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ie before he was a terrorist.

Even if a player can get their head round the different roles they tend to be pretty different physical types. CBs tend to be tall and powerful, FBs smaller and faster.

Didnt he kick up a bit at Salzburg in order to get his move away? - saying during the summer he wouldn't play for them again (I honestly am not sure if I remember it or not). If he did it was inevitable he would do the same to us if he was a success at Saints.

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Its hard to know what is 'success' and 'good government' in the middle east. Are the 1,000 judicial deaths year in relatively stable and functioning Iran worse than the chaos in Syria? Im coming round to the idea that democracy is not an option and the best you can hope for is stable dictatorship with an 'acceptable' death toll of dissenters. Not a position I would ever have imagined supporting 10 years ago.

Sure, but you dont accuse someone of lying based on the fact that a sentence was mildly ambiguous.

Thats why there is comma after Saudia Arabia

Still missing those pesky little details and facts.

Im not having a swipe at you. I have respect for you and the job you do. I was having the swipe ant the 'I know but cant say how, top secret guv' type of post. I also didn't say you were sexing it, just that the guy running the course probably was. Its that kind of inattention to detail which can cause you to draw wrong assumptions.

My point is that you aren't in a position to know. Its all from second and third hand sources who are working years after the events and are trying to sex up their routine work of running courses for junior MoD staff. My uncle can give you chapter of verse on US security failings, why US (and British airports) airports security is still full of holes and why the Americans should have been better organised so they picked up information that, if properly analysed would have lead them to suspect something was going on. But they didn't. Nothing that was heard at the time was actionable. Makes no odds to me whether you believe it or not. Im not involved in that field and he is retired

Jamie, you are a junior staffer at MOD having previously been a junior rating in the RN. Nothing wrong with that, except when you try to big yourself up.

ffs Jamie. This reads like a petrol station spy novel. Its well documented that US homeland security was relatively weak and complacent prior to 9/11. Had they been better prepared they might have caught a whiff. They didnt. We can all trade contacts. Mine is my uncle, formerly responsible for security at the major buildings in Saudia Arabia, OPEC HQ, close friends of the SAS Colonel at the time. They had nothing substantive.

So you've said. There is zero evidence of that and testimony from two Presidents and an Congressional enquiry to the contrary. If you have something post it up.

Thats a hoary old myth. There had been lots of white noise for years that Al Queda wanted to reach the US (as is obvious since they were thir biggest enemy). The US expected an attack in general terms but there was no specific intelligence, as the document just before 9/11 shows . The 'Taliban' warning actually came from the Northern Alliance months before when a leader warned he had heard something about Al Queda wanting to hijack planes in the US but had no specifics - who, where or when.

Compare recent attendances for the same league. We averaged 20,982 in League 1 in 2009/10 and 22,100 in 2010/11. The Fishy Few got 12,200 in 2012/13. http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-league-one-2009-2010/1/ Its not even close, I dont know why they keep bringing it up.

A different view Not everyone is convinced by the effectiveness of Prevent. Yahya Birt, an academic researching Muslim political activism, and a member of the #EducationNotSurveillance network, says children are being “scooped up” and stigmatised as potential extremists, pointing to figures that suggest only 20% of those referred to Channel up to 2013 were assessed as needing its intervention. A document submitted by the Muslim Council of Britain to the UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, appears to show that the strategy is leading to discrimination against Muslims. Teachers told the MCB that pupils are being asked to do presentations on sensitive subjects – such as the Syrian conflict – to elicit their views, or those of their parents. They cite referrals for pupils using such terms as alhamdulillah – praise be to God – and quote a teacher who told them of a request to refer a Muslim boy to Channel after he asked how to build a bomb during a class on nuclear fission. When non-Muslim pupils asked the same question, no concerns were raised. Anderson said although he had not sought to verify the cases, the submission showed the resentment created by Prevent because of the number of people it focuses on, their age and its focus on non-violent views. Amina (not her real name), who is from east London and works in education, was horrified to be told her 12-year-old son was suspected of being vulnerable to radicalisation. “They were having a food studies lesson and the teacher had asked them to bring in chicken to cook,” she says. “At the time, there had been something on the news about halal slaughterhouses closing down. My son said he wouldn’t be able to get halal chicken and when the teacher asked why, he said: ‘It’s because the government hates Muslims.’” Amina was surprised by his words. “I told the teacher that I never expressed those kind of views; I don’t think the government are particularly against Muslims. I am very careful about what my children look at online. But sometimes children add two and two together and make five.” She agreed to talk to her son, and the teacher told Amina the matter had already been discussed in class. A week later, social services rang. “They told me it was because the incident had been forwarded to the police.” Amina’s son had been bullied at his primary school and some of the children responsible had transferred to the secondary school with him. He was so unhappy that Amina had already secured him a place at another school. Now his unhappiness was being taken as a sign he might be seduced by extremist views. “They said he was coming to class late because of going to the mosque, but he had just been waking up late because he didn’t want to go in.” Then, when she went on holiday abroad, leaving her two sons in the charge of her husband, the school went further. “My son was off sick, and when my husband told them he wouldn’t be in, they called his older brother’s school to check he was in school. They must have thought I had taken them off somewhere.” She says the experience has shaken her faith in the education system. “This has caused me a lot of stress. I feel I am being watched … You worry that they could take your children into care.” Similar examples of apparent overreaction are not hard to find. This week, it was revealed that the parents of a 14-year-old boy had started legal action after their son was questioned following a French lesson in May. The boy had been talking about “eco-terrorists”, something he says he had learned about at a debating society meeting. After the lesson, he was taken out of class and asked whether he was “affiliated” with Isis. His parents are seeking a judicial review, saying he was discriminated against because of his Muslim background. “He was presumed guilty because he was Muslim,” they said. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/23/prevent-counter-terrorism-strategy-schools-demonising-muslim-children

More likely to be your wife's cooking! "The incubation period of nontyphoidal salmonellosis is 6–72 hours, but illness usually occurs within 12–36 hours after exposure".

Best atmosphere for ages. People standing and jumping up and down in the Kingsland, not normally a hotbed of anarchy.

or put another way, 50 times more than your educated estimate

Its always amusing watching you insist you are right and Office of National Statistics is wrong. Please dont stop. [/img]

But net migration from the EU of non British nationals was only around 75,000. When you realise that much of the immigration is balanced by Brits going to live in the EU and then much of the 'EU immigration' is actually British expats returning home the figures look very different.

Unlikely. UK trade with the EU is over £500 billion pa so if joining the eurozone (which Im opposed btw) had an impact of only 5% on trade that would be £25bn pa.

Hi!

Thats spectacularly weak.