An "angelic looking boy" aged 12 has been identified as at severe risk of being lured into violent Islamist extremism, a senior police officer revealed today.
The white schoolboy is the youngest of 124 children and youths, mainly Asian teenagers from Muslim backgrounds, who have been earmarked by police forces for close-contact work to try and stop them being groomed for terrorism.
The child was brought into a police station in West Yorkshire by a headmaster who said he was unable to cope with his behaviour.
Sir Norman Bettison, chief constable of West Yorkshire, said the boy's family was cooperating fully with police and other agencies trying to help him.
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NEW powers could be given to headteachers to search pupils they suspect are carrying weapons.
The Welsh Assembly Government will soon begin a consultation on whether to go ahead with the plans after children as young as five years old were found using dangerous weapons in schools.
The Welsh Assembly Government will soon begin a consultation on whether to go ahead with the plans after children as young as five years old were found using dangerous weapons in schools.
Social Democrat and opposition politicians in Germany have called for the withdrawal of US atomic weapons from German military bases after a US Air Force investigation concluded that "most sites" used for deploying nuclear weapons in Europe do not meet US Department of Defense minimum security requirements.
"Atomic weapons in Germany are a holdover from the Cold War. They must go," Guido Westerwelle, leader of the opposition Free Democrat Party, told the Berliner Zeitung.
"Atomic weapons in Germany are a holdover from the Cold War. They must go," Guido Westerwelle, leader of the opposition Free Democrat Party, told the Berliner Zeitung.
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"As all halfway-decent managers in the rock era have done, [Jim] Dickson worked on seducing the in-crowd and creating a buzz around [The Byrds] ... The timing was perfect ... LA's baby-boomers were mobile, getting around, looking for action. And now they were joined by the hip elite of Hollywood itself, from Sal Mineo and Peter Fonda to junkie comic Lenny Bruce."
Barney Hoskyns, Waiting for the Sun
As important as the Freaks were to building an audience for the new Laurel Canyon bands, there was another group that played a key role as well: Hollywood's so-called "Young Turks." Like the Freaks, the Turks became an immediate and constant presence on the newly emerging Sunset Strip scene. And as with the Freaks, their presence on the Strip was heavily promoted by the media. Locals and tourists alike knew where to go to gawk at the Freaks and, as an added bonus, quite possibly rub shoulders with the likes of Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and Warren Beatty, along with their female counterparts like Jane Fonda, Nancy Sinatra and Sharon Tate.
Many of these young and glamorous Hollywood stars forged very close bonds with the Laurel Canyon musicians. Some of them, including Peter Fonda, found homes in the canyon so that they could live, work and party among the rock stars (and, in their free time, pass around John Phillips' wife to just about every swinging dick in the canyon, including Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, Roman Polanski, and Gene Clark of The Byrds). Some of them never left; Jack Nicholson to this day lives in a spacious estate just off the portion of Mulholland Drive that lies between Laurel Canyon and Coldwater Canyon. Not far west of Nicholson's property (which now includes the neighboring estate formerly owned by Marlon Brando) sits the longtime home of Warren Beatty.
Irish voters appear likely to vote again on the Lisbon Treaty in a bid to sustain progress toward a more streamlined and powerful European Union.
Meeting in Brussels, European Union leaders signaled their intent to prevent a two-tiered union by ensuring that all 27 member states ratify the treaty. Even as they did, however, concerns rose about the Czech Republic's ability to do so, as the Czech senate has demanded a court ruling on the treaty's constitutionality.
Meeting in Brussels, European Union leaders signaled their intent to prevent a two-tiered union by ensuring that all 27 member states ratify the treaty. Even as they did, however, concerns rose about the Czech Republic's ability to do so, as the Czech senate has demanded a court ruling on the treaty's constitutionality.
A building worker who was found hanged in a village near Bridgend is believed to be the third young victim from the same street.
Carwyn Jones, 28, and the two other victims Neil Owen, 26, and Sean Rees, 19, who grew up in the street in Bettws and were reported to be friends, died within two months of each other. Each of them was found hanged from trees.
Mr Jones, who was found by a woman passer-by in woodland, died on Monday, on the eve of the funeral of Mr Owen, and eight weeks after the death of Mr Rees.
The latest death brought to 22 the number of young people who are believed to have died in apparent suicides in the Bridgend area since the start of last year.
Carwyn Jones, 28, and the two other victims Neil Owen, 26, and Sean Rees, 19, who grew up in the street in Bettws and were reported to be friends, died within two months of each other. Each of them was found hanged from trees.
Mr Jones, who was found by a woman passer-by in woodland, died on Monday, on the eve of the funeral of Mr Owen, and eight weeks after the death of Mr Rees.
The latest death brought to 22 the number of young people who are believed to have died in apparent suicides in the Bridgend area since the start of last year.
At least 40 people drowned and around 100 are missing after a boat carrying illegal immigrants from Libya to Italy capsized, an Egyptian security official said on Monday.
Forty bodies have been recovered after the boat sank shortly after leaving the port of Zuwarah, about 100 kilometres (63 miles) west of Tripoli, on June 7, the official said, citing a report from the Egyptian embassy in Libya.
An Egyptian and a Bangladeshi man are the only passengers known to have survived, with the Egyptian survivor saying that around 150 people were on the boat, including 50 Egyptians from the Nile Delta town of Zagazig, when it sank.
Forty bodies have been recovered after the boat sank shortly after leaving the port of Zuwarah, about 100 kilometres (63 miles) west of Tripoli, on June 7, the official said, citing a report from the Egyptian embassy in Libya.
An Egyptian and a Bangladeshi man are the only passengers known to have survived, with the Egyptian survivor saying that around 150 people were on the boat, including 50 Egyptians from the Nile Delta town of Zagazig, when it sank.
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Irish voters, making up a fraction of one per cent of the population of the European Union, have rejected a crucial EU reform treaty by a narrow margin, leaving itself isolated in Europe and the European Union in crisis.
ALBEMARLE, N.C. - For two decades, Al Gentry begged investigators to take another look at the mystery of who killed his brother, Harold, and left his gunshot-ridden body sprawled on the floor of the home he shared with his wife.
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| In this photo provided by the Augusta, Ga., Police Dept. Betty Johnson Neumar is shown at her booking in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday, June 10, 2008. It took years, but authorities have charged the 76-year-old with hiring a hit man, and investigators think she may have also killed her four other husbands in four other states. |
Comment: Isn't it amazing to notice that most of the article pushes unashamed anti-Muslim propaganda and talks about fake Al Qaeda threat, 'violent Islamist extremism' and the necessity to control Muslim youth and their main 'supplier' - The Internet, while the offender in question is a non-Muslim 'small-framed child with tousled blond hair', who already performed horrendous deeds prior to be 'exposed' to the 'extremist material'?