2 different news reports:
(1) Note the title - no mention of the islamics. Just some random Brits, then? Thought not.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070430/2/13aj4.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday May 1, 07:38 AM
<b>Brits get life for bombing spree plot</b>
A judge jailed five Britons for life for plotting to carry out al-Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain at targets ranging from nightclubs to trains and a shopping centre.
"The sentences are for life. Release is not a foregone conclusion. Some or all of you may never be released," judge Michael Astill told the court.
(Though I thoroughly agree, have to wonder. Are these the same Brits who are telling India not to hang Afzal? Instant death - <i>not</i> the painful electric chair variety - is more merciful than ~65-70 yrs in prison, I'd have thought. Maybe the Indian Psecular Association for Defense of Terrorists feels it incumbent on themselves to go and protest the UK sentence now.)
"You are considered cruel, ruthless misfits by society."
The gang planned to use 600 kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser to make explosives to be used in bombings in revenge for Britain's support for the United States in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, prosecutors said.
Court papers, which could only be detailed after the trial, showed police observing the gang had established links between them and two of four British <b>Islamists</b> who later carried out suicide bombings in London on July 7, 2005, killing 52 people.
Spies had seen <b>Mohammed Sidique Khan</b>, the suspected ringleader of the July 7 bombings, and accomplice <b>Shehzad Tanweer</b> with the men in the days leading up to their arrest but discounted them because they were not involved in the plot.
Opposition parties and survivors of the bombings demanded a public inquiry into the July 7 attacks in response to the news.
The government praised the police for their work.
"Five dangerous terrorists are now behind bars thanks to the hard work of our police and security services," Home Secretary (Interior Minister) John Reid told reporters.
"It's not the first time they have averted a very serious threat to life in this country. This is an endless task, it is a continuing one."
Counter-terrorism experts said the gang could have produced a "formidable weapon" more powerful than some of the devices used in recent devastating attacks around the world.
"It was the first time since 9/11 that British people were attempting to commit mass murder in the UK," said one senior detective.
(These terrorists are <i>not</i> British, they do not regard themselves as British in private. They consider themselves the Faithful, with loyalties to the koran and the global ummah. So the detectives shouldn't be afraid to use the appropriate term.)
"The only sensible conclusion is that al-Qaeda does sit behind it," he told reporters.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->It's like a little game the international media and western governments play. Everyone works hard not to identify the terrorists by the correct term, for fear of implicating the ideology. Because that would be un-PC. But it's the ideology that is the cause of the terrorism. They'll never defeat the problem unless they dare to utter its name. Admitting to a problem is the first step, after all. Goes to show UK is dhimmistan already; the mind is ready to accept submission ('islam'). Next step: dar-ul-islam.
(2) Turkiye:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070501/15/13b19.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday May 1, 11:29 PM
<b>Turk police detain hundreds, political tension high</b>
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police beat and detained hundreds of May Day protesters in Istanbul on Tuesday, adding to tension in a country already rocked by a court challenge to the presidential election, army threats and a million-strong march.
Police detained 700 people in Istanbul in street battles with <b>leftist</b> demonstrators protesting on the May Day anniversary of a mass shooting 30 years ago by unknown gunmen. Riot police fired tear gas and used water canons to break up the crowds. Youths threw Molotov cocktails and set cars ablaze.
The clashes come just two days after a peaceful march by an estimated one million people in the city against the government nomination for president of Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a former minister in an ousted Islamist government 10 years ago.
<b>May Day protests are an annual feature in Turkey and unconnected to the crisis over the presidency, but could still add to the air of crisis</b> that has rattled financial markets in the $400 billion-dollar economy.
"It's for the election and May 1. I came for both. Turkey is going through a tense period," said one protester, Erhan, 28, a driver who declined to give his full name.
The Constitutional Court said it will try to issue a verdict on Tuesday on the request by the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) to halt the presidential election.
The CHP says there were not enough deputies in the chamber in the first round of voting last week to make it valid.
Suspending the presidential election could trigger early parliamentary polls and, analysts say, help defuse the tensions between secularists, including the army, and the government.
