What? Are you suggesting that jihadists would take advantage of government largesse to plot against that same government? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?
From the Yorkshire Post, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
ANTI-terror police have raided a Government-funded computer training centre in Yorkshire in an investigation into links with the July 7 suicide bombers, the Yorkshire Post can reveal.The IT2 Home training facility, in Staniforth Road, Sheffield, which is part of the Learndirect network, was one of three premises raided in Yorkshire as part of inquiries into the terrorist attacks in London on July 7.
A team of forensic experts yesterday removed computer equipment from the centre in the Darnall area of the city, which has a large Muslim Asian population.
Sources have told the Yorkshire Post that the police are investigating the potential use of computers by the bombers in the run-up to the attacks in the capital....
Not just Sheffield, Leeds as well.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4252668.stm
Those Government-funded learning centres have always been a joke, if not a scandal. They exist in theory to do something about unemployment, in practice to apportion what the Americans call "pork". No wonder the Islamists have been taking advantage; everyone else has. I remember one hilarious case described in PRIVATE EYE magazine long ago (and never denied): in a northern town, I forget which, there was one such learning centre directed particularly at women. After years of financing, some official or other started questioning its results - which, as far as getting unemployed women employed, seemed near zero. So they went and inspected the place.
They found that they had not done much to train women in new technologies, true; but that the centre had become the busiest lesbian meeting place in town.
Granny:
Good morning from Cana-duh. Links courtesy of Hitchensweb to articles and opinions on the debate. As I guessed at the outset, being held by at an NYC university under the auspices of Democracy Now and "moderated" by Amy Goodman, it was likely to be a Gallawi-friendly "debate", but I suspect that Hitchens probably scored some deeper body blows than the anti-regime change left would want us to believe. An excerpt from American Enterprise On-Line:
Though cathartic to watch, Wednesday’s event was not a debate, for that requires both sides to actually engage each other in an intellectual give and take. Hitchens v. Galloway Round II can best be summed up as two ships passing in the night. Exasperated with the course of the evening’s discussion, namely, Galloway’s playing the audience as if he were an orchestra conductor, Hitchens characterized much of the anti-war movement when he sighed in frustration, “Mr. Galloway appears to think that anything will do.” Shout anti-war, anti-capitalist, and anti-American pieties, and you will always get a positive response from the hard left peanut gallery.
Despite Hitchens’ best effort, there was little discussion of the actual topic that made Galloway famous in the United States: his alleged taking of bribes from Saddam Hussein. Though Galloway has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, it is an issue, according to Hitchens, that is “going to haunt him on every stop of this tour and all the way back to England and everywhere he goes to raise the flag of Jihad in the Middle East.” From the esteemed MP for Damascus, one should expect to hear little more than zoo noises in response.
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18747/article_detail.asp
Al-Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1571538,00.html
someone's blog:
the missing link (Patrick Belton's blog):
http://oxblog.blogspot.com/2005_09_11_oxblog_archive.html#112673869544633126
Funny how JW/DW is blocked on all Public computers in my borough (Surrey Heath) while up in north jihadists use govt. funded computers...
Waterdragon
Thank you for those links. I was impressed how well Hitchens kept his temper.
Vikrant I have never had to use the library PCs in my own borough but I visit Suffolk reguarly and the access in their county librarys is intermitant. I one library I was able to read but not post. In another I could read some stories but others would suddenly click to "cannot be displayed" after a few seconds. The librarians just shrugged and said the PCs were set up very pequliarly, lots of people could not get access to all sorts of perfectly innocuous sites. Which was no help.
The other thing I have noticed about library machines in several counties is the disablement of the right click facility to open a new window. Now then, only one window at a time. Don't try your fancy stuff here, please, Madam.
I received this email from my dear friend in Yorkshire on Thursday last.
"I had a nasty shock the other day walking through Leeds on the way home. An Asian-looking chap (in British sense, ie Pakistani-type) wearing a t-shirt with a Union Jack flag on it. Nothing so bad about that, you'd think. But the Union Jack wasn't in red and blue on a white t-shirt, it was all in green on a white t-shirt, with a small crescent in the middle of the flag. I went cold."
Well Granny i could access JW from Libraries until May when a Bangladeshi guy got it blocked and me thrown outta the library. I've to take extra care not let my parents know that i log onto JW, i used to run an anti-jihadi website but my parents made me shut it down. In Britain a teen surfing porn websites is perfectly normal but a teen surfing political sites is abnormal... doesnt make sense.