A British Airways worker has been jailed for 30 years for plotting with a senior al-Qaeda planner to smuggle a bomb onto a trans-Atlantic aircraft.
Another terrorist family. Our lad joined Jamaat al-Muslimeen while at school in Britain, then connected with the Bangladeshi branch. His brother joined al Qaeda, then went to Yemen. There he he put his brother in touch with Anwar al-Awlaki, who has encouraged so many terror attacks in the last few years. So this also could be thought of as another al-Awlaki project... Thank goodness the police were paying attention!
Controversial plans to ask state workers sensitive questions about their sexuality and religious beliefs are likely to be scrapped.
Just two months after setting out the requirement for 27,000 public sector bodies to carry out detailed "diversity audits" of their staff, the Government has signalled an about-turn.
Now they can afford that No Fly Zone over Libya.
Observe, President Obama: this is how a government makes budget decisions.
A "policy review paper" says the burden of red tape will be reduced and revised draft guidelines make no reference to private information about employees being collected or published.
The rules came about as a result of Labour's far-reaching Equality Act, which also allows employers to reject male job applicants in favour of women who are no better qualified, and bans questions about health at interviews.
Under the public sector Equality Duty, spelled out in official documents in January, state bodies with more than 150 members of staff were required to disclose how diverse their workforces are.
It was expected that accurate data would be obtained through "routine monitoring" on "the race, disability, gender and age distribution of your workforce; an indication of likely representation on sexual orientation and religion and belief,
"George looks gay, and Sarah is either Jewish or Muslim -- she sounds Geordie, which doesn't indicate... But Yusuf definitely needs that wheelchair, so we'll put him down for 'disabled'. We need at least one tick in that box."
provided that no-one can be identified as a result; an indication of any issues for transsexual staff, based on your engagement with transsexual staff or voluntary groups; gender pay gap information; grievance and dismissal".
The Government's own consultation documents admitted that equality officers at large public bodies would have to spend eight days a year working on the data, with the help of a statistician, and in total the equality requirements could cost up to £29.8million every year.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