But the court has been urged to reject the CHP challenge. Constitutional Court rapporteur Hikmet Tulen, who acts as a prosecutor in such cases, had recommended the bid be rejected, newspapers said. The recommendation is not binding.
The crisis stems from a failure to bridge a divide between people who want Turkey to keep a strict separation of state and mosque and a growing class of more religiously-minded Turks who have prospered under the ruling AK Party and want a relaxation of strict curbs on religious symbols and expression.
CIVIL UNREST
Thousands of people also protested at a peaceful authorized May Day march on the Asian side of Istanbul, a city severely disrupted on Tuesday by a security clampdown. People carried Turkish flags with only a few banners opposing Gul's presidency.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is facing his biggest crisis since coming to power and has appealed for national unity. He has not commented on the fiercely secular army's threatened intervention in the presidential election, or the rallies.
Turkish financial markets recorded their biggest falls in a year on Monday and the currency lost more ground on Tuesday.
Economy Minister Ali Babacan said the economy was ready for early elections, a comment seen as an attempt to calm markets.
Turkey's military has intervened four times since 1960. In 1997 it helped push out a government it deemed an Islamist threat. Gul was a minister in the 1997 government.
The secularist establishment fears that once the AK Party secures control of the presidency it will chip away at the secular principles of the republic. The party denies the claim.
Parliament, in which AK Party has a big majority, elects the president for a seven-year term in predominantly Muslim Turkey.
Parliament is due to hold a second round of voting in the presidential election on Wednesday after Gul failed to secure enough votes at the first round last Friday.
(Additional reporting by Daren Butler, Osman Senkul and Mustafa Yukselbaba in Istanbul)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Secular Turks can only hold islamistan at bay up to the point where the majority starts clammering for one. After that, even democracy will ensure a faithful party is elected, and that will lead to islamisation of the secular nation and eventual end of all secularism.
Besides, there's that other option the faithful have and are known to use: any secular country of muslims is always one step away from some islamic revolution or 'struggle' that will topple the secular government/replace it with an islami one.
(1) Note the title - no mention of the islamics. Just some random Brits, then? Thought not.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070430/2/13aj4.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday May 1, 07:38 AM
<b>Brits get life for bombing spree plot</b>
A judge jailed five Britons for life for plotting to carry out al-Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain at targets ranging from nightclubs to trains and a shopping centre.
"The sentences are for life. Release is not a foregone conclusion. Some or all of you may never be released," judge Michael Astill told the court.
(Though I thoroughly agree, have to wonder. Are these the same Brits who are telling India not to hang Afzal? Instant death - <i>not</i> the painful electric chair variety - is more merciful than ~65-70 yrs in prison, I'd have thought. Maybe the Indian Psecular Association for Defense of Terrorists feels it incumbent on themselves to go and protest the UK sentence now.)
"You are considered cruel, ruthless misfits by society."
The gang planned to use 600 kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser to make explosives to be used in bombings in revenge for Britain's support for the United States in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, prosecutors said.
Court papers, which could only be detailed after the trial, showed police observing the gang had established links between them and two of four British <b>Islamists</b> who later carried out suicide bombings in London on July 7, 2005, killing 52 people.
Spies had seen <b>Mohammed Sidique Khan</b>, the suspected ringleader of the July 7 bombings, and accomplice <b>Shehzad Tanweer</b> with the men in the days leading up to their arrest but discounted them because they were not involved in the plot.
Opposition parties and survivors of the bombings demanded a public inquiry into the July 7 attacks in response to the news.
The government praised the police for their work.
"Five dangerous terrorists are now behind bars thanks to the hard work of our police and security services," Home Secretary (Interior Minister) John Reid told reporters.
"It's not the first time they have averted a very serious threat to life in this country. This is an endless task, it is a continuing one."
Counter-terrorism experts said the gang could have produced a "formidable weapon" more powerful than some of the devices used in recent devastating attacks around the world.
"It was the first time since 9/11 that British people were attempting to commit mass murder in the UK," said one senior detective.
