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Holy completely random knife attack, Batman!

A man has been charged following a double knife attack on two Orthodox Jews in Golders Green.

Mohamed Jama Ahmed, 37, of North Circular Road, Cricklewood, was arrested after two stabbings which happened just meters apart in roads off Golders Green Road on Friday.

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said the attacks, which happened at around 6pm, appear to have been random and unprovoked, but were not being treated as faith hate crimes.

Officers were alerted to a 47-year-old man in The Drive who was suffering from stab wounds to his arm and chest.

While at the scene, police were informed that a 43-year-old man had been stabbed in nearby Beverley Gardens.

Both victims were taken to hospital and are said to be in a stable condition.
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Ahmed was arrested on Sunday and charged with two counts of assault involving grievous bodily harm.

He is due to appear at Hendon Magistrates Court today.

In other random attack news, palestinian terrorists just happened to fire least 10 Qassam rockets and 3 mortar shells at the western Negev.

Brian of London adds: Let’s get this straight. A random man, with a random knife, randomly stabs a couple of random Jews in London’s best known Jewish neighbourhood.

I disagree with designating anything as a hate crime: a crime is a crime. But as we have these laws, how on earth can the Police jump to the conclusion that this particular random man just happened to stab not one, but two overtly Jewish men. Randomly.

If you follow Shire Network News you’ll know I’m in the process of moving from the UK to the US. Anyone else want to ask me why?

The Sun reports on a Muslim bus driver who told his passengers to get off.

Literally.

A Muslim bus driver told stunned passengers to get off so he could pray.

The white Islamic convert rolled out his prayer mat in the aisle and knelt on the floor facing Mecca.

Passengers watched in amazement as he held out his palms towards the sky, bowed his head and began to chant.

One, who filmed the man on his mobile phone, said: “He was clearly praying and chanting in Arabic.

“We thought it was a wind-up at first, like Jeremy Beadle.”

The 21-year-old plumber added: “He looked English and had a London accent. He looked like a Muslim convert, with a big, bushy beard.

“Eventually everyone started complaining. One woman said, ‘What the hell are you doing? I’m going to be late for work’.”

After a few minutes the driver calmly got up, opened the doors and asked everyone back on board.

But they saw a rucksack lying on the floor of the red single-decker and feared he might be a fanatic. So they all refused.

The passenger added: “One chap said, ‘I’m not getting on there now’.

“An elderly couple also looked really confused and worried.

“After seeing that no-one wanted to get on he drove off and we all waited until the next bus came about 20 minutes later. I was left totally stunned. It made me not want to get on a bus again.”

The bizarre event unfolded on the number 81 in Langley, Berkshire, at around 1.30pm on Thursday.

The passenger said he rang the bus firm to complain but claimed it did not believe him.

He said: “They asked me, ‘Are you sure?’. Then they said they would get back to me, but they weren’t taking me seriously at all.”

Yesterday the driver, who said his name was Hrun, told The Sun: “I asked everyone to get off because I needed to pray. I was running late and had not had time.

“I pray five times a day as a Muslim — but I don’t normally ask people to get off the bus to do it.”

Where does he get off doing this?

I guess he mistook himself for a taxi driver.

Update: In case you are wondering, this report is from March 29th, so it is not an April Fool’s joke as far as I can tell.

I’m not sure what is going on in England, but surely there’s something dodgy about their drinking water.

How else can you explain a number of unbelievable statements emanating from subjects of the Queen.

Take former British Prime Minister-cum-Quartet’s Mideast Envoy Tony Blair, who says the palestinians are starting to carry out their part in the “road map” peace plan.

The Quartet’s Middle East envoy Tony Blair said Thursday that Palestinian security forces had significantly improved and were starting to carry out their part in the long-stalled “road map” peace plan.

The former British prime minister, now the envoy for the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators which include the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations, urged Israel to respond by easing travel and trade restrictions imposed on the Palestinians in the West Bank.

The U.S. government will assess and judge whether Israel and the Palestinians are meeting their obligations under the 2003 road map as part of a push for a Palestinian statehood agreement before U.S. President George W. Bush leaves office next January.

