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NowNow inin OurOur 10th Suspect 31st31st Year!Year! Arrested In Soldier’s Vol. 31 No. 3 June 2013 Slaying Dambusters Remembered R Two Men Held Over Plane Threat Denied Bail A JUDGE has denied bail for two men who allegedly threatened to blow up a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain. UK residents Tayyab Subhani, 30, and Mohammed Safdar, 41, were ar- rested May 25 after their Pakistan Inter- national Airways flight was diverted to London’s Stansted Airport with a Royal Air Force fighter jet in tow. The pair appeared a few days later at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court in Lee Rigby eastern England charged with endanger- ing the operation of an aircraft. They By Sylvia Hui spoke only to confirm their names and addresses but their lawyers said they POLICE arrested a 10th suspect would deny the charge. May 28 in connection with the They are expected back in court on vicious street killing of a soldier August 5 to make a formal plea. in London, an apparent Islamic R Police Announce New Leads extremist attack that has horrified the country and heightened racial In Madeline McCann Case tensions. POLICE SAY they are investigating new The 50-year-old man was detained in leads in the case of Madeleine McCann, Welling, east of London, on suspicion of the Briton who disappeared six years ago conspiring to murder 25-year-old soldier in Portugal at the age of three. Lee Rigby, Scotland Yard said. Scotland Yard said it has identified The latest arrest came as more details several “persons of interest” and “both trickled out about the background of Mi- investigative and forensic opportuni- chael Adebolajo, 28, one of the two main ties” in the case. The force said last British suspects in the May 22 slaying. He month its work is under way to support and Michael Adebowale, 22, were shot and police in Portugal, even though they wounded by police at the scene. have closed their investigation into the Rigby, an off-duty soldier who had disappearance. served in Afghanistan, was run over by a McCann vanished from her family’s vehicle and repeatedly attacked with meat vacation home in Portugal’s Algarve cleavers near his barracks in London. region on May 3, 2007, days before her British officials say the two main sus- fourth birthday. The case has generated pects had been known to them for some intense media interest in Britain. time, but revelations that Adebolajo had British police launched Operation been arrested in Kenya in 2010 – and Grange in 2011, to try to solve the claims that British security officials had puzzle. tried to recruit him as an informer after Detective Chief Superintendent that – have fueled questions about whether Hamish Campbell said officers have UK authorities could have done more to been encouraged by the progress made prevent last week’s killing. so far. A ROYAL AIR FORCE Lancaster Bomber sweeps low over the Derwent Dam in England during the Battle of QUESTIONING One of two suspects in the slaying of Britain Memorial Flight, last month. The event commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Dams raid on R Police: Tiger Escaped Lee Rigby has been released from the Germany during WWII. The raid, led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, commenced on May 16 1943 when Pen To Attack Keeper hospital and taken to a police station for 19 RAF Lancaster Bombers of 617 Squadron launched an air assault using ‘bouncing bombs’ - destroying questioning. The suspect, whom a family WHEN zoo keeper Sarah McClay was friend identified as Michael Adebowale, the Mohne and the Eder dams, and damaging a third. As a result the Squadron has ever after been mauled to death by a Sumatran tiger at 22, will be questioned by officers from known as “The Dambusters”. (AP Photo / Rui Vieira) Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNQY9PckycY an animal park in England, its owner Scotland Yard’s counterterrorism com- alleged she had entered the animal’s pen mand, police said. He also has been against safety rules. arrested on suspicion of the attempted But police said last month that’s not murder of a police officer, police said, but Cameron’s Conservatives Suffer In UK Local Votes what happened. provided no details. After conducting an investigation, By Cassandra Vinograd voters appeared to punish the ruling gov- slashing public sector jobs and welfare Four other men and a suspect arrested police said the tiger escaped from its earlier remained in custody at a London DAVID CAMERON’S Conservatives ernment, fed up with economic doldrums payments. pen and attacked 24-year-old McClay took a drubbing in local elections amid and austerity measures. Britain’s national- The prime minister now finds himself police station, while one other man has May 25 as she was working in a staff been released on bail. Two women were