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Jon Snow
Here’s an intriguing statistic: since the introduction of air marshals on US airlines after 9/11, just four people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism on-board an airliner. That represents a cost of $200m per arrest.
Jon Snow
Put simply, he’s in Israel to try to dissuade the Israelis from bombing Iran. There remains a strong thread of opinion inside the Israeli cabinet that argues that Iran is building a nuclear bomb and needs to be stopped in its tracks. Reportedly, Israel does not have a supply of the American developed deep bunker…
Jon Snow
He reported Africa from the late 50s to the early 90s. He reported from Central America and covered the fall of the Shah in 1979 and the ensuing Iranian Revolution.
Jon Snow
Despite my best efforts, the eleven minute dash on my bike from the studio after last night’s Channel 4 News to London’s Royal Festival Hall, only graced me with the echoes of the last chords of Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto. To have missed Daniel Barenboim’s exuberant performance so closely, felt like an act of sacrilege.
Yemen has sent its prime minister, two deputy prime ministers and its foreign minister to today’s London meeting to discuss the situation in Yemen, blogs Jonathan Rugman.
The Iraq Inquiry blogger reports on the evidence given by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Turnbull.
Alastair Campbell, speaking to the Iraq Inquiry, called the publication of the second intelligence dossier, dubbed the “dodgy dossier” in February 2003 a “mistake”.
Finally for today a few suggestions of our own. Evidence begins at 10h00 – Gary Gibbon will be inside the Inquiry room for the main bulletin and we’ll be Live Tweeting from the press-room next door throughout.
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks back at what had been learned from “phase 1” of the Chilcot inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war.
The Iraq Inquiry blogger looks ahead the final day of the ‘narrative’ part of proceedings.
International political commentators say that Yemen’s lawlessness, porous borders and poverty have made it a safe haven for al-Qaida and a breeding ground for terrorism.
Our Iraq Inquiry blogger looks upon as the Silent Assassin Roderic Lyne strikes again.
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Jon Snow looks forward to 2010 and the changes a general election, Iran, China and the next steps for a climate change deal.
Admiral Boyce claimed officials were told to “stay in their tents” rather than rebuild post-war Iraq. Lt Gen Sir Robert Fry told the inquiry its staff “could barely conceal their moral disdain” for UK government policy. Major General Tim Cross called its then-Secretary of State Clare Short “unhelpful.”
Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq war inquiry: “Explosive” evidence from Major General Tim Cross reveals Tony Blair was told “we are not ready” for post-war Iraq, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger for Channel 4 News.