Identity cards would not have stopped the London bombings which claimed the lives of 37 people and injured many more, Charles Clarke has said.

West turns blind eye as police put Saddam's torturers back to work:

IRAQI security forces, set up by American and British troops, torture detainees by pulling out their fingernails, burning them with hot irons or giving them electric shocks, Iraqi officials say. Cases have also been recorded of bound prisoners being beaten to death by police.

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There were at least 4 bombs that went off mostly on trains/tubes but also on a bus. There are about 30 dead and around 300 injured. The entire tube network is shut down and there are no buses in Zone 1. Everyone is pretty calm, we all knew it was coming..

This is nothing though, compared to the slow suffering deaths of tens of thousands of people in africa due to poverty which could be solved by removing agricultural (and other) subsidies

ie. the G8 are killing far more people a lot more quickly by doing less! (in short they are very much more efficient killers)

Bring on the Revolution !!!

A group calling itself "Secret Organization — al-Qaeda in Europe" has posted a claim of responsibility for the series of blasts in London, a German magazine reported Thursday. Der Spiegel magazine reported that the group posted its message on a Web site popular with Islamic militants, which it did not name. It said the group claimed the explosions were in retaliation for Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Rejoice, Islamic nation. Rejoice, Arab world. The time has come for vengeance against the Zionist crusader government of Britain in response to the massacres Britain committed in Iraq and Afghanistan," read the statement, a photograph of which was displayed on Der Spiegel's Web site. "The heroic mujahedeen carried out a blessed attack in London, and now Britain is burning with fear and terror, from north to south, east to west," it said. The statement went on the warn the governments of Denmark and Italy that they would face "the same punishment" if they fail to withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

SCORES of protesters in Scotland for the G8 summit clashed with police and attacked shops and other businesses as world leaders met at Gleneagles.

The violence in Stirling saw running battles being fought with police as groups of demonstrators smashed cars with iron bars and hurled bricks through the windows of a Burger King.

A furious row also broke out when police cancelled an official march because of earlier trouble.

Organisers of the G8 Alternatives demonstration accused the police of "disgraceful behaviour" in preventing thousands of people the right to stage a peaceful protest.

Tayside Police said it decided to ban the march on the grounds of public safety after running battles between police and anarchists erupted on the streets of Stirling this morning.

A force spokeswoman said: "The G8 Alternatives march in Auchterarder has been cancelled following discussions between police and organisers."

But the organisers said they never agreed to call off the two-mile march, which was due to take demonstrators to within a few hundred yards of the steel fence which has been erected at Gleneagles, where leaders of the world's richest nations were meeting.

Mr Bush told an interview for ITV1 that Prime Minister Tony Blair should not expect any special favours on the environment or Africa because of his staunch support over the war in Iraq. Asked today about whether the US would support debt relief, Mr Brown said: " The issue with George Bush and the Americans is mainly that of climate change. "As far as debt relief is concerned, they actually said they supported debt relief for 38 countries and America actually led the way in this with Britain and France and Germany." There was progress on debt relief, aid and health, Mr Brown said, but there was still a "long way to go". Trade protection policies also had to be addressed, he added. "America's got to change, Europe's got to change, Japan's got to change," Mr Brown said. "I think most people think it's absurd that we spend more subsidising a cow per day in Europe than we do on the amount of money given to a poor child in Africa."

More than 150 anti-capitalist protesters brought disruption to parts of Edinburgh today in a demonstration against G8 leaders. A strong police presence was in place in the centre of Scotland's capital city amid fears that the demonstration - named the Carnival for Full Enjoyment - could erupt into violence. On Princes Street, Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare, police surrounded a group of 30 to 50 protesters. The demonstrators had been blaring horns and banging drums, to which officers responded by sounding their sirens and encircling the group. Other protesters, meanwhile, were allowed to continue marching down Princes Street under police escort. Earlier, officers had searched protesters and removed their masks. A Lothian and Borders police spokesman said there had been only one arrest in connection with the demonstration.