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MESSAGE on the airplane used by Richard Branson to reach the Mojave Desert, where the British billionaire unveiled the craft (right) that would provide the world's first commercial spaceflight...
...Episode titles of the British dramedy Secret Diary of a Call Girl...
Following the rejection of McKinnon's appeal against extradition, the hacker's lawyer claimed that the British government had decided not to prosecute him under U.K. law so that the U.S. could "make an example of him" - a charge that carries some uncomfortable echoes. "They do seem to be going to inordinate lengths to get this guy extradited," notes Jordan, "but they could as much be making a point about extradition laws as about computer crime." It's possible, he says, "that the Bush Administration's hard line is of a piece with the kind of things we've seen...
...leaving the White House, Clarke has written Against All Enemies, a scathing critique of the Bush Administration's handling of the war on terrorism. Clarke, who was in charge of U.S.-U.K. cooperation on Diego Garcia in the early '90s, says using the island for interrogations or detentions without British permission "is a violation of U.K. law, as well as of the bilateral agreement governing the island...
...significance. While the governments of Poland and Romania have faced few domestic consequences for their rumored cooperation with U.S. counterterrorism measures, many in Britain have been voluble in their opposition to what they see as the U.S.'s abrogation of human rights as well as violations of law and British sovereignty. Says the chief spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: "Our intelligence and counterterrorism relationship with the U.S. is vital to the national security of the United Kingdom. We accept U.S. assurances on rendition in good faith. But if others have definitive evidence of rendition through...