Government’s counter-extremism strategy faces court challenge
Muslim activist Dr Salman Butt has launched legal action against the Home Secretary after he was named in a Government press release about hate preachers.
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In another sign of geo-political change, President Macron has announced his intention to withdraw French troops from Mali.
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John Bolton was a military advisor to President George W Bush when the decision to invade Afghanistan was taken.
We were joined by Mary Beth Long, who was a US Assistant Secretary of Defence under George W Bush.
We spoke to Ahmad Wali Massoud, a former Afghan ambassador to the UK. His brother, Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, was assassinated by Al-Qaeda two days before 9/11.
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“Betrayal of the treacherous is loyalty in the eyes of God. I betrayed a bunch of criminals, it’s as simple as that” – the words of one of MI6’s most important spies in the war on terror, Aimen Dean. He worked with Al Qaeda’s master bombmaker in a training camp in Afghanistan in the nineties.…
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It’s a remarkable story two former Al-Qaeda hostages who survived six years in captivity in Mali have finally been freed. They were kidnapped by extremists in Timbuktu in 2011 who demanded a ransom of 10 million euros for each of them. Both have now said they’re not clear if any money changed hands in return…
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President Assad contradicted previous statements on Khan Sheikhun made by his allies in Moscow and members of his own government.
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It’s true that in 2011, the processing of Iraqi refugees entering the US slowed down after tighter vetting was introduced. But it wasn’t an outright ban.
Muslim activist Dr Salman Butt has launched legal action against the Home Secretary after he was named in a Government press release about hate preachers.