Washington Post site collecting links to articles about the Mexican conflict, including an interactive map.

Calm account from EUobserver. British press a bit over the top so far to make it possible to choose a particular account.

The bishops of England and Wales worry that they might have to calm down some of their stranger attitudes…? or am I misreading this curious piece in the EU Justice and Home Affairs section of EUobserver?

Murky stuff. here comes the US Treasury equipped to data mine EU banking. Who should take part in the talks? Its all about terrorism…of course! Yeah right. Get them tax-dodgers, Marshal Dillon!

Surkov is the Kremlin’s first deputy Chief of Staff. is “Close to Zero” a novel about corruption, his work, published under a pseudonym and if so, what does it all mean?

Known as Cyxymu…now if only we could get cyxymuicide as a Scrabble word! The name is an attempt to Cyrillicize [another great scrabble word] Sukhumi, the georgian town. This is a new take on the apparent Denial of Service attacks on Twitter, Google, Facebook and even LiveJournal yesterday. Cyxymu criticises both the Georgians and the … INTERNET ATTACKS TARGETED LONE GEORGIAN BLOGGER

Awful report in Times at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6789564.ece Ive decided to make the link to the full report. Times; shock horror….security services, police and local councils made 504,073 requests lasyt year [actually down from 519,260 the previous year]. Of this only 1,500 made by councils, but you would get the impression from the Times that almost all … REPORT OF THE INTERCEPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONER FOR 2008

Final outcome of yet another of the terrorist finance trials that came in the aftermath of 9/11. Instead of being found guilty of financing Osama bin Laden, Sheikh Mohammed al-Moayad and his “bodyguard” plead guilty to providing material support to Hamas and are to be deported…

Ft article on the arrest and trial of the former chair of Canton Properties for obtaining illegal loans from the Bank of Communications in which HSBC has a minority holding.

linked to Somali based al-Shabab group. Allegedly planning suicide bomb attack on Australian military. Seven-month investigation.