Nov 21 1:42 AM US/Eastern
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press Writer MINNEAPOLIS Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis- St. Paul International Airport on Monday and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said.
The six were among passengers who boarded Flight 300, bound for Phoenix, around 6:30 p.m., airport spokesman Pat Hogan said. A passenger initially raised concerns about the group through a note passed to a flight attendant, according to Andrea Rader, a spokeswoman for US Airways. She said police were called after the captain and airport security workers asked the men to leave the plane and the men refused. |
01:28 PM, November 21st 2006
by News Staff Rome's Ciampino airport reopened to air traffic on Tuesday after it was shut down briefly because of a bomb alert that turned out to be false, Sky Italia television reported. The airport remained closed for just over 90 minutes while bomb disposal officers inspected cargo planes parked on its runways.
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ABC12.com
13/11/2006 The man who was TASERed at last week's Saginaw City Council meeting says he never attacked anyone.
Charles Littleton says he was only standing up for his rights -- rights he says society continues to lose every day. That is what got 22-year-old Littleton in trouble. He didn't obey a rule inside Saginaw City Council chambers. That rule is that all men must remove their hats. "It means more than just a hat," Littleton said. "It's like my crown. It's like asking a king to remove his crown." He was dragged out of the meeting after being TASERed following what was described as scuffle with police, but Littleton says it didn't happen that way. "I never kicked, punched, swung or anything like that," he said. "They are making it seem like I attacked the officer, then had to be TASERed because I was attacking them. That's not true at all." |
BBC News
20/11/2006 Police are to use head-mounted video cameras to help in the fight against anti-social behaviour.
Eight Metropolitan Police officers in Haringey, north London, will use the devices on the beat, to record evidence of people causing trouble. The tiny £1,800 cameras, each the size of an AA battery, will be fitted onto the side of the officers' headgear. Police say the clearly visible cameras will act as a deterrent, as well as an evidence gathering tool. Comment: There might be more public confidence in such measures if there was any confidence that the UK police force is not simply a tool of the establishment, which it clearly is. Are such devices going to cut down on crime alone? Or are they going to be used to intimidate ordinary people in exercising their so-called "democratic rights"?
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20/11/2006
UK Telegraph Tony Blair faced accusations last night that he is wasting nearly £7 billion of taxpayers' money on a failing war on terror after announcing massive sums of British aid to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In the last three days, the Prime Minister and Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, have trumpeted special funding to the three countries totalling £844 million. |
UK Telegraph
20/11/2006 Tony Blair's plans to let police hold suspected terrorists for up to 90 days without charge suffered a setback at the weekend when the Government's senior law officer said he had seen no evidence that the change was necessary.
Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, said that he would prefer to let prosecutors make greater use of telephone-tapping evidence and to let the police question suspects after they had been charged. The Government's attempt to increase the maximum detention period led to Mr Blair's first defeat in the Commons a year ago. |
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