STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Not to worry! Most of the time, we cannot tell the difference between the two! Sandeep -----Original Message----- My apologies for conflating the US and UK. RR --- Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor > -------------------------- > Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! > 1. Fill in the brief application > 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds > 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% > Ongoing APR and no > annual fee! > Apply NOW! > http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Spare the whip - it's savage, inhumane - says the > world's fourth major executioner and premier war > criminal. > Which power continues to station troops on Saudi > soil > and use the country as a military outpost in the > Persian Gulf. > Everything was all right until the mother country's > own citizens were given a few lashes. > > > --- "Sandeep Vaidya (LMI)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > > > --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor > > -------------------------- > > Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! > > 1. Fill in the brief application > > 2. Receive approval decision within 30 > seconds > > 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% > > Ongoing APR and no > > annual fee! > > Apply NOW! > > http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > (The Hindu, June 5, 2001) > > Spare the whip, U.K. tells Saudi Arabia > > By Hasan Suroor > > LONDON, JUNE 4. As a former colonial power used to > > whipping the natives, Britain is clearly > embarrassed > > that its own citizens now find themselves at the > > wrong end of the whip as it appeals to the Saudi > > Arabian Government to forgive four Britons who > have > > been sentenced to flogging for allegedly illegal > > alcohol trading. > > The four are to be given up to 500 lashes each, > > besides prison sentences, provoking outrage here > > with the British Government calling it an > > infringement of human rights. Diplomatic moves are > > reported to be on to save them from public > > humiliation, even if it means longer prison > > sentences as a price for escaping the whip. > > Families of the four men, including a > > son-in-law-father-in-law duo, are believed to have > > been advised by the Foreign Office not to do or > say > > anything that might prove counter-productive and > > undermine diplomatic efforts. A Foreign Office > > spokesperson said British diplomats in Riyadh were > > in ``constant contact'' with the Saudi authorities > > and pointed out that the British Government had > > consistently taken the view that corporal > punishment > > infringed human rights. > > The Government's understandably cautious approach > > has not gone down too well with the families of > > those facing flogging, and the wife of one was > > quoted in The Times as saying: ``We are in a > > terrible dilemma. We want to protest about this > > barbaric sentence and get something done but we > are > > afraid if we do then it will be worse for our men. > > > The Prime Minister and Robin Cook (foreign > > secretary) must step in. This is medieval.'' The > > four - Kelvin Hawkins, David Mornin, Paul Moss and > > Ken Hartley - are among 12 Britons who were > detained > > by the Saudi authorities following a crackdown on > > bootleggers last winter. A turf war among > expatriate > > British bootleggers was alleged to be behind a > > series of bombings in Saudi Arabia last year. > > A British hospital worker, Sandy Mitchell, has > since > > been shown on Saudi T.V. confessing to one such > > bombing in which one British businessman was > killed. > > Human rights groups have expressed doubts about > the > > authenticity of the ``confession'' saying it may > > have been extorted from Mitchell. > > There is temptation here to take comfort from the > > fact that no Briton has been flogged in Saudi > Arabia > > since 1985 when John Kelly of Dorset was given 250 > > lashes for breaking the country's anti-drinking > law. > > Since then, at least three Britons have been > spared > > the rod and, instead, given longer sentences or > > deported - a precedent which has been widely > > recalled in the media here in the campaign to save > > the four. > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! 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