The Daily Read
July 3, 2006
Legal battle pits terrorist fears against civil liberties (AFP)
AFP - The government is appealing against a High Court ruling that challenged a key element of its anti-terrorist measures in a case that pits security concerns against civil liberties.
Britons uneasy as 7/7 bombings anniversary nears (Reuters)
Reuters - A year after suicide bombers brought carnage to London, Britons will remember the victims of the July 7 attacks this week amid worries that Islamist militants could strike again.
Compensation debate rages a year after London bombings (AFP)
AFP - A year after the July 7 attacks in London, controversy over how much compensation survivors and bereaved families will receive continues, despite millions of pounds having being paid out.
Compensation debate rages a year after London bombings (AFP)
AFP - A year after the July 7 attacks in London, controversy over how much compensation survivors and bereaved families will receive continues, despite millions of pounds having being paid out.
July 2, 2006
Al-Qaeda threat to Britain 'brutal' (AFP)
AFP - Al-Qaeda may well pose an increasingly brutal threat and the worsening security situation in Iraq is providing Islamic extremists with a crucial training ground, MPs have warned.
Al-Qaeda threat to Britain 'brutal' (AFP)
AFP - Al-Qaeda may well pose an increasingly brutal threat and the worsening security situation in Iraq is providing Islamic extremists with a crucial training ground, MPs have warned.
June 30, 2006
State agency goes ahead with 9/11 memorial (AP)
AP - The state's redevelopment agency signed off Friday on a scaled-back Sept. 11 memorial that would display victims' names at street level and have less underground museum space.
Former NYPD chief Kerik pleads guilty (AP)
June 29, 2006
Audio, videotapes from Osama bin Laden (AP)
US Senate panel votes to delay border check program (Reuters)
Reuters - A Senate panel voted on Thursday to delay a post-September 11 border security program requiring passports or other high-tech IDs for everyone entering the United States following concerns about lagging technology and poor coordination with Canada.
September 11 exposes divide between 'war on terror' and rights (AFP)
AFP - The US Supreme Court's rejection of military tribunals to try terror suspects has highlighted the deep divide here over security versus civil rights since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
June 28, 2006
Colorado professor calls probe a farce (AP)
AP - A University of Colorado professor who faces dismissal over research misconduct allegations said Wednesday he was singled out as a dissident scholar after he wrote an essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.
Architect unveils details of Freedom Tower (AP)
AP - Glass prisms, landscaped plazas and a lighted spire meant to resemble the Statue of Liberty's torch are all included in the latest design of the skyscraper being built to replace the World Trade Center.
Audio and videotapes from Osama bin Laden (AP)
British court quashes house arrest of six Iraqis (AFP)
British court quashes house arrest of six Iraqis (AFP)
Architects in New York unveil new Freedom Tower (Reuters)
Reuters - The redesigned Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, planned to become America's tallest building, will be a monolithic glass structure reflecting the sky and topped by a sculpted antenna, the architects said on Wednesday.
British court quashes anti-terrorism orders (Reuters)
Reuters - Britain's High Court ruled on Wednesday that "control orders" confining six terrorism suspects to partial house arrest breached their human rights, throwing out a key plank of Prime Minister Tony Blair's security policy.
June 27, 2006
Gulf widens between Muslims and others over terrorism (AFP)
AFP - Signs of a deeping split between Muslims and the rest of the community over policing and the authorities' reaction to information about terrorist threats have emerged in a poll.
Two arrested in fresh terror raids (AFP)
AFP - Two people have been arrested during a series of early morning raids by anti-terrorist police in Manchester, in the north of England.