(These terrorists are <i>not</i> British, they do not regard themselves as British in private. They consider themselves the Faithful, with loyalties to the koran and the global ummah. So the detectives shouldn't be afraid to use the appropriate term.)
"The only sensible conclusion is that al-Qaeda does sit behind it," he told reporters.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->It's like a little game the international media and western governments play. Everyone works hard not to identify the terrorists by the correct term, for fear of implicating the ideology. Because that would be un-PC. But it's the ideology that is the cause of the terrorism. They'll never defeat the problem unless they dare to utter its name. Admitting to a problem is the first step, after all. Goes to show UK is dhimmistan already; the mind is ready to accept submission ('islam'). Next step: dar-ul-islam.
(2) Turkiye:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070501/15/13b19.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday May 1, 11:29 PM
<b>Turk police detain hundreds, political tension high</b>
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police beat and detained hundreds of May Day protesters in Istanbul on Tuesday, adding to tension in a country already rocked by a court challenge to the presidential election, army threats and a million-strong march.
Police detained 700 people in Istanbul in street battles with <b>leftist</b> demonstrators protesting on the May Day anniversary of a mass shooting 30 years ago by unknown gunmen. Riot police fired tear gas and used water canons to break up the crowds. Youths threw Molotov cocktails and set cars ablaze.
The clashes come just two days after a peaceful march by an estimated one million people in the city against the government nomination for president of Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a former minister in an ousted Islamist government 10 years ago.
<b>May Day protests are an annual feature in Turkey and unconnected to the crisis over the presidency, but could still add to the air of crisis</b> that has rattled financial markets in the $400 billion-dollar economy.
"It's for the election and May 1. I came for both. Turkey is going through a tense period," said one protester, Erhan, 28, a driver who declined to give his full name.
The Constitutional Court said it will try to issue a verdict on Tuesday on the request by the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) to halt the presidential election.
The CHP says there were not enough deputies in the chamber in the first round of voting last week to make it valid.
Suspending the presidential election could trigger early parliamentary polls and, analysts say, help defuse the tensions between secularists, including the army, and the government.
But the court has been urged to reject the CHP challenge. Constitutional Court rapporteur Hikmet Tulen, who acts as a prosecutor in such cases, had recommended the bid be rejected, newspapers said. The recommendation is not binding.
The crisis stems from a failure to bridge a divide between people who want Turkey to keep a strict separation of state and mosque and a growing class of more religiously-minded Turks who have prospered under the ruling AK Party and want a relaxation of strict curbs on religious symbols and expression.
CIVIL UNREST
Thousands of people also protested at a peaceful authorized May Day march on the Asian side of Istanbul, a city severely disrupted on Tuesday by a security clampdown. People carried Turkish flags with only a few banners opposing Gul's presidency.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is facing his biggest crisis since coming to power and has appealed for national unity. He has not commented on the fiercely secular army's threatened intervention in the presidential election, or the rallies.
Turkish financial markets recorded their biggest falls in a year on Monday and the currency lost more ground on Tuesday.
Economy Minister Ali Babacan said the economy was ready for early elections, a comment seen as an attempt to calm markets.
Turkey's military has intervened four times since 1960. In 1997 it helped push out a government it deemed an Islamist threat. Gul was a minister in the 1997 government.
The secularist establishment fears that once the AK Party secures control of the presidency it will chip away at the secular principles of the republic. The party denies the claim.
Parliament, in which AK Party has a big majority, elects the president for a seven-year term in predominantly Muslim Turkey.
Parliament is due to hold a second round of voting in the presidential election on Wednesday after Gul failed to secure enough votes at the first round last Friday.
(Additional reporting by Daren Butler, Osman Senkul and Mustafa Yukselbaba in Istanbul)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Secular Turks can only hold islamistan at bay up to the point where the majority starts clammering for one. After that, even democracy will ensure a faithful party is elected, and that will lead to islamisation of the secular nation and eventual end of all secularism.
Besides, there's that other option the faithful have and are known to use: any secular country of muslims is always one step away from some islamic revolution or 'struggle' that will topple the secular government/replace it with an islami one.