouldn’t at the moment, but I’ll tell you about it anyway. The record it actually broke was reset on the 12th August, although it is only 22 cents more. Why is this happening and what does it mean? Well at the moment supply and demand are perilously close to each other. Basically, there’s about a million extra barrels a day produced to cope with any surges in real demand, so that’s why the markets are so shaky. Traders are buying up stock, anticipating an upsurge in demand, however this perpetuates the problem. Then you have rising prices creating a rise in general prices, where really, there needn’t be.
The fact that the U.S. Department of Energy announced that stocks had fallen by 2.3m barrels instead of the expected 1.5m sent shockwaves throughout the commodities markets. If this situation continues to perpetuate then it doesn’t bode well for the world economy at large, so what’s the alternative?
The U.S. Government, quite ironically some might say, has invested U.S. tax payer’s money into researching alternative fuel technologies. One of the main areas have been hydrogen fuels which are pollutant free and would greatly reduce the problem of fuel scarcity which sees prices rocketing and the environment suffering. This is all well and good, however the problem lies within the incentives or the drive behind the decisions to research these areas by the U.S. government. The reason the current administration gives is that they would like to reduce their dependence on foreign sources of fuel. This is worrying as the U.S. is the world’s largest economic power and if they reduce the level of imports it will have a detrimental effect on the world economy at large.
Tonight at 10:40pm, BBC One is airing a Panorama special entitled ‘A Question of Leadership.’ The program asks whether the Muslim Council of Britain and similar umbrella organisations within UK’s Muslim community are ‘in denial’ over the extreme views which are held within a minority. The programme essentially states that this is the case, which has angered prominent Muslim figures in the UK - most notably the secretary general of the MBC. Secretary General Sir Iqbal Sacranie stated the programme had…
“…the barely concealed goal of drawing British Muslims away from being inspired in their political beliefs and actions by the faith of Islam.”
Furthermore, he articulates that…
“…it is unfortunate that just when Britain’s 1.6 million Muslims are beginning to make progress in terms of their political participation in the mainstream, there are those who are purposefully trying to sabotage that process.”
Click here for the BBC News article that contains the original quotes.
Personally, I think his statements are insulting and somewhat condescending to the UK electorate as a whole, never mind the Muslim community.
I believe the less we hear from these group leaders, the less segregated our society will become and the more we can focus on individuals who are purely criminals. Let’s not allow them to hide under the guise of religion – they are murderers, plain and simple. I don’t want to be grouped with them, just because they happen to be in the same religious group as me. I don’t want some secretary general speaking on behalf of me, saying quite condescendingly that a particular group, which I am presumed to be an inextricable part of, are “beginning to make progress.” Brilliant.
