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June, 2006

 

Judge frees Thai man at deportation hearing and criticises Home Office The Scotsman, 21 June 2006

A judge yesterday freed a Thai-born man on bail to return to Shetland and criticised the Home Office's handling of its attempts to deport him.

 

Britain to keep troops in locally controlled area of Iraq The Scotsman, 17 June 2006

Britain intends to retain a military presence in the first province of Iraq to be handed over to local control, the government has revealed.

 

Al-Qaeda 'facing destruction' The Scotsman, 16 June 2006

Hundreds of insurgents have been captured or killed as a result of information gleaned from the hunting down of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, it was claimed yesterday.

 

Terrorists in crisis, says Zarqawi document The Scotsman, 16 June 2006

Al-Qaeda is being weakened by United States military attacks and propaganda, according to a document allegedly found on a computer belonging to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the organisation's late leader.

 

Mystery of missing MacKenzie millions The Scotsman, 10 June 2006

He was revealed this week as the perpetrator of Scotland's biggest-ever banking fraud. Yet friends of Donald MacKenzie find it hard to believe that the quiet man with a "nondescript" lifestyle could really have embezzled £21 million

 

Celebrations as the 'Prince of al-Qaeda' dies in US air strike The Scotsman, 9 June 2006

The death of the most wanted man in Iraq was greeted with cautious delight by his opponents yesterday after it was confirmed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had finally run out of luck, betrayed by his own followers.

 

Police wait to interview man shot in anti-terrorist raid The Scotsman, 5 June 2006

Investigators today hope to interview one of two brothers held on suspicion of being involved in a terrorist chemical plot.

 

Pair arrested in anti-terrorist raid dispute shooting claims The Scotsman, 5 June 2006

A lawyer for one of two brothers arrested during an anti-terrorist operation yesterday disputed claims that police officers were not responsible for a firearm being discharged.

 

Man shot in anti-terrorism raid The Scotsman, 3 June 2006

Anti-terrorist officers hoping to thwart a plot to carry out a chemical bomb attack in the UK shot and injured a postman after bursting into his home in an early morning raid.

 

Fire chief warns emergency services could not cope with terrorist attack The Scotsman, 2 June 2006

Scotland's emergency services would be overwhelmed in the event of a major terrorist attack, a senior government watchdog warned yesterday.

 

Iraq massacre rocks US The Scotsman, 1 June 2006

Damaging fresh details have emerged of a massacre of Iraqi civilians by US forces in the western city of Haditha, which is rapidly becoming a domestic scandal in the United States on the scale of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse.

 

 

 

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