Statehood could hinge on those assessments because Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed not to implement any future peace agreements until Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets his road map obligation to crack down on militants.

“I think it is important to recognize that what has happened here in Nablus over these past few months is, of course, precisely what phase one of the ‘road map’ asks for,” Blair said during a visit to the West Bank city.

Earlier Thursday, during a visit south of Ramallah, he said: “The Palestinian side has improved significantly their security capability.”

The only kind of road map the palestinians are following is the kind that helps them get to Israeli cities - like Dimona - for terrorist attacks.

I do agree with Blair on one point, though. The palestinian side has improved significantly their security capability.

Then we have the Archbishop of Canterbury, who says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK seems unavoidable.

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable.”

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.

For example, Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a Sharia court.

He says Muslims should not have to choose between “the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty.”

A few days ago, I posted the tragic tale of a Muslim woman who’s family invited men to the family home to rape her.

Today, I post this tragic tale of a Muslim woman whose family did nothing while her husband battered her to death.

A family who stood by as a husband systematically battered to death his young bride through an arranged marriage have been found guilty of failing to help her in the weeks before she died.

Sabia Rani, 19, suffered horrendous injuries at the hands of new husband Shazad Khan, 25, but her plight was ignored by his other relatives who shared their home in Leeds.

Khan was convicted for the teenager’s murder a year ago after she was discovered with bruising to 90 per cent of her body and up to 15 broken ribs.

Khan’s mother Phullan Bibi, 52, his two sisters Uzma Khan, 23, and 28-year-old Nazia Naureen, and Naureen’s husband Majid Hussain, also 28, lived with the couple in Oakwood Grange, Roundhay.

Leeds Crown Court was told during their three-week trial for allowing the death of a vulnerable adult that they had tried to blame her injuries on evil spirits and curses.

It took the jury nine hours of deliberation to come back with four unanimous guilty verdicts.

As they were read out in court, the group screamed and thumped the dock. Khan’s sisters started wailing and hugging each other before screaming: “Not guilty, not guilty.”

His mother stood up and started crying and had to be restrained by officers after repeatedly banging both hands down on the dock.

Ms Rani only arrived in England five months before her death. She had been brought up in rural Pakistan and did not speak English.

The jury was told she had not been allowed out of the house she shared with her husband and his family without a chaperone.

They also heard that the teenager would have been in severe pain and very ill in the weeks up to her death in May 2006.

After her death, pathologist Christopher Milroy described her injuries as being similar to those suffered by someone in a serious road accident.

Prosecutor Simon Myerson QC said the defendants tried to blame them on evil spirits and curses.

Mr Myerson told the court that each defendant must have known Ms Rani was in pain and that Khan was the cause of it.

Professor Archibald Malcolm, a leading expert on bone fractures, who gave evidence during the trial, attributed the injuries her ribs to “hard kicks, stamps or very hard punches”.

The pathologist deduced there were three “episodes” of fracturing, one around three weeks before her dath, one about two weeks before and the other around 12 hours of less.

At the time of Khan’s murder conviction last year, West Yorkshire Police had already taken the first steps towards charging the family members.

After today’s verdicts, the Crown Prosecution Service revealed that the defendants were some of the first people in the country to be convicted of allowing the death of a vulnerable adult.

Malcolm Taylor, of CPS West Yorkshire’s Complex Casework Unit, said: “Sabia Rani was the victim of horrific violence at the hands of her husband whilst her family, as the jury found, chose to do nothing to help her.

“This is the first case in West Yorkshire and one of the very first cases in the whole of England and Wales where the provisions of the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004 have been used after the death of a ‘vulnerable adult’.”

He added: “The message must be that if families or other people with a duty to look after those who need protection deliberately choose not to do so, their neglect will not be ignored by the law enforcement agencies, and prosecution will follow.”

By the way, notice how both of these stories took place in England.

I hope the English are paying attention, because this might just be a prelude to their future.

AFP reports:

Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth.

And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale did not actually exist.

Three percent thought Charles Dickens, one of Britain’s most famous writers, is a work of fiction himself.

Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi and Battle of Waterloo victor the Duke of Wellington also appeared in the top 10 of people thought to be myths.

Meanwhile, 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Holmes actually existed; 33 percent thought the same of W. E. Johns’ fictional pilot and adventurer Biggles.

Of course I didn’t need these poll results to know Britons are losing their grip on reality.

At the risk of sounding redundant, meet the London dentist who was also a terrorist.

London dentist Sohail Qureshi told the police he was just off to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid with his family in Pakistan…

But instead of dental floss and fluoride, Qureshi, 30, tried to board a plane at Heathrow Airport with $18,000 in cash, a night vision scope, two metal batons, terror handbooks, extremist material, military information on CDs and medical supplies.

Security services didn’t buy Qureshi’s vacation story and ended his trip before it could start.

Describing his “vacation” in an e-mail, Qureshi wrote, “Pray that I kill many, brother. Revenge, revenge, revenge.” On an extremist Web forum, he added, “I am not going for good as far as I know, it is only a 14- to 20-day operation, if it’s in Pak, Afg or Waz.”

The Islamic extremist was in fact on his way to fight for the Taliban against American and British troops.

In court, he boasted he had been sent to the U.K. by Al Qaeda for terrorist fundraising. He posted a farewell letter anonymously on an Islamist website bragging about raising thousands of pounds from sympathizers in the U.K. for the cause because “bullets cost money.”

“The Dentist” set off on his “vacation” with keepsake snapshots of himself holding an M-16 rifle and an AK-47, both thought to be have been taken in Pakistan when he attended a terrorist training camp. Scotland Yard released e-mails revealing that “The Dentist” had trained at an Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan in 1996 and was the “emir” of another camp in 1998.

In my Dec. 31, 2007 column, the concern was raised that Samina Malik, the so-called “Lyrical Terrorist,” was a perfectly placed terror insider at one of the world’s largest airports. She wrote poems about beheadings, poison bullets and martyrdom, posting them to “attract men.” As it turns out, Qureshi may have been one of her suitors.

Police had the dentist under surveillance when he contacted Malik to ask about security at the airport. Recent testimony revealed that the dangerous duo was in e-mail contact.

Just before his arrest, Qureshi asked Malik, “What is the system like at work? Is the checking still very harsh or have things calmed down a bit?”

Work for the “Lyrical Terrorist” was a magazine shop on the flight side of Heathrow airport. As Qureshi’s airport insider, Malik received a suspended jail sentence in November.

Evidently, “The Dentist” fancied himself an extremist scribe as well. During his arrest, cops found a chapter from an autobiographical book he had written called “My Father the Bombmaker,” as well as some “motivational Islamist material” stored on a CD.

Arrested in October 2006, he has become the first person to be convicted under tough new U.K. anti-terror laws and was given 4-and-a-half years.

He could, however, be out of jail within a year, free to concoct further family “vacations.”

What is it with British dentists?

The Jerusalem Post reports on a worrying - but hardly surprising - trend in England.

The name Mohammed is expected to become the most popular name in England and Wales by 2008, the Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday.

The name, according to the report, was second only to Jack in 2007, which has been top for the last 13 years. 6,772 boys were called Jack and 6,387 were called Mohammed or a variant.

“High birth rate among Muslim families” is the reason cited by the report for how Mohammed will be the most popular boy’s name by next year.

Although Mohammed was ranked 17th, the name’s position would be numbered second if all 14 variant spellings of the name were taken into account.

The Telegraph found that of the 3,009 babies called Mohammed, the most popular spelling was Muhammad (1,595), followed by 903 Mohammads, 429 Muhammeds, 349 Mohameds, 39 Mohamads, 12 Muhameds, 11 Mohammods, nine Mohmmeds, eight Mohamuds, seven Mahammeds, six Muhammeets, five Mohmmads and five Muhammods.

Muhammad Anwar (heh - Aussie Dave), professor of ethnic relations at Warwick University, was quoted by the newspaper as saying: “Muslim parents like to have something that shows a link with their religion or with the Prophet.”

Except teddy bears, I guess.

