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Friday 25 March 2011

Verity Murphy | 15:09 UK time, Friday, 25 March 2011

On tonight's Newsnight with Stephanie Flanders:

We look at what the fresh unrest in Syria and Yemen and the ongoing conflict in Libya means for al-Qaeda and militant Islam, and what used to be called the war on terror, both in the short and long term.

Will militant Islam be side-lined by the broadly secular nature of many of the North African and Middle East protests or will events like the bombing of Libya be a radicalising element which presents an opportunity to Islamists?

Richard Watson will be reporting on this issue and in the studio we will be speaking to a senior ex-CIA adviser on al-Qaeda who knew Osama Bin Laden.

Ahead of tomorrow's trades union anti-cuts march we have a report the policing of activists and on the plans of some protesters with no connections to the TUC.

Plus Michael Crick will be reporting on why the rally could present a problem for Labour.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    "TOMORROW'S TRADES UNION ANTI CUTS MARCH"

    The 'wandering plural' - close relative of the grocer's apostrophe - has reached a climax of idiocy. Any chance we can get back to English syntax Beeb?

    Fire a few scenic embellishers and get yourselves a good semantic moderator.


  • Comment number 2.

    PHYSICALLY BRUTAL TYRANT v PSYCHOLOGICALLY BRUTAL IMPERIALIST

    Christian Britain found wanting:



    Scroll to sections 7 and 8 and weep for hypocritical Britain. But we don't condone torture – I hear.

    WE HAVE NO SHRED OF MORAL RIGHT TO 'CORRECT' JOHNNIE FOREIGNER.

  • Comment number 3.

    See the very thin light translucent layer over a dark that Rembrandt seems to have just done with casual ease, its called 'Turbid medium effect' . The thick viscous lead white pulled over dark to create the highlights this is called 'Scumbling' again it seems to be done with total ease but the accuracy is incredible and can be found in face, hands and top of sleeve on the left .



    -------------------------------

    How long before Japan is evacuated ? How long before we have a single currency with gold in the equation ?

    Wise old Rembrandt looks at us - total idiots and psycho's set on self destruction.

  • Comment number 4.

    I can't help speculating as to whether the ´óÏó´«Ã½ will probably attempt to portray that tomorrows TUC March is all about a call for alleged green growth. Its probably true to say that nothing could be further from the truth, in fact road fuel tax protesters are attending, many anti cuts protesters are climate skeptics. I suspect that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ will limit its coverage to the eco-fascist section, totally ignoring everybody else.

    It may even the case that some people actually welcome the cuts to some areas, for example a sigh of relief sounded from east Lancs when the Darwen to Accrington bus lane scheme was scrapped due to lack of funds. The thing is that they are still spending on green nonsense and I suppose that it could take at least two years before Huhnes Carbon Floor Price starts to seriously put people out of work. Then if the public have seen any common sense at all by that point they will be back marching for the repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act.

    I noticed a couple of MP's from steel constituencies expressing grave concerns about the new Carbon Floor Price and its impact on their industry. However, it would appear that there is but one lonely Peter Lilley opposing the whole ideology of the 2008 Climate Change Act. It would appear that a large number of MP's have sold out to the green quasi-religion, even jeering Lilley for daring to speak out against their Climate Scam. The fact that MP's elected Tim ( nice but dim ) Yeo as chair of the climate change committee ( with a list of financial conflicts of interest as long as your arm ) must imply that Westminster is still totally corrupt, if not even more so than it was in the expenses scandal ?

  • Comment number 5.

    will uk government forces shell 'the rebels'?

    in similar circumstances wellington moved the place of speech from Trafalgar square to Hyde Park. Which idiot moved it back again?

  • Comment number 6.

    Corporate Ethnic Cleansing ?

    /news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12845408

  • Comment number 7.

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  • Comment number 9.

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

    The former CIA Bin Laden unit chap had it about right.

  • Comment number 10.

    No 7 I do like Nigel Farage He does have a Handle on Things, He Gets My Vote .. If I Voted

  • Comment number 11.

    Tax AvoiDance You Talkin 2 Me .. I Dont do Tax its against My Human Rights.

    A Very Very Strange Idiot just got 27 yrs for Rapeing over 100 (convicted for 10)
    Old Age Pensioners, 27 yrs at 40 Grand Plus per year plus Police and Court Costs
    Thats at Least £1 Million probably over 2

    You Suckers can Feed, Clothe, House, Pay, that useless Article .. NOT ME THANX

    Do Yourself A Flavour Avoid Paying Tax Avoid Feeding Terrorists

  • Comment number 12.

    Dozy Head ed on the March .. That would be Left Left Left Left Left .. Trip

    Didnt SEE the UNIONS Protesting when blair n brown were Stealth Taxing And Spending Money we Didnt Have. That is Why The Nation is in The MESS its now in.

    Car Industry Struck Dead By Unions .. Dock Industry Struck Dead By Unions .. Coal Industry Struck Dead By Unions .. The MerChant Navy Struck Dead By 2 jags

    One Does Wonder Why There Is A Privates Sector

    I'm Allright Jack

  • Comment number 13.

    Can Somebody Please get over 2 Libya and Show The Rebs How 2 Use A Mortar

    I do Hope The Beeb Camera "personage" was Shooting from A Very Safe Distance .. YA?

  • Comment number 14.

    what do the present front bench know about 'hardship' ? Multi millionaires the lot of them, please do not insult my intelligence about those people belonging to the real world...

  • Comment number 15.

    SOFT CITADEL CIPHERS (#14)

    Hardship? The Crew of HMS Troutbridge knew more than this lot.

  • Comment number 16.

    more stephi. she moves NN to its proper level.

  • Comment number 17.

    Bob Chapman

    'What are we talking about'





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  • Comment number 19.

    APOCALYPSE NOW - THE MUSICAL! (#17 link)

    Is there NOTHING that can now be communicated WITHOUT artistic embellishment?

    If Jesus had rapped the Semon on the Mount, would it have had the same impact? Do the CIA add the distortion to the voices, and the musack on that clip, to mess with our heads?

    I suppose the Last Trump will be so bent through some electronic gizmo, few will recognise it. . .

  • Comment number 20.

    When I first listened to Americans blabbing out online like Alex Jones I found it repulsive in tone and with narcissism all over it, but you kinda get use to their paranoid desire to show off or be creepy . They see the upper middle class Brit speak in the same way.

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    testing

  • Comment number 23.

    :p Very quiet tonight! Have the regulars been arrested?

  • Comment number 24.

    All this user's posts have been removed.Why?

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