Al-Muhajabah's Islamic BlogsThree blogs for the price of one!Blair announces Iraq troop withdrawals- February 22, 2007 The US government tonight welcomed Britain's decision to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, despite its own surge of more than 20,000 soldiers to the country. Tony Blair announced a cut of more than 2,000 UK personnel in Basra by the end of the summer, in a special statement to parliament today... ...Mr Blair revealed that, since the successful completion of Operation Sinbad in the South, he would be able to authorise the pullout of some UK troops. The current total of 7,100 will be cut to..http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/the_clipboard/010915.php British right-wing terrorist plot update- February 14, 2007 Awhile ago, I posted about an apparent terrorist plot in Britain that wasn't getting any news coverage, apparently because the suspects are white right-wing extremists. When we last heard anything about this story, the suspects were scheduled to go on trial in February. So now it's February and the trial has begun, with one of the suspects pleading guilty. And now it's getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream media. These headlines give an idea why: Ex-BNP man 'wanted to shoot PM' Former..http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/veiled4allah/010914.php |