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Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khansays terror suspect should by tried in UK rather than extradited to the USLabour’s justice spokesman is pressingthe home secretary for Babar Ahmad to be charged in Britain instead of beingextradited to the US to face terrorismcharges, the Guardian has reported. According to the Guardian Theintervention by Sadiq Khan comes asBritish prosecutors admit they decidednot to put Ahmad on trial here afterexamining only some of the evidenceagainst him, even though a substantialpart of the material was collected by British police. Sadiq Khan, whorepresents Tooting in south London,is the constituency MP for Ahmad andanother man, Syed Talha Ahsan, who is
Labour calls for Babar Ahmadto be charged and tried in UK 
SATribune readers should write to the Director of Public Prosecutionsand demand that Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan be put on trial in the UK 
Lord Nazir Ahmed was suspended from the party after aPakistani ¬newspaper reported he allegedly offered cashfor the capture of Mr ObamaFollowing Lord Ahmed’s denial, The Express Tribune’sreporter, who covered the story in Haripur, said hemistakenly wrote the name of current US President
Obama – and claried that the offer was for Bush and
Blair. He said that he and other journalists present onthat occasion have recordings of Lord Nazir’s statement,adding that some TV channels and at least four Urdunewspapers, including a Karachi-based daily, had alsorun the comments – but obviously they did not haveObama’s name. He disclosed that, following the news of the suspension of Lord Ahmed’s Labour membership, hehad been receiving phone calls from unknown people, who were pressurising him and questioning the veracity of the report.
Mistakenly wrote the name of current US President Obama: Express Tribune Reporter
Offer was for Bush and Blair not Obama
Suspension of Lord Ahmed could prove to be “suicideas far as the Muslim vote goes”. George Galloway MP
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The Respect MP, who overturneda 5,000 majority with a 10,000- vote lead over Labour in theBradford West by-election, saidhe represented ‘discontented,alienated people who feel that thisplace [parliament] has let themdown’.
He was ofcially presented to
the House at 3.30pm, afterEducation Questions. He had twosponsors (the chaps who stand beside you while you wait for theSpeaker’s summons). One wasGerry Sutcliffe, Labour MP forBradford South; the other wasSir Peter Tapsell, our longest-serving MP (Commons debut:1959) and thus known as theFather of the House. And the bigmoment came. “Order,” cried theSpeaker. “Would the HonourableMember wishing to take his seatplease come to the table?” TheHouse fell silent. Mr Galloway stepped forward, bowed his headto the Speaker once, reached thetable, bowed his head again. “I,George Galloway,” he read aloud,“do solemnly, sincerely and truly 
declare and afrm that I will be
faithful and bear true allegiance toHer Majesty Queen Elizabeth, herheirs and successors, accordingto law.” The Conservative Chief  Whip shook hands gratefully withthe thrasher of Labour. Mark Tami (Lab, Alyn & Deeside) placedparty differences aside and pattedMr Galloway on the shoulder.Respect’s George Galloway has returned to the House of Commons, insisting he is “justthe advance party” for the army “mustering in the North”.Speaking at Parliament’s StStephen’s entrance, Mr Galloway 
 vowed to use his rst week back 
in the Commons to raise the warin Afghanistan, likening it to Vietnam.He said: “It is good to be back  but I’m just the advance party.There’s an army mustering in theNorth and in the great industrialand post-industrial cities of thiscountry, an army of discontented,alienated people who feel that thisplace has let them down, it hasfailed the country and it has failedthe people.“I notice that New Labour is
terried of any further by-
elections and I can understand why because this concept that Ihave coined, it’s rather rude, thatthree cheeks of the same backsidepretty much sums them up as faras most people in the country areconcerned.”Mr Galloway, accompanied by hisfourth wife, 27-year-old Dutch/Indonesian anthropologist PutriPertiwi, said he would press foraction in the “wake of the frankly disastrous military situation which is becoming like Vietnam1968”.In an interview with the Big Issue,Mr Galloway claimed he is the“Robin Hood” of British politics,saying: “If I was a bigamist, I’d beunder arrest. If I was a tax dodger,I’d be under arrest. I’m the mostinquired-into individual in Britishpolitics. By a country mile.“If I did things wrong, be sure I’d be already in big trouble.“We have a prevailing orthodoxy:there’s a few inches of politicallife in which it’s acceptable tohave a different view but if youchallenge the fundamentals of policy, you’re an outlaw. You’reRobin Hood.”
