UK -Politics & World Current Affairs

Believe it or not, we did laugh, twice, during the ‎Prime Minister’s monthly presser this morning.

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OBITUARY: GENERAL ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID;‎
Having had my work (whether books, news reports, ‎commentary or analysis I contributed in newspapers, TV or ‎Broadcast) plagiarised by fellow hacks – yes they have no ‎f***** morals – I decide to publish this obituary of Saddam ‎Hussein’s cousin General Ali Hassan Al-Majid, also known as ‎Chemical Ali, who was executed today in Baghdad, on my blog ‎as more than one obituary that will appear in the National ‎papers tomorrow arelikely to be  plagiarised from my work. I did in fact ‎publish an obituary of Gn Al-Majid in the Independent on ‎Tuesday 8th April 2003, after he had faked his own death and ‎we fell for it.‎

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This is the original piece, which was printed in Arabic in Asharq al-Awsat Saturday January 2, 2010, but then they back-translated into English (http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=19420 )which made little sense, hence I had to put it on the blog ( which I normally wouldn’t do with pieces published in the media)

ONCE AGAIN  the derogatory term “Londonstan”, resonated among world security chiefs referring to Britain as soon as it was revealed that that Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who tried to trigger explosives on a passenger flight approaching Detroit airport, had been radicalised by Islamists extremists during his three years study in Britain.

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