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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that al Qaeda remained the biggest threat to U.S. security, as his aides stepped up pressure on Afghanistan and Pakistan to cooperate with Washington's strategy in the troubled region.
This is a cross post by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens On his blog, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Glasgow Central, Osama Saeed, seems to have taken issue with a pamphlet I wrote last week, which cites his 2006 support for pro al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki. Firstly, this should be put into some kind of perspective: if a PPC [...]
HM Treasury today becomes perhaps the biggest hedge fund in the UK: it is investing £25.5bn in Royal Bank of Scotland shares and £5.7bn in Lloyds shares, financed almost exclusively by borrowing. It's probably quite good business. If we're past the nadir for the economy and for bank shares - and that's a fair bet - it's not a bad punt to […]
This is a week when Labour MPs have to ask themselves a very important question: can they stage a comeback with Gordon Brown as their leader, or are they doomed to defeat with him at the helm? And if the latter, is there any chance of or point in replacing him? Some - let's call them the plotters - believe that Mr Brown is taking their party to certain […]