The “Robin Hood”of British politics
George Galloway, the new MP for Bradford West,make his return to the House of Commons.
 A deant George Galloway returned to the House
of Commons yesterday insisting he was ‘just theadvance party’ for the ‘army mustering in the north’.
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He is renowned forrefusing to fade into the background and GeorgeGalloway certainly lived upto his reputation at PrimeMinister’s Questions.
Mr Galloway, elected RespectMP for Bradford West, lastmonth, returned to theCommons yesterday after a two- year absence. Called to ask the
nal question of the half-hour
session, the politician took thechance to bring up the Afghan
conict and withdrawal of British
troops. Mr Galloway said: “As I was saying Mr Speaker, there isan iron-clad consensus acrossthe frontbenches about whatthey now call a ‘mission’, butgiven the amount of blood on theground and rapidly deterioratingmilitary situation most of us calla ‘war’ in Afghanistan.”
Mr Galloway called the ghting
“a bloody maw” and asked MrCameron to reconsider Britain’sposition of withdrawing troops by the end of 2014, following Australian prime minister JuliaGillard’s accelerated timetablefor pulling out Australian forces.David Cameron congratulatedGeorge Galloway on his win in theBradford West by-election, butsaid he “profoundly disagreed” with the Respect Party MP and warned him not to “play to thegallery”.“Our troops are in Afghanistan
not ghting a war against Islam
 but at the invitation of an Islamicgovernment and under a UnitedNations resolution to try andhelp that country have a peaceful,prosperous and stable future.“You know the dangers in thepast of walking away from Afghanistan and leaving thatcountry to become the terrorist-supporting haven it did underthe Taliban.“We mustn’t make that mistakeagain and I would urge you notplay to the gallery on this issue but to speak up for the work our forces are doing to make Afghanistan a safer country.”
George Galloway In Spotlight At PMQs
George Galloway was not impressed by David Cameron’s comment 
 
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 A policeman recorded allegedly raciallyabusing a young blackman under arrest in east  London last year will now be charged over theincident.
 In a major u-turn, the CrownProsecution Service has decided
there IS sufcient evidence to put
Pc Alex MacFarlane before a court.The original decision not tocharge MacFarlane was taken back in January despite a mobilephone recording featuring racially offensive words. When the tape was made publicthe CPS announced a review of the decision as further allegations
of racism by Met Police ofcers
emerged.Today the CPS has said theoriginal decision was wrong and“regrettable”.MacFarlane will shortly be issued with a summons for a racially aggravate public order offencethough the decision not to chargehim with assaulting the 21 year oldstill stands.The lawyer who made the decisionis having his work reviewed anddecisions he’s made in other casesare being re-examined.The incidents range from racistlanguage in emails to the use of then***** word.
The gures, obtained under the
Freedom of Information act, date back to the Macpherson report13 years ago which followed thedeath of black teenager StephenLawrence and led to the Met Police being labelled “institutionally racist”. Also on Tuesday, a review by theCrown Prosecution Service (CPS)
found “sufcient evidence” to chargeMet Police ofcer Alex McFarlane
 with a “racially aggravated publicorder offence”, and has now advised the Independent PoliceComplaints Commission (IPCC) topress charges.
The ofcer was accused of using
racist language against a 21-year-old black man, and was apparently recorded by the suspect on hismobile phone.Earlier this month, Channel 4 Newsrevealed 120 race cases inside theMet and just one dismissal duringthe same time frame. This data,gathered from 31 forces in England,Scotland, Wales and NorthernIreland, completes the nationalpicture.
