July 29th, 2005
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There were hopes tonight that all four of the chief suspects in the failed suicide bombings of July 21 were in custody after arrests today.
Two of the three remaining main suspects were detained in west London by armed police this afternoon, a security source told Guardian Unlimited.
Italy’s interior minister, Giuseppe Pisanu, said later that a London bomb suspect had also been arrested in Rome.
the guardian
Now the job is to track back the sources. At the same time, to get to the roots of the problem, this story is likely more important in the ongoing WOT,
The Pakistani president today ordered all foreign students in the country’s religious schools - the madrasas - to leave.
The move by General Pervez Musharraf is part of his government’s attempts to crack down on extremism. The Islamic schools have been in the spotlight after reports that one of the London bombers studied at one.
Gen Musharraf also promised to take action against unlicensed madrasas.
the guardian
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Last night I was informed by a journalist that Albert Scardino, the Guardian’s executive editor for news, has resigned as a direct result of Sassygate. My impression from that source’s report is that his position had become untenable because of the split between Mr. Aslam’s supporters and those who wanted him fired (the latter including, to his credit, Ian “Clark County” Katz).
According to that source, Alan Rusbridger has conceded that the Aslam affair and its internal repercussions constitute a significant crisis for the paper.
the daily ablution
Scott Burgess broke the story of the terrorist supporting credentials of Dilpazier Aslam who was hired by the Guardian as an intern and the day after 7/7 wrote an article in which he said,
“The Muslim community is no monolithic whole. Yet there are some common features. Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the don’t-rock-the boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. We’re much sassier with our opinions, not caring if the boat rocks or not.”
Now the news editor has been canned.
Sassy indeed.
Update: For people wanting the full story of the Guardian’s sassy intern go over to TechCentralStation and read Val McQueen’s blow by blow.
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Muslim scholars and community leaders in the US and Canada yesterday responded to what they regarded as unjust criticism that they have remained silent in the wake of the London bombings by issuing a fatwa, or religious ruling, condemning terrorism as forbidden by Islam.
The fatwa was said to be the first of its kind issued in north America and was made public at a Washington news conference that brought together many Islamic scholars, spiritual leaders and Muslim advocacy groups.
While the ruling will be read out in many mosques at Friday prayers across America, organisers were clearly directing their message to the broader public out of concern that Muslims are victims of a backlash that began with the September 11 2001 attacks on the US by al-Qaeda.
financial times
It is vitally important for the vast majority of Muslims to be heard and to have their own religious leaders address and contemn extremism and the terror it breeds.
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The fight over a levy on IPods and other digital music players ended Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further arguments on the matter.
That means there will be no levy applied to digital audio recorders such as Apple’s popular IPod and IPod Shuffle as well as other MP3 players like IRiver.
The non-profit agency had been collecting the tariff - $2 for non-removable memory capacity of up to one GB, $15 for one to 10 GBs, $25 for more than 10 GB - since December 2003 through a tax built into the price of the devices.
It stopped in December 2004 when the Federal Court overturned the policy at the urging of the Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access, a group which represents retailers and manufacturers such as Future Shop, Wal-Mart Canada, Apple Canada, Sony Canada, and Dell Computer Corporation of Canada.
canadian press
Legally this is not terribly surprising. However, from the perspective of trying to balance the rights of content creators with those of consumers this is a bit disappointing.
I have been arguing in favour of a levy to recognize the reality of downloading. Let’s face it, there are lots of people just like Darren Barefoot “I downloaded it” who do not “fully intend to give them the money” (a promise which from Darren I’d believe). A small levy on digital media would go some distance to making sure artists received compensation while avoiding the silliness of the RIAA suing its own customers.
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So I get the giant Firefox gap fixed and what happens? Blogger seems to have blown a server and I can’t even log into my account. Not even to comment on other people’s blogs. Plus the archives have gone.
Time to migrate.
As you can see I am using the basic Info-Syn.com template which is used for The Canadian Bullet and will be used for the rest of the Info-Syn group of blog aggregations.
One reason I need this blog, other than the urge to write once in a while, is that it lets me test post to The Canadian Bullet. There are still lots of bugs there. The biggest being the inability of the software to consistently take only an excerpt from a feed. The objective at the Bullet is to give a quick summary and have people jump off to the various blogs I’m syndicating. Big posts do not make that happen.
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