Now don’t get me wrong; I have nothing against a growing Muslim population per se. It’s just that when you factor in the proportion of the growing Muslim population which is acting to reduce the non-Muslim population, there’s real cause for concern.

Update: The Jerusalem Post story includes this picture and caption:

In case you thought the Post had gone to the trouble of finding 4 babies named Mohammed/ Mohammad/ Muhammed/ Mohamed/ Mohamad/ Muhamed/ Mohammod/ Mohmmed/ Mohamud/ Mahammed/ Muhammeet/ Mohmmad/ Muhammod, and lined them up for a photograph.

While one imprisoned al-Qaeda terrorist could very well have water poured over his head, another has gone one better.

A prisoner has been accused of throwing boiling oil over an al Qaeda terrorist who planned to murder thousands with dirty bombs.

The 22-year-old inmate is accused of scarring for life Dhiren Barot, who was jailed for life for leading a British-based terrorist cell that plotted bombings across the world.

Barot’s lawyer claimed he had the boiling oil thrown over him during the attack in the high security Frankland Prison in County Durham.

The unnamed prisoner faces charges of wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the incident on July 6.

He will appear in court later this month.

You may recall the tale of Jane Felix-Browne, the 51-year-old, 6-times-married grandmother who fell in love with the 27-year-old son of Osama bin Laden, and became one of his two wives.

At the time, she said “I hope people don’t judge me too harshly.”

Well, the marriage hasn’t fared too well, thanks to those who are not only wanting to judge, but also to be the jury and executioner.

A British woman who married a son of the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, is to divorce because of fears she and her husband will be killed, a report said Wednesday.

“We are both in fear of our lives,” Jane Felix-Browne told The Sun. “People are opposed to my marriage because I am British. I wasn’t prepared to see the man I love die.

“That is why we have decided to end our marriage.”

Felix-Browne, 51, who lives near Manchester has attracted considerable media attention when news of her marriage to Omar Ossama bin Laden, 27, was made public in July this year.

She was quoted as saying by the newspaper that Omar, a scrap metal dealer who said he has not been in contact with his father since 2000, received threats in a call to his mobile phone last week.

“Omar knew who it was on the phone but he wouldn’t tell me. After the call he said he felt both our lives were in jeopardy,” said the five-times married municipal councillor, who uses the Islamic name Zaina Mohamad.

The wealthy bin Laden family were also said to be concerned by the implications of him being married to a British woman and the loss of business through their global network of contacts, she added.

The fourth-eldest son of the spiritual head of Al-Qaeda, who met his bride while horse riding at Egypt’s pyramids in April last year, was quoted as saying: “This marriage is now over.

“I don’t want a divorce but there are serious reasons for this break-up that I can’t talk about. I adore being with this woman. But we can’t stand up when the waves from the sea are coming to wipe us out.”

And The Most Appropriately Named Muslim Dentist award goes to this man.

A muslim dentist made a woman wear Islamic dress as the price of accepting her as an NHS patient, it is alleged.

Omer Butt is said to have told the patient that unless she wore a headscarf she would have to find another practice.

Later this month, Mr Butt will appear before a General Dental Council professional misconduct hearing, which has the power to strike him off.

It is claimed that the 31-year-old dentist asked to speak to the woman in private after she turned up for an appointment at his clinic in Bury.

According to the charges, he questioned her on whether she was a Muslim and told her that if he was to treat her she would have to wear Islamic dress.

He is also said to have read out a number of religious rules to her.

He then told his nurse to give the patient her own headscarf to wear, the accusation says.

It is not known whether the woman was a Muslim.

The charges to be heard by the General Dental Council say that Mr Butt undermined public confidence in his profession by discriminating against a patient and failed to act in her best interests.

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The headscarf incident is alleged to have happened in 2005, at a time when between 4,000 and 8,000 people in Bury were unable to find an NHS dentist.

According to the charges, Mr Butt “asked to speak to Patient A in private.

“In the course of conversation with Patient A you: (a) asked whether she was Muslim; (b) told her words to the effect that, in order to receive treatment from you, she needed to wear appropriate Islamic dress; (c) quoted to her parts of the Ahadith.”

