sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to the crime of denying the holocaust claiming that he now admits that mass murder did take place, but declining to admit to the figure of 6 million, claiming for the first time, "l am not an expert on the Holocaust". Washington DC British firm P&0, who runs ports in Miami, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, New Jersey and New York was recently bought out by Dubai government firm DP World sparking a vicious xenophobic backlash amongst Democrats and Republicans alike, who implied that the government of Dubai was a "terror threat" to US ports and attempted to pass emergency legislation to stop the deal.
The Bush administration has been somewhat perplexed that their anti-Arab campaign has now come back to haunt their big business friends. Meanwhile, Democrats and liberals have jumped on the bandwagon of racist rhetoric simply because they see the issue as leverage against Bush. Birmingham, Britain As new photos came to light last month from Abu Ghraib, along with footage of British soldiers beating teenage Iraqis who had been throwing stones while a cameraman looked on with sadistic glee, Guantanamo Bay prisoner Moazzam Begg released his book recounting his experiences of torture at the hands of US agents and military personnel.
The book is entitled "Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo And Back", published by Free Press on March 6. Copies can be ordered from the Guardian online bookshop at www.guardian.co.uk/bookshop The AUT and NATHE unions have both voted decades.