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Canada can’t muzzle me

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Canada Can’t Muzzle Me

To ban me from the country for my views on Afghanistan is absurd, hypocritical, and in vain

By George Galloway

The Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney gazetted in the Sun yesterday morning that I was to be excluded from his country because of my views on Afghanistan. That’s the way the rightwing, last-ditch dead-enders of Bushism in Ottawa conduct their business.

Kenney is quite a card. A quick trawl establishes he’s a gay-baiter, gung-ho armchair warrior, with an odd habit of exceeding his immigration brief. Three years ago he attacked the pro-western Lebanese prime minister, Fuad Siniora, for being ungrateful to Canada for its support of Israeli bombardment of his country. Most curiously of all, in 2006 he addressed a rally of the so-called People’s Mujahideen of Iran, a Waco-style cult, banned in the European Union as a terrorist organization. On one level being banned by such a man is like being told to sit up straight by the hunchback of Notre Dame or being lectured on due diligence by Conrad Black. On another, for a Scotsman to be excluded from Canada is like being turned away from the family home.

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Al megrahi paid high pRice for freedom

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By Abdel Bari Atwan

(source:Gulf News)

In December 2007 I went to Greenock prison outside Glasgow to interview Abdul Basset Ali Al Megrahi, the only person ever convicted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on December 21, 1988.

Given that Al Megrahi was considered such a dangerous prisoner, I was surprised by how few security measures were in place. I had expected to be searched and questioned on arrival, but instead I was simply escorted through to the visiting area where Al Megrahi was waiting for me.

For the next three hours, I hardly spoke as the man gave vent to his feelings. He alternated between anger and despair and frequently broke down in tears. He missed his family and bitterly lamented that his future had been stolen from him.

The same anger and bitterness is, I am sure, shared by the families of the bomb’s 270 victims.

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Interview with khaled meshaal

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INTERVIEW WITH KHALED MESHAAL

 Khaled Meshal

by Gianni Perrelli

Exclusive: The leader of Hamas in exile speaks. He announces an imminent conflict. That is because he says Tel Aviv is not interested in listening to Palestinians. And from America, the opening with Damascus was nothing but words. Conversation with Khaled Meshaal From the Italian news magazine L’Espresso. Translated by Mary Rizzo.

 

"In the name of God, the clement, the merciful, I would like to ask the first question. Is it possible that after the war against Gaza and our heroic resistance, Israel still does not understand that the peace process cannot be done without Hamas…?"

 

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