The Ahadith is a series of instructions on behaviour attributed to Prophet Mohammed but not written as part of the Koran.

The charge continues: “You told Patient A that, if she did not wear a headscarf, she would need to register with another dentist. You instructed your dental nurse to give Patient A her headscarf.

“The dental nurse took Patient A to another room where she was given the nurse’s headscarf to wear.

“In seeking to impose an Islamic dress code on Patient A in order for treatment to be provided you undermined public confidence in the profession by discriminating against Patient A.”

If the charges are upheld, the Porsche- driving dentist will be found guilty of serious professional misconduct.

Penalties can range from a public warning to suspension and being struck off.

Tory MP Sir Paul Beresford, a former minister and a dentist, said: “When a patient comes to see me I have no concern with their religion. I do not ask Muslim patients to read the Bible.

“My practice tries to respect religious belief. For example, during Ramadan we try to help Muslim patients by making sure they do not have to swallow water when they are fasting. We do not ask patients to become Christians.”

Women staff at Mr Butt’s Bury practice do not routinely wear headscarves while at work.

One female patient said: “I think it is a pretty outrageous thing to ask but I have never felt as if I am being discriminated against at this practice as a Western woman.

“If I was then I would certainly make a full complaint. If it is true then it shows a reverse prejudice bordering on racism.”

Needless to say, the apple a**hole didn’t fall far from the tree.

Mr Butt is the older brother of former Islamic extremist Hassan Butt, who once declared he had ‘no problem’ with terror attacks on Britain and who said that September 11 “served the pleasure of Allah”.

(Although it should be noted that Butt Jr. has ostensibly forsaken his old ways).

By the way, this isn’t the only time he’s been a butt:

The dentist also featured in immigration hearings involving an asylum seeker suspected of providing a safe house for Kamel Bourgass (another appropriate name - Aussie Dave), an Algerian terrorist jailed for life for stabbing PC Stephen Oake to death in Manchester in 2003.

Mr Butt, the immigration hearing was told, was introduced by his brother to the asylum seeker, who at various points claimed three different identities.

The tribunal was told that Mr Butt was “a respectable and responsible person who wishes to help devout and practising Muslims in difficulty”.

He “did not regard the use of false names as unusual for asylum seekers”.

Mr Butt was involved in another controversial incident earlier this year when police stopped his Porsche 911 and said they could not read its customised number plate.

The dentist recorded the subsequent search of the car on his mobile phone and passed the video to the BBC, which broadcast it on a local news bulletin. It shows Mr Butt asking an officer: “Are you a racist?”

The dentist was then arrested for racially aggravated behaviour. There were no charges, and a complaint against the police by Mr Butt is still being considered.

Mr Butt was unavailable for comment yesterday. Staff at his practice said he was on holiday.

Just what the English need - more barriers against decent dental care. It’s bad enough that their dentists are already pissing in sinks.

Here’s the feel-good story of the day, courtesy of LGF:

Hate preacher Abu Hamza has complained of the tough conditions behind bars, it was revealed yesterday.

The cleric, serving seven years for inciting murder of non-Muslims, says he is the victim of a prison bullying campaign.

And he has even complained about the lack of soft furnishings in his cell.

An Islamic group has taken up the hook-handed preacher’s cause and is demanding human rights organisations help him.

I hardly think ol’ Hookie has a right to complain about poor treatment in prison, especially when he has someone wiping his ass for him.

Hamza’s “plight” at top secur­ity Belmarsh Prison in south-east London was revealed in a letter from his wife, Nagat Mostafa, to the al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies.

In her letter written in May, shortly after her husband had surgery to remove an inch of bone from his infected left arm stump, she asked them to do all they could.

Here’s hoping that’s not the only bone they have to remove from him.

Times Online has the story of a British woman who married one of the sons of Osama bin Laden. Reading it, you would be excused for thinking you were reading The Onion.

A British woman has married a son of Osama bin Laden after a holiday romance and is to apply for a visa so that he can visit Britain, The Times has learnt.

Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother and parish councillor from Cheshire, has until now kept her marriage to Omar Ossama bin Laden, 27, secret from everyone apart from her immediate family and close friends. But she has now agreed to speak about her relationship with bin Laden’s fourth eldest son.

