Terror hitlist named 25 Muslim soldiers
Headlines theTimes
Defence chiefs have launched an urgent investigation into how a gang of suspected Islamic terrorists obtained a list of names and addresses for 25 serving British Muslim soldiers as part of an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a serviceman. Senior officers are alarmed that the hitlist includes home addresses as far apart as Glasgow and the West Country. A priority will be to ensure that no Ministry of Defence “mole” provided the suspected terror cell with such top-secret personal information.
The Mirror choosing to lead with the same story
TWENTY TARGETS
Personal dossiers on soldiers – including addresses, car numbers and places of work – are believed to have been found by police who arrested nine men on Wednesday.
The “targets” were told a month ago to step up security. A lance corporal in his 20s, believed to have been the most likely victim, is in protective custody.
Last night it was claimed that two soldiers targeted by the
alleged terror gang had agreed to act as “bait” after being told they were at risk of being kidnapped.
THE Prime Minister was questioned by cops over e-mails allegedly sent by Lord Levy about the cash-for-honours inquiry, it emerged yesterday.
Tony Blair was secretly interviewed for a second time last Friday at Downing Street.
The Metropolitan Police investigation team specifically asked the PM if he had any knowledge of alleged e-mails between his chief fundraiser Lord Levy and close personal aide Ruth Turner.
The Guardian reports
Blair quizzed again as cash for honours consumes Labour
Detectives investigating the cash for honours affair demanded that the prime minister maintain total secrecy over their decision to conduct a second interview with him to see if they could expose Lord Levy, Labour's chief fundraiser, giving misleading or contradictory evidence.
Mr Blair was interviewed as a witness for 45 minutes last Friday, four days before Lord Levy was arrested and questioned on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. No 10 only revealed yesterday that Mr Blair had also been seen again, 24 hours after police gave it clearance to do so.
The Independent reports that
Yesterday's dramatic announcement increased the pressure on Mr Blair to quit "sooner rather than later" amid concern that the cash-for-honours affair has made it difficult for him to focus on other issues in his final months in No 10. The Prime Minister remains determined to stay on until this summer, so a decision on whether to bring prosecutions may not be taken until after he quits.
The Mirror links the story to its attack on the Home Secretary calling him
THE EXPLOITER
JOHN Reid was accused of exploiting terror fears after he proposed letting police hold suspects without charge for 70 days yesterday.
The embattled Home Secretary told the Cabinet the scale of the threat meant there should be a huge increase in the 28-day limit.
His plea came after nine men were arrested over an alleged plot to capture and kill a British soldier.
Withn the report on climate change to be published today the Indy leads with
All pupils to be given lessons in climate change
The plans, to be published on Monday, will ensure that, for the first time, issues such as climate change and global warming are at the heart of the school timetable. Pupils will also be taught to understand their responsibilities as consumers - and weigh up whether they should avoid travel by air to reduce CO2 emissions and shun food produce imported from the other side of the world because of its impact on pollution.
The Telegraph meanwhile says
Man's guilt for global warming clear
The 2,500 scientists from 130 countries who make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said they were now more than 90 per cent certain global warming is happening because of people, as opposed to natural variation.
The Guardian on the same topic reports
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The Daily Mail has as its front page
The women sentenced to die by arrogance
One woman has died and two more are unlikely to survive after one of Britain's worst breast cancer screening blunders, it has emerged.
They were among 18 patients wrongly given the all-clear by "arrogant" consultant radiologist Dr Amjad Husien.
His mistakes meant they faced a potentially fatal delay in treatment of up to two years. Some went on to have their breasts removed in surgery which may not have been necessary had they been diagnosed earlier.
The Independent reporting the same story says
The revelation emerged as the NHS North West published a report into the scandal yesterday. Report author Professor Mark Baker blamed Mr Husien, named as "Dr A" in the report, for the errors, adding his failure was "compounded by systematic weaknesses in Trafford NHS Trust".
The Guardian reports on problems for President Chirac
Nuclear-armed Iran would not be very dangerous, says Chirac
Who
sparked a diplomatic controversy after saying that a nuclear-armed Iran would not be "very dangerous" and Tehran would be "razed" if it launched a nuclear strike on Israel. He later issued a humiliating retraction.
The French president's comments to journalists prompted speculation as to whether, aged 74 and in the waning months of his second - and probably his last term - he was losing his political touch or even his mental vigour. Some also questioned whether Mr Chirac had simply voiced a fear that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a foregone conclusion.
The Telegraph reports the comments of the Russian President
Arms race fears as Putin attacks missiles plan
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, prompted fears of a renewed arms race yesterday after he described American plans to move missiles into eastern Europe as an act of aggression against Moscow.
In comments echoing the rhetoric of an earlier age, Mr Putin said that Russia would develop a new generation of inter-continental missiles capable of breaching the defensive shield Washington plans to build in Poland and the Czech republic.
Back to Uk matters and the Express devotes its front page to another of its crusades
LET'S KILL OFF HATED DEATH TAX
TODAY the Daily Express is asking YOU to take the crusade against inheritance tax to the very heart of Tony Blair’s Government.This newspaper is launching an internet petition on 10 Downing Street’s official website, demanding the immediate abolition of death duties.And we are calling on our army of readers to add their names to the petition to ensure that the Prime Minister and Chancellor Gordon Brown cannot ignore the heart-felt rage about the iniquity of this grave robbery of millions of families.
The Mail stays with the subject of a tax after the increase in air duties
Brown faces legal challenge over air passenger 'stealth tax'
The Chancellor's doubling of air passenger duty was introduced across the country yesterday and immediately met with anger, irritation and protests at check-in desks.
The legal threat to the so-called "poll tax of the skies" came as a wide spectrum of critics labelled it a "money-grabbing exercise" and "a stealth tax in green camouflage".
The Sun returns to the Big Brother theme
Seven BB stars in cop quiz
MODEL Danielle Lloyd was quizzed by cops last night — the first of SEVEN housemates to be questioned over the Celebrity Big Brother race row.
The former Miss GB spent more than an hour with police — as a witness — at London solicitors Schillings.
Police sources revealed others in the unlikely line-up are Jade Goody, Jo O’Meara, Jade’s mum Jackiey Budden, Dirk Benedict and Jermaine Jackson — for his comment about “white trash”.
Winner Shilpa Shetty could also be interviewed over insults directed at her.
The Times reveals
Red alert on olive leaves after rumour over health
Roll over, retsina: the Greeks are going crazy for a new drink, olive-leaf juice. It has been ignored as a potential nutrient for 3,000 years, but a brief television reference that suggested it may lower cholesterol and reduce cancers in laboratory mice has made it as sought- after as the tree’s fruit.
The craze has led to one death and yesterday the Health Ministry called for calm, urging chat shows to stop parading purported “healers” talking up the benefits of the leaves.
Finally the Independent reports of a publicity stunt that went wrong
Artists face jail after cartoon stunt sparks US terror alert
Two artists from Boston found themselves in court yesterday facing the possibility of a prison sentence after signs they had placed around the city to advertise a late-night animated show triggered a traffic-snarling terror scare.
Boston police closed major commuter arteries, underground stations and even a section of the Charles River on Wednesday after receiving phone calls from concerned citizens who had spotted the devices and apparently mistaken them for bombs. The scare crippled parts of downtown Boston.
The Cartoon Network, owned by Turner Broadcasting, later acknowledged that it had contracted with a publicity company, Interference Inc, to distribute the foot-tall, magnetic signs around Boston and nine other cities, including New York and Chicago.
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