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...Pentagon to shift some of the work to Sikorsky Aircraft. That Connecticut firm built every presidential helicopter since President Eisenhower was the first to regularly fly in one, until the tradition was broken by the 2005 award to Lockheed Martin and its European partners, Italy's Augusta and Britain's Westland...
...clunky syntax and odd phrasing provided strong clues that the usually eloquent pol (currently both Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice) wasn't quite himself. This didn't stop a number of recipients from ringing Straw's office to ask if his predicament had been solved. Their calls were met with bafflement. Straw has not recently visited Lagos. Moreover, says his special adviser via text message, when he last did so "to the best of my knowledge he never lost his wallet!" (See a story about the Alicia Keys MySpace phishing controversy...
...commission predicts the E.U. economy will shrink 1.8% in 2009. That's going to make borrowing crucial. Ireland's budget deficit is projected to rise to 13% of GDP by 2010; Britain's could hit 9.6%. France and Germany are both expected to blast through the 3% ceiling. The region's debt figures are just as dire. (See pictures of the financial crisis hitting London...
...British Foreign Office" who worked for his release, but the British government has not escaped the case with its reputation untarnished. Evidence submitted to the British courts to support the case for the release of the classified material alleges complicity by British intelligence in Mohamed's torture. Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has ordered an investigation to be conducted by Britain's attorney general. Human rights organization Amnesty International is pushing for an independent inquiry...
That impression was given traction by the revelation that a U.S. official had written a letter to the British courts at the request of the Foreign Office warning of the risks for future intelligence sharing between Britain and the U.S. if London released U.S. classified material. Some press reports interpreted this as evidence of collusion to withhold the requested material. But a senior Foreign Office official says the British government had urged counterparts in America to provide the information requested by Mohamed's legal team. "We were saying to the Americans we think you should disclose this material to Mohamed...