He had the Pentagon pilot with him at the flying school and Raissi was there to ensure the pilots were capable and trained for
Posted in General on 29. Aug, 2010
He had the Pentagon pilot with him at the flying school and Raissi was there to ensure the pilots were capable and trained for their purpose,” she claimed.The court was told that between 1999 and 2000 Mr Raissi attended a number of flying schools in America along with several of the alleged hijackers. “He was there in the background to train and to facilitate the training of these pilots,” Mrs Sambir said.”We have sufficient evidence to show not just association with the pilots – it goes further than that we have evidence of active conspiracy proving correspondence and telecommunications with them.”Police found a pilot’s log at Mr Raissi’s house with a “whole chunk” of pages missing covering the period when he was allegedly training the pilots.. The security services may be forced to open classified files to members of the public in a landmark legal ruling next week that will quash government moves to keep them secret. The security services may be forced to open classified files to members of the public in a landmark legal ruling next week that will quash government moves to keep them secret.
Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat spokesman for freedom of information, will be given the right to apply to see an MI5 file believed to be held on him covering his activities during an environmental protest in the 1980s.The Data Protection Tribunal is expected to rule on Monday that Jack Straw, when he was Home Secretary, was wrong to issue a blanket High Court ban on releasing all MI5 files. The decision may open the door for the release of thousands of top-secret documents.The ruling will prove a serious blow to the Government, which has argued in secret hearings that public access to files could lead to the release of classified information threatening national security.But lawyers acting for the MP argued that maintaining secrecy should not be an excuse to hold back information that would not compromise the task of gathering intelligence.Overturning the ban will mean MI5 will have to release classified documents for the first time in its 92-year history.The Government is expected to issue a challenge to limit the documents it must release so that operations against terrorists and money launderers, for example, are not compromised.Campaigners hope the ruling could set a precedent for security matters to be dealt with case by case.Mr Baker believes that releasing his file will have no implications for national security.
The MP was informed by an MI5 source, codenamed “the mechanic”, that there was a file on him covering his involvement in legal protests in East Sussex against the upgrading of the A27 while he was serving on the district council.The security services never confirm or deny whether information is held on members of the public. But Mr Baker applied to see the file under the Data Protection Act that came into force last year and was blocked by the former home secretary, who said the security services should be exempt from releasing internal documents.MI5 is said to hold 440,000 files, 290,000 of which are on individuals including MPs and peace protesters.The ruling on Monday will allow Mr Baker to press ahead with his attempt to see the documents. It will also allow other individuals involved in environmental protests or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament to apply to see their files if they believe they have been subject to surveillance.. A widow aged 69 who tried to murder her deaf, blind and bedridden mother in a mercy killing wept yesterday when she was given a suspended prison sentence. A widow aged 69 who tried to murder her deaf, blind and bedridden mother in a mercy killing wept yesterday when she was given a suspended prison sentence.
Doreen Marshall had admitted crushing sleeping pills into her 90-year-old mother’s food and drink in desperation at the quality of her life on 27 May this year.
Marshall, from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, received a 12-month sentence suspended for two years for attempted murder after the judge at Aylesbury Crown Court heard the exceptional circumstances surrounding her plan to kill Cecilia Maxwell, who was incontinent and had suffered years of clinical depression, at her residential home in Luton.Passing sentence, Judge Rodwell QC said: “It is, I think, common ground between prosecution and defence that your mother’s existence was absolutely wretched beyond belief … I am quite satisfied on the evidence before me that what you were attempting [what] is sometimes described as a mercy killing.”What your motive was, was one of mercy and consideration for your mother,” he said “The law does not permit mercy killing. That is the law, there are very good reasons for that law, but I have to pass a sentence of imprisonment to mark the gravity of this offence.”He said he considered there to be exceptional circumstances so that the jail sentence could be suspended.Isobel Delamare, for the prosecution, told the hearing that on Sunday, 27 May, Marshall, one of four daughters, had crushed 45 sleeping tablets into her mother’s food and drink and then given it to her.Mrs Maxwell became unconscious but survived. Marshall told police later: “I just wanted her to sleep and be out of her misery I’m not sorry. The only thing I am sorry about is that it didn’t work.”Piers Reed, for the defence, said Marshall had watched her second husband die a “protracted and painful death” from cancer and could no longer bear to watch her mother suffer.
He said the attempt “was not done through malice, it was done through love”.. Victoria Climbie’s father said yesterday that he felt no blame for allowing a great-aunt to take his daughter to England, where she was savagely beaten, starved and tortured to death. Victoria Climbie’s father said yesterday that he felt no blame for allowing a great-aunt to take his daughter to England, where she was savagely beaten, starved and tortured to death.
Francis Climbie told the third day of the inquiry into Victoria’s death that it was customary in the family’s home country, Ivory Coast, for a well-off relative to take a child to Europe for schooling. “I have been asked whether I lay blame to myself for handing over Victoria in this way and I can say that I do not because it’s custom for people to be taken to Europe,” Mr Climbie said. “It was going to be in Victoria’s best interests.”The hearing was told that Victoria, who was aged eight when she died, left Africa in October 1998 with Marie Therese Kouao, a great-aunt her parents scarcely knew. They hoped Victoria, a very intelligent child who “stood out” from her six brothers and sisters, would be successful and train for a career. But less than 18 months later, she died in a London hospital with 128 different injuries inflicted by Kouao, 44, and her boyfriend, Carl Manning, 28, who are serving life sentences for her murder.Mr Climbie broke down when he saw a photograph of Victoria with two front teeth missing, an eye half closed and her face disfigured by scars and burns “It is very horrible,” he said “She was not like this before She was a very pretty girl.