I flew in to London from Malaysia the other day to find a prolific number of armed cops from the trigger-happy Metropolitan Police Force patrolling Heathrow Airport's terminal buildings.

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On October 12 1984 there was a direct attack on the British Government at the Conservative party conference in the seaside resort of Brighton.

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** Originally published in Yemen Mirror on 20 July 2006

We've all heard of the Emperor's new clothes, but at the moment we seem to have a line of stark naked emperors performing a snake-like Conga right across the Middle East.

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News has just arrived on my desk that Abdallah Shamil Abu Idris, the Military Amir of the Mujahideen of Caucasus, has become a Shaheed. He's probably better known to most readers of this column as the fearless Chechen commander Shamil Basaev, loved and adored by many although the likes of Vladamir Putin have always regarded him as an enemy of Russia.

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MY e-mail inbox has been overflowing these past few weeks on a subject that seems to have gripped the Muslim world since I gave it an airing in this newspaper.

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British-born, award-winning journalist Yvonne Ridley is well known in the Muslim world for her outspoken views and defence of Islam. She endeared herself to the Muslim community in Britain when she reverted to Islam 30 months after making international headlines when she was captured by the Taleban on an undercover assignment in Afghanistan. She was a senior reporter of the Sunday Express at the time, having spent nearly 10 years in Fleet Street working for several prestige titles including The Sunday Times, The Observer, Daily Mirror and Independent on Sunday...

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