CAIRO, May 6, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Four Muslim candidates won British elections, in what many of the three-million strong minority hailed as a considerable victory that could lead to a more political role in the heavy-weight European country.
Muhammad Sarwar and Khalid Mahmood were re-elected. Sadiq Khan and Shahid Malik, both lawyers and activists known for their advocacy of Muslim issues, also become new MPs, according to the Web site of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Friday, May 6.
The win was welcomed by British Muslim leaders, who hope the double presence on the 659-member House of Commons would serve causes of their minority.
“We are delighted to see that four MPs are Muslims, and hope the number of British Muslims joining the mainstream political parties would mark an increase in the future,” MCB Secretary General, Iqbal Sacranie, told IOL over the phone.
Sacranie’s MCB, the UK's representative Muslim umbrella body with over 400 affiliated organizations, mosques, charities and schools, said it would continue to work with the elected government to ensure that election promises on policy issues that affect the community are delivered.
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Bolton Hearings Highlight Internal Differences on Cuba's Biological Weapons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398410/posts
Bolton’s initial draft read, “The United States believes that Cuba has a developmental offensive biological weapons program and is providing assistance to other rogue state programs.” It also called for international inspectors to monitor Cuba’s biological facilities.
The speech that Bolton delivered read, “The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort. Cuba has provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states. We are concerned that such technology could support [biological weapons] programs in those states. We call on Cuba to cease all [biological weapons]-applicable cooperation with rogue states and to fully comply with all of its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention.”
Indeed, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice in a May 2002 television interview questioned the usefulness of such inspections in Cuba. “I will say that you can show someone a biotech lab and be assured that they’re not creating weapons of mass destruction. That’s not how biological weapons work. They’re actually very easy to conceal.”
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That's probably why we didn't find Saddam's biological weapons.