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Elections are now too dangerous to be left to chance and to the whims of voters, the Left has decided. Any candidate they put forth could potentially lose, and it will be “factors” that lead to a loss. “Factors” could include: past voting records, past affiliations, the surfacing of compromising emails, photos, acquaintances, past political stance and any range of things that a politician may have done over the years. But what could they achieve if they had a candidate with zero “factors” and no history? They could make of him (or her) whatever they wished. Within the Security Services,...

Suspicions that at least one of the alleged London suicide bombers may have been radicalised while in Pakistan raises questions once again about religious extremism there. Most analysts agree that the London bombers - three of whom police say were Britons of Pakistani descent - were probably trained by "minders" far more experienced in the use of explosives. UK investigators will be keen to know if the London bombers had been trained at any time in Pakistan or neighbouring Afghanistan. The family of one of the suspected bombers has confirmed that he studied religion in Pakistan, although it is not...

By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press WriterWed Jul 13, 8:26 AM ET Pakistan's interior minister said Wednesday that a terror attack was thwarted in Britain before the May general elections in that country — and arrests were made in several countries — because of help from Pakistan's government. "Before the general elections in the U.K. we received reports that this sort of situation might arise, and attacks were aborted because of information provided by the government of Pakistan, and arrests were made in various countries and here," Interior Minster Aftab Khan Sherpao told a news conference in the capital. He gave...

IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS after the horror in London on July 7, media in Britain and abroad focused considerable attention on "Londonistan"--the local zoo of Islamist agitators, almost entirely Arab, who have made headlines for years with their extremist preaching. Analytical lines, many of them useful, were drawn to al Qaeda and Iraq, but almost nobody looked at domestic Muslim extremism in the United Kingdom. Close observers of the British Islamic community, however, few of whom seem to have been consulted by reporters or the government, had been discussing for months a dramatic increase in radical agitation by Pakistani...

Three persons arrested by the Pakistani authorities in March,2003, in connection with the attack on USS Cole in October,2000, had told them during the interrogation that since the Western intelligence agencies were keeping a close watch on the suspected Arab members of the Al Qaeda, bin Laden had asked the LET to recruit Pakistani volunteers for suicide missions to be undertaken by the Al Qaeda and that the LET had already placed 12 Pakistani volunteers for suicide missions at the disposal of the Al Qaeda. Barcelona in Spain, Lisbon in Portugal and Luton and Leeds in the UK have become...

LONDON: The men who attacked the British capital last Thursday may have been 'away day bombers' and some may be of Pakistani ethnicity, the British authorities have said, in a brand new colloquialism destined to add yet another signature phrase to the doleful lingo of 21st-century terrorist threats to world cities. The revelation that the bombers probably traveled up to London on cheap, special-offer return train tickets from fringe British cities such as Leeds, in the Muslim and Pakistani-dominant region of West Yorkshire, came even as London Metropolitan police searched five homes in the area on Tuesday in a possible...

3 bombers were of Pakistani origin: London police H S Rao in London | July 13, 2005 09:31 IST Last Updated: July 13, 2005 10:02 IST Police on Wednesday said at least three of the bombers involved in bombing the London transport system are believed to be British males of Pakistani origin who lived in West Yorkshire in Leeds. The bus bomber is believed to be dead, and police said there was "strong forensic and other evidence" a second bomber died at Aldgate. Investigators are now trying to establish if the other two are alive or died in the explosions....