#1 — Danish police shoot intruder at cartoonist’s home
Danish police have shot and wounded a man at the home of Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad sparked an international row.
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#2 — BBC | Obama blames al-Qaeda for Christmas Day jet ‘bomb’
US President Barack Obama has for the first time publicly accused an offshoot of al-Qaeda over the alleged Christmas Day bomb plot to blow up a US plane.
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#3 — CNN | Afghan Parliament starts voting on Cabinet nominees
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Afghanistan’s Parliament started voting Saturday on President Hamid Karzai’s Cabinet nominees, making decisions that will be crucial to his fight against corruption and his administration’s legitimacy in the eyes of the nation and world.
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#4 — CNN | Death toll rises in Pakistan game blast
(CNN) — The death toll climbed to 88 Saturday after a suicide car bomb exploded in the middle of a group of men playing volleyball in northwest Pakistan, police said.
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#5 — DM | Not a very bright idea
It wasn’t just long-lost elderly relatives giving unwanted gift this Christmas. German-owned energy company Npower were at it too, cramming the already under-pressure postal service with 12 million low-energy light bulbs that households neither asked for nor required.
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#6 — Times | Gordon Brown calls summit over terrorism threat from Yemen
Gordon Brown is to host an emergency summit this month on the terror threat posed by Yemen after the attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner on Christmas Day.
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#7 — Times | I shall send hundreds of men to fight alongside our neighbours
The leader of Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked insurgency yesterday declared that he would send hundreds of fighters to join the Islamist campaign in Yemen, adding to fears that increased US involvement in antiterrorism operations in the country could fuel even greater instability.
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#8 — Times | Iraq promises to bring Blackwater security guards to justice
Iraq promised to “bring Blackwater to justice” yesterday after a US judge dismissed all charges against five American security guards accused of killing at least 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad two years ago.
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#9 — Telegraph | Britain facing one of the coldest winters in 100 years, experts predict
Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.
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#10 — Telegraph | Passenger profiling needed as well as scanners, airlines chief warns
Full body scanners will not eliminate the terrorist threat to flying, the world’s leading airlines have warned, calling for security checks to be focused on groups of passengers perceived to present the greatest risk.
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Re Iraq promises to bring Blackwater security guards to justice: From the comments
Laws and courts must not only be fair, but they must seen to be fair – American law and courts failed that simple test and the guy who made the above comment is spot on. How two faced is it that American courts can determine that statements taken from Americans under duress cannot be used against them while the American government is now famous worldwide for embracing the practice of torturing prisoners.
In addition to what stageleft has said, word is now coming out about these so called secret CIA foreign prisons. God only knows whats been going on there.
Danish police have shot and wounded a man at the home of Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad sparked an international row.
Only wounded? Send these guys back out to the firing range for more training.
His house has been heavily fortified and is under close police protection.
A killer can break into a home carrying a knife and an axe and threaten the life of the occupant even while that house is under close police protection?
” A Somali axeman who tried to murder the Danish cartoon artist had links to al-Qaeda”. Not only that, the ungrateful SOB had been granted asylum (refugee status) by Denmark and then he pulls a stunt like this.
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