a surge of support for an anti-European ist party appeared to be the recipient of a in the difficult position of trying to shore area at South Lakes Wild Animal Park Union and anti-immigration party, heaping sizeable protest vote against the political up right-wing backing ahead of the next released without charge in the case. in northwestern England. On May 26, a London-based rights pressure on the British prime minister to elite and the EU, analysts said. general election in 2015, while trying to She later died of her injuries at a appeal to the dissident right-wing of his According to returns May 3 from 34 maintain his own affinity for more left- hospital. Continued on page 4 own party. contests across England, the right-wing wing causes. Cumbria police said they are trying to Echoing results across Europe, British United Kingdom Independence Party, PROTEST or UKIP, won 139 county council seats, find out how and why the tiger escaped. Task Force Set Up while the mainstream opposition Labour The results are a mixture of typical The park owner claimed McClay Party gained 291. midterm protest and “rage against the broke the rules by entering the tiger’s machine,” said Tony Travers, director of pen for an unknown reason. To Target Radical Your Very Own DOWN the government department at the Lon- The Liberal Democrats – junior partners don School of Economics and Political R Scottish Cardinal To Atone Preachers YORKSHIRE in Britain’s coalition government – were Science. BRITAIN’S government is setting up a down 124 county council seats, while “It is a traditional midterm protest vote For Sexual Misconduct new terrorism task force to tackle radi- PASSPORT Cameron’s ruling Conservatives lost 335 and it’s found its lightning conductor THE VATICAN last month ordered cal preachers and extremism following DIRECT FROM THE ‘YORKSHIRE seats in the vote. through UKIP,” Travers said. “However, a disgraced Scottish cardinal to leave the brutal killing of British soldier Lee EMBASSY’ SANCTIONED BY: UKIP leader Nigel Farage – whose party there is a more generalized protest that Scotland for several months to pray and Rigby. The Independent State of Yorkshire Cameron once referred to as a bunch of isn’t just against this government in its atone for sexual misconduct, issuing a The group will look at whether new and Colonies “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” – midterm, but is also a protest against rare public sanction against a “prince of powers and laws are needed to clamp said the results will send a “shock wave” mainstream elite politics.” the church” and the first such punish- down on religious leaders who promote "It's reet gud, lad!"– through the British political establishment. He suggested UKIP’s appeal – and the ment meted out by Pope Francis. extremist messages and who target "So cum on, don't be gormless" “This is a real sea-change in British local election results – bear echoes of the Cardinal Keith O’Brien resigned potential recruits in jails, schools and politics,” Farage told the BBC. Tea Party movement in the US, complete as archbishop of St Andrews and Ed- mosques. –IT'S EXACTLY LIKE NOWT ELSE– Cameron’s popularity has taken a beat- with cries of “we need to get our country inburgh and recused himself from the The force will include senior minis- •Citizen page/form •All notes in Yorkshire ing as the government sticks to a strict back.” March conclave that elected Francis ters, London’s police chief and the head language •Idioms •Yorkshire to policy of austerity to cut Britain’s debts, “This is a vote against ‘they’re all the pope after a newspaper reported un- of the MI5 domestic security service. English translations •Visas same.”’ named priests’ allegations that he acted Sunday’s announcement came less •Yorkshire anthem While last month’s results will jeop- inappropriately toward them. than a week after 25-year-old British $ 50plus •Yorkshire motto O’Brien subsequently acknowl- 9 $1.25 s&h £1 = ardize the Conservative Party’s success soldier Lee Rigby was run over and CA RESIDENTS •History of Yorkshire in the 2015 general election, Travers was edged he had engaged in unspecified ADD 90¢ TAX stabbed to death in a London street. language & literature $1.51 skeptical the local elections would steer sexual misbehavior. He apologized and Hard-line Muslim leaders have identi- •Yorkshire prayer •Sporting Cameron further to the right. promised to stay out of the church’s fied one of the two suspects as Michael affiliations •Notes for the gormless uro = public life. Adebolajo, an Islam convert who •Comes in Yorkshire embassy envelope Last month, the Vatican said O’Brien, allegedly used to take part in events LIKE US! once Britain’s highest-ranking Catholic To order: (800) 262-7305 $1.29 organized by British radical group al- www.ujnews.com at press time unionjacknewspaper Continued on page 4 Muhajiroun.