Police racism: 293 cases,
ve dismissals
Scotland Yard Pc charged with racially abusing riots suspect
Considering his ordeal over the past17 years, Sultan Alam has surprisingadvice for a young Asian man or womanconsidering joining the police: “Do it. Butdo so with your eyes open because no oneshould think they cannot break the glassceiling in any organisation.”
Monday Mr Alam, a retired trafc ofcer
 with Cleveland Police, was awarded morethan £840,000 for loss of earnings anddamages after staging a one-man battleagainst his former employer dating back to 1994.Cleveland police admitted maliciousprosecution towards Alam during ahearing at Leeds Crown Court last year. It was there the trial heard that Alam’ s policecolleagues who had conspired to falsely send Alam to prison, were themselvesnever tried before a crown court. Three
of those ofcers have left the service, but
one remains a serving constable. Alam’s crime in the eyes of his colleagues was that he made a complaint about their bigoted behavior after he endured a seriesof racial incidents including being postedKu Klux Klan material.Having been falsely convicted of theft, Alam’s life fell apart. His marriage brokedown, as did his health, and reputation.During his time in prison – nine months
- as an ex police ofcer, he said that he
 was a marked man, always ‘fearful forhis wellbeing.’ Like many of you I amconvinced that with the race cases that we already know about including thisone, along with the very suspicious andcontroversial recent Black deaths in policecustody, the call for a Public Enquiry intoracism within our police force is becominglouder and louder.
Clearly if police ofcers such as those inCleveland felt condent and arrogantenough to ‘t up’ one of their own, what
chance do we have or worse still, who’sgoing to believe a petty Black criminal
 when they claim they have been ‘tted
up’? Looking back on his battle, Mr Alamsaid he never considered giving up. “It was never about the money. It’s about theprinciple. It’s about what’s right,” he said.
 Asian ofcer wins
£840,000 compensation
Cleveland Police forced to make payout for
racism that blighted trafc ofcer’s career
Lord Ahmed said the claim was“made of lies”. He added: “It wasa discussion about people
investingin Pakistan and yes, I did talk aboutillegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.“But I did not mention any bounty orPresident Obama. I will answer all theallegations made to the party leadership.”The peer said he had “video recordings”of his comments and would make them
public, if necessary, after rst giving
them to the Labour Party.Respect MP George Galloway, winner of the Bradford West by-election, said thesuspension of Lord Ahmed could proveto be “suicide as far as the Muslim votegoes”.Lord Nazir Ahmed recently invitedas guest Sheikh Rashid leader of thePakistan Awami Muslim League ,Former Federal Minister of Pakistan andDr Khalid deputy Leader of the Jamat-e- Islami Azad Kashmir at the House of Lords on Wednesday 28th March 2012 at6 pm Committee Room 3 . Sheikh Rashidis one of the leader of recently formed
Difa e Pakistan including Haz Saeed
Saeed, whose JuD is believed to be linkedto anti-India militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, despite U.S. was unsure of Saeedrole in 26/11 attack The US announced areward worth $10 million for the captureor any information leading to the captureof Saeed, making him one of the most wanted persons in the world.
Haz Saeed, responded to the US
 bounty and said that he will be in Lahoreand the US can contact him wheneverit wants. “The bounty is always set onpeople who are in hiding… There is nocase against me in any American court,”he maintained while terming the bounty absurd.
Britain’s Labour Party suspended LordNazir Ahmed after a report on Sunday quoted him as offering £10 million($15.9 million) for the capture and trialof UK and US leaders in retaliation tothe $10 million offered by the US forthe capture and trial of religious leader
Haz Saeed. Lord Nazir denied passing
these remarks immediately. His denial was partially accurate, given that henever mentioned the name of currentUS President Barack Obama or the word“bounty”, as the The Express Tribune hadreported. Instead, he made an “offer” for bringing to justice former US presidentGeorge W Bush and former UK primeminister Tony Blair for what he termedto be their war crimes. Likening the twocases, he said that if the reward for Saeed was ok, then his offer for Bush and Blair was also ok. Whether his suspension was for mentioning President Obama’sname, or the nature of the commentsitself is unclear.
Offer was for Bush and Blair not Obama
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