“It would be nice if, like any other married woman, I could stand up and say this is my husband and this is his name, but I have to be realistic about things,” she told The Times. “I hope people don’t judge me too harshly. I married the son, not the father.”

Mrs Felix-Browne says she is aware that some people will be hostile to her marriage. Among the numerous terrorist plots linked to her new father-in-law are the London suicide bombings on July 7, 2005, the July 21 plot, and the recent attempted attacks in London and Glasgow. “I just married the man I met and fell in love with, to me he is just Omar,” she said. “I hope that people will take a step back and think what it was like when they fell in love. He is the most beautiful person I have ever met. His heart is pure, he is pious, quiet, a true gentleman, and he is my best friend.”

Mrs Felix-Browne, who has been married five times previously, met Mr bin Laden in Egypt in September while undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis. She says that their fairytale romance began when her future husband saw her riding a horse near the Great Pyramid. They were married in Islamic ceremonies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and are awaiting permission from the authorities in Riyadh to make their marriage official.

Mrs Felix-Browne is still coming to terms with the practical difficulties of being the daughter-in-law of a man with a $25 million (¬£12.5 million) bounty on his head. “Omar is wary of everyone. He is constantly watching people who he feels might be following him. Not without reason he is fearful of cameras. He is the son of Osama,” she said. “But when we are together he forgets his life.”

Mrs Felix-Browne already knew some members of the bin Laden family through her Islamic marriage to a Saudi man in London when she was 16. She believes that she actually met Osama bin Laden at a party in London in the 1970s.

Omar bin Laden left Saudi Arabia as a child when his father was expelled for his extremist beliefs, his wife said. Living in exile in Sudan and then Afghanistan, he saw at first hand the creation of al-Qaeda and its techniques. Mrs Felix-Browne said: “I never had any problem with his past. Omar did not do anything wrong. He was a child when he was in Afghanistan.”

She said that her husband left Afghanistan before the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001. However, some reports claim that he split from his father only after the attack on New York and an argument about tactics.

Mrs Felix-Browne insisted: “He last saw his father in 2000 when they were both in Afghanistan. He left his father because he did not feel it was right to fight or to be in an army. Omar was training to be a soldier and he was only 19. He told me he has had no contact with his father since the day he left him. He misses his father. Omar doesn’t know if it was his father who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. I don’t think we will ever know.

So let’s get this straight. Omar is just a pure-hearted, pious, quiet pacifist. Oh, and he doesn’t really think his father was behind 9-11.

Apart from their religion the couple appear to have little in common. She has three sons and five grandchildren and is a respected parish councillor in the village of Moulton. She has had various jobs, including restoring houses and aircraft, and is a keen rider and scuba diver.

He works as a scrap metal dealer in Jedda and is one of at least 17 children fathered by bin Laden. His father’s reputation means that he has been ostracised by the wealthy and powerful bin Laden family and is under surveillance by the security services in Saudi Arabia.

Mrs Felix-Browne, who now uses the Islamic name Zaina Mohamad, says that she speaks to her husband for several hours every day over the internet or by telephone. During their conversations she refers to him repeatedly as “Habibi, “the Arabic for “my love.” She said: “I find it very difficult to live without him and I know he does too. But really we have the most normal life possible.”

And how normal is that?

She was aware before her marriage that her husband already had another wife and a two-year-old child. “I haven’t seen her but I have spoken to her for about an hour on the telephone,” she said. “She is fine about it.”

Moving right along..

Mrs Felix-Browne was initially reluctant to discuss her new husband but news of their relationship inevitably began to leak out in Britain and the Middle East. “I don’t want any of my family distressed or upset by my actions,” she said. “I know that for everybody who likes me there will probably be a million enemies.”

Now she hopes that Mr bin Laden will come to Britain. “He would like to spend quite a bit of time here,” she said. “There is no reason why he should not come to live, but I don’t think he would like the weather.”

Actually, I could think of plenty other reasons why he should not come to live in Britain. And the weather is not one of them.

Then again, he could always get a job as a policeman.