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Former Labour peer Nazir Ahmed has been found guilty of attempting to rape a young girl and sexually assaulting a boy under 11 in the 1970s. Ahmed, who was formerly Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, was today found guilty of sexual offences against a boy and a girl dating back more than 40 years. A woman told a jury at Sheffield Crown Court that Ahmed, now 64, had attempted to rape her in the early 1970s, when the defendant was about 16 or 17 years old but she was much younger. The former politician was also found guilty of a serious...

Britain's Labour Party on Sunday suspended peer Nazir Ahmed over reports that he offered a £10 million ($15.9 million, 12.1 million euros) bounty for the capture of US President Barack Obama. The Lord also offered a similar incentive for the capture of former US president George Bush in response to a US reward for the capture of suspected terrorist Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, according to Pakistan's Express Tribune newspaper. Saeed, who founded the extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, is wanted for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed. "We have suspended Lord Ahmed pending investigation," a Labour spokeswoman said....

Jerusalem --- February 16, 2009...... Responding to UK MP Lord Nazir Ahmed threats to mobilize 10,000 Jihadists against the English Parliament and Ahmed's calls to arrest British Jews, both Jewish and Christian activists have created a Facebook group demanding that Ahmed is removed from the House of Lords. The Remove Lord Ahmed From The UK House of Lords - Preserve Democracy Facebook group states: "Lord Nazir Ahmed, who was born in Mirpur (Azad Kashmir, Pakistan) has been a UK Labour Party life member since 1998. He was the first Muslim to have been so honoured. Nazir Ahmed’s behaviour matters, both...