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01 January 2008

National security in the twenty-first century, Charlie Edwards. Demos December 2007, pp. 120. This report expresses growing concern that the government is becoming too focused on international terrorism, to the detriment of other threats and hazards in the UK.

The Guantanamo Airlift: how Europe helped transport the prisoners, Stephen Grey. Stephen Grey website 2007. (http://www.stephengrey.com/2007/11/guantanamo-airlift-how-europe-helped.html). Grey is the author of the book Ghost Plane, on the US practice of illegally trafficking and torturing their political opponents, and he has played an important role in exposing the hypocrisy of European governments in their collusion with this neconservative policy. Here Grey discusses how at least five European countries gave the United States permission to fly nearly 700 unconvicted people across their territories.