Wonderful piece in Le Monde on electronic communication, liberty and internal security. Another in our occasional series of non-English articles in an attempt to encourage the learning of other languages by our Anglo-Saxon readers. I won’t pretend I understand every word, but I love le Monde’s turn of phrase. Please stay independent! Cant you appeal … LOPSI AND PERICLES
Group suspected of smuggling Iraqi Kurds. Eurojust coordinated the investigation, Europol the operation.
operation Malicious Mortgage [sic]. Figures of arrests, size of mortgage fraud losses plus oblique reference to Bear Stearns case. Presumably if they can do it there, so can people in the UK and elsewhere.
More on corruption in Russia from the Moscow Times. $319billion a year paid in bribes! There is so much data in here and it seems to me so controversial that Ive given it a tinyurl too: http://tinyurl.com/47ne7lJust in case the article gets pulled from the main website. Lots of info in this.
Just chatting to a journalist on the phone and discovered this nice little piece on “ants”, a Polish version of “smurfs”, by Paul Holtom. Is he still doing stuff in this area, does anybody know? Klaus von Lampe might have some useful comments, too.
Long Washington Post piece that may give some pointers as to why smugglers and organised crime profit from political conflict.
Well, if your motto is “faithful through the centuries….”
Article based on a report by David Albright, an authority on the Khan group, that has been leaked to the Washington Post.
This, on the other hand, is much more serious, although it is not clear why he cannot be put on trial. There has to be a problem proving him guilty of an offence. The mistake appears to have been made when someone decided to deport him rather than put him on trial. The judges have … ABU QATADA BAILED
Talk about using a wheel to crush a butterfly. CPS is going over the top again and again at the moment, stretching the law. Which is why 42 days detention is so scary. “proportionate” CPS….can you people even spell the word? We used to have cautions and binding over to keep the peace for the … “LYRICAL TERRORIST” HAS CONVICTION QUASHED
