Holder: US needs Europe's help to close Gitmo

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spent days gingerly, privately asking for help before taking his plea public: The United States needs Europe's assistance to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

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Straw Prompts Islamic Integration Debate

Britain has been plunged into a debate over Islamic integration after revelations that former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw asks Muslim women visiting his office to remove their veils and a Muslim policeman was excused from guarding the Israeli Embassy.

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A British court issued a landmark ruling Friday, allowing a transsexual prisoner serving life for manslaughter and attempted rape to be transferred to a women's prison.

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Jack Straw last night admitted surrendering to Libyan demands for the Lockerbie bomber to be included in a prisoner transfer deal.

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Lockerbie release linked to oil deal (Source: Reuters) Britain agreed to include Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in a prisoner transfer deal with Libya in 2007 because of "overwhelming interests" just before an oil deal with Tripoli, a UK newspaper claims

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In a massive new law and order scandal, almost 1,000 criminals including murderers, rapists and paedophiles are wrongly at large. The dangerous convicts should have been returned to jail after committing new crimes or breaking the terms of their early release.

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UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been criticised by a security vendor for using a Hotmail account for government business - an account that was subsequently hacked by Nigerian scammers.

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A DECISION by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, to veto the publication of key Cabinet minutes about the decision to invade Iraq has been greeted with fury.

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A petition calling for the posthumous pardon of women and men who were executed as witches in Britain will be presented to the justice secretary, Jack Straw, today. Campaigners hope evidence of eight grave "miscarriages of justice" will persuade him to take action.

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UK Justice Secretary, Jack Straw MP, is being urged by Peter Tatchell to rescind the license granted to the Roman Catholic Church for the exhumation and reburial of Cardinal John Henry Newman, on the grounds that it is "certainly unethical and probably illegal".

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A convicted Islamist terrorist who was caught trying to smuggle blueprints into Britain showing how to build a missile has been released from prison early under the Government's controversial plans to ease prison overcrowding.

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IF THE U.S. leaves Iraq, the violent sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia will worsen. This is what Republicans and Democrats alike will have us believe. This key piece of rhetoric is used to justify the continuance of the occupation of Iraq.

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Jack Straw today pointed the finger of blame over the dodgy donors at Tony Blair. In an attempt to drag the focus away from from the beleagured Prime Minister, the Justice Secretary claimed the problem with third parties' donations began four years ago.

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For the first few minutes of Gordon Brown's speech on liberty, I was ready to walk down the aisle with him, compose sonnets in his honour, extend to his tired shoulders the benefits of my celebrated neck massage.

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Senior police officers warned last night that the snap 12-hour strike by prison officers which led to chaotic scenes across the country yesterday could have serious implications for maintaining order both inside jails and on the streets.

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The "continuing problem" of gang violence is due to the absence of fathers in black communities, Justice Secretary Jack Straw says. He said young black men needed their fathers as role models, otherwise their development suffered.

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Jack Straw, widely expected to replace John Reid as the home secretary, today clearly signalled that the future of the national identity card scheme would be in the melting pot when Gordon Brown becomes prime minister next month.

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In Blair's Britain now you can be imprisoned for 5 years for peaceful protest, if your protest offends the profit-making aspirations of a powerful corporation.

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Article by Jack Straw writing for The Guardian highlighting some of the common ground that exists among the views on reform that exist.

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Muslims are being singled out for demonisation on a par with the victimisation of Jews during the last century, the mayor of London claimed today.

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This odd coupling of white liberals and brown conservatives has produced a form of multiculturalism in which culture appears as fixed and fragile as a dried flower, something to be preserved, in danger of being shaken apart by the slightest breath of criticism, rather than someth …

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Jack Straw said last night it was "absurd" and "ridiculous" to suggest that his comments on the veil made him directly responsible for a rise in Islamophobic attacks.

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Everyone's favourite phrase these days begins with the words "It is my right to..." Particularly familiar sounding will be statements such as: "It is my right to offend other people".

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If I were a British Muslim of conservative or liberal outlook, religious or secular, I would be feeling a little bruised by now, wary of opening my newspaper or turning on the radio for fear of whatever new controversy has broken since Jack Straw first broached the subject of the …

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The conundrum that one of the things liberals have to tolerate is intolerance hasn't needed to be at the forefront of debates on free expression before. It is now, and it should be. That's not really true, as that has been at the fore for a great many liberals for a long time.

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Cabinet Minister Jack Straw has said he would prefer Muslim women not to wear veils which cover the face. The Commons leader said he did not want to be "prescriptive" but he believed that covering people's faces could make community relations more difficult.

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