i think I missed blogging this story last week. All the figures for the post 9/11 period.

Ever wonder why people can sell stuff in shopping malls, but the minute you try to take a photo or a video….Shazam…here comes security person!The BBC story doesnt ask that question. This is a puff for a programe they will be showing later. Counterfeit drugs on sale in car parks.

Finally found the full text. the link from EU Observer didnt work the first time, so a tinyurl link should work better, I hope.

I missed early reports on this, but include it because there have been allegations involving transmission of funds to al Qaeda. We shall see.

Well, I hope theyre right, but I would be rather surprised, since other authorities were telling us there was still over-production. The claim is that SOCA has been making life difficult for dug traffickers so the wholesale price is going up, while the quality on the street is going down. Other sources wonder about the … SOCA CLAIMSWORLD COCAINE MARKET “IN RETREAT”

Two men originally arrested for organising illegal imigration now being held on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks in the long term.

Great title for New York Times article on Ghostnet and the Tibetan exiles. Doesnt come up with final answers, but its still a fascinating story.

Tom Hanlon and George Hegarty arrested in Cork. breaking story.

Report leaked to Guardian. Chinese children arriving at Heathrow, being placed in care home then vanishing. Organised crime suspected.

397 by separatist movements. There was only ONE attack carried out in 2008 by “Islamists”: the one in Exeter. You would never know that from the media and the government in the UK, now…would you? Better check this report.