Jon Snow
One year on from an American ecstasy
Jon Snow assesses the Obama presidency, one year on from his Washington inauguration.
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No beating around the Bush
At last some straight talking about the “special relationship” from George W Bush. He has told The Times it doesn’t matter what people in England think of him now, and it didn’t matter then, when he was President.
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Bush: ‘waterboarding’ prevented UK attacks
As George W Bush defends the use of “waterboarding” for saving British lives, Channel 4’s Job Rabkin looks at the former US president’s defiance and regrets from his time in office.
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Republicans call for midterms ‘referendum’ on Obama
Tuesday’s midterm elections in the US are for seats in Congress, not the White House, but Republicans are calling it a referendum on Barack Obama, with Sarah Palin predicting a “political earthquake”.
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Al-Qaeda's Coming Home
It seems al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has just pulled off a spectacular coup and scared us all ahead of Halloween, writes Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.
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Calls for Iraqi ‘Punk’d’ to be axed
An Iraqi prank show plants fake bombs under celebrities’ cars then threatens the unwitting participants with maximum-security prison.
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Will Nick Clegg foreign policy be his political weakness?
A week ago, not many people outside the Liberal Democrats were taking Nick Clegg’s foreign policy seriously. But a week is a long time in politics, so I have been trying to get the measure of what Mr Clegg might say tonight. Perhaps the best clue is the speech Clegg gave to Chatham House…
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Afghanistan: what to make of the Taliban commander's reported arrest
Pakistanis and Afghans are divided over what to make of the reported arrest in Karachi of the Afghan Taliban’s top military commander and deputy to Mullah Omar himself, writes Jonathan Miller.
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Massachusetts vote makes it harder for Obama to bring change
The winning candidate in the Massachusetts senatorial election, Scott Brown, drove across the state in a truck whipping up anger about everything President Obama has done, and failed to do, in the one year he’s been in office.
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Calling time on the war on terror?
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow asks whether the ‘war on terror’ is still being fought and whether the rules have changed.
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Extra troops for Afghanistan completely misses the point
So, come the small hours this side of the Atlantic, President Obama will address the American nation and confirm his intention to more fully pursue The Bush Doctrine which began in Iraq, through Afghanistan. Bush surged into Baghdad; Obama will surge into Kabul. Meanwhile here Gordon Brown has pre-surged, carefully timing his 500 reinforcements yesterday,…
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Change has come to America
Can you believe it was almost a year ago that “President Elect” Barak Obama told an ecstatic crowd in Chicago that “Change had come to America”? With less than a month to go before the first anniversary of that speech a lot of people in America are asking themselves whether much of that change has…
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Does the airline plot trial signal a new approach?
Of course, the plot sounds crazy – but then so did the plot to attack the twin towers on 9/11. Nevertheless the pattern of the terrorist threat to the UK begins to crystallise. Where it exists, it is home grown and trained in Pakistan. Converts and young men who suddenly “find” their religion after particularly…
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Napolitano's fears over Somali and other terrorists
Perhaps the most interesting line in the US homeland security secretary’s interview with me this morning concerns her fears over Somali Americans carrying out terrorist attacks inside the United States. She concedes that a small number of Somalis have travelled from the US to Somalia to train in jihad. “Right now we are talking about people going…
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White House releases Bush-era torture memos
Memos which shed light on the “extreme interrogation” of terror suspects at detention centres like Guantanamo Bay have been released by White House officials. The four documents, sent to the CIA between 2002 and 2005 by officials in the Bush administration, approve waterboarding – making the suspect feel like they are drowning – sleep deprivation, nudity…