Algerian seige - Canadian Islamists among terrorists?

Daily Telegraph:

Reports in Algeria suggested that two of the 30 kidnappers were Canadian nationals. Survivors of the siege also claimed that one of the terrorists has a "North American accent".
 
A spokesman for Canada's ... DFAIT confirmed to The Daily Telegraph that representatives from the department had been in touch with the Algerian authorities to try to establish whether Canadians were among the terrorists. ...

Reuters:

An Algerian security source had earlier told Reuters that documents found on the bodies of two militants had identified them as Canadians: "A Canadian was among the militants. He was coordinating the attack," [Algerian PM] Sellal said, ... That Canadian's name was given only as Chedad.

Meanwhile:

David Cameron criticised the BBC for describing the perpetrators of the Algeria hostage attack as “militants” instead of condemning them as “terrorists”. ...

Predictably, the CBC is similarly inclined to use weasel words, unlike the National Post.
 

"The world" wants Obama re-elected

How the world would vote in the U.S. election.

... Obama is preferred over Mitt Romney in 31 out of 32 countries in the UPI poll and 20 out of 21 countries in another BBC World Service/GlobeScan/PIPA survey. Fifty-one percent of respondents in the UPI poll said they would cast a ballot for Obama ...      

... There is really only one red (foreign) state in this election, and it's Israel. In a poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University last week, 52 percent of Israelis said a Romney win would be preferable for Israeli interests, compared with 25 percent who said the same about Obama. The divide was starker among Jewish Israelis, who backed Romney by a 57-22 margin, with support for the GOP candidate strongest among right-wingers. A plurality of Arab Israelis, by contrast, favored Obama (45 percent) over Romney (15 percent). ...

Note that Canada, Britain and Australia are solid blue Obama groupies. 
Peter Foster:

Polls that claim that a thumping majority of Canadians would vote for President Obama in today’s reportedly knife-edge U.S. election suggest either a badly broken polling process, or that the locals have taken leave of their senses....

With Obama as the Dem candidate, I think the latter is most likely.

ClimateGate: An exceptional interview on the BBC

Here's the BBC's Andrew Neil in a hard hitting interview with former IPCC chair Robert Watson (now Chief Scientist for the UK Dept of Environment):
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Now that interview must be the exception that proves the rule on the MSM's uselessness in covering climate change. Could we expect to see anything like it on the CBC, or any Canadian network for that matter?

Here's some background on Robert Watson who was given the boot from the IPCC in 2002.

Video on BBC site.

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BBC’s AGW alarmism

Ex-BBC science man slams corp: 'Evangelical, shallow and sparse'
Nonstop Thermageddon coverage risks ridicule

Award-winning author and journalist David Whitehouse says the corporation risks public ridicule - or worse - with what he calls "an evangelical, inconsistent climate change reporting and its narrow, shallow and sparse reporting on other scientific issues."

Listen up CBC, CTV, CNN, ...........!

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