Selected articles appearing in UK newspapers Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Feb 22nd, 2012 by l.seddon
Daily Telegraph
Mother of plane crash cadet says RAF ‘utterly failed’ her son
Mark Hughes
Britain at risk from ‘GoldenEye’ electromagnetic pulse attack from space, MPs warn
Matthew Holehouse
Afghanistan: US embassy on lockdown as Koran burning protests continue for second day
Ben Farmer
Leon Panetta apologises for Koran burning that drew angry mob
Ben Farmer
Britain’s anti-piracy ‘conveyor belt’ stretches from Somalia to Seychelles and back
Mike Pflanz
Iran: UN inspectors denied access to key military site, IAEA say
Financial Times
GPS jammers threaten ships in Channel
Maija Palmer
MoD pair plead guilty in £16m bribery case
Caroline Binham
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12e816d4-5cad-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1n6IXh9N6
Qinetiq to derecognise unions
Brian Groom
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/359de6e0-5cb7-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1n6IXh9N6
IAEA ‘disappointed’ by Iran nuclear talks
James Blitz
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b894bf34-5ced-11e1-ac80-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1n6IXh9N6
Afghan protests spread over Koran burning
Reuters
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8cc859b2-5d22-11e1-889d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1n6IXh9N6
Nato apologises for Koran burning ‘error’
Matthew Green
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/34291e04-5ca5-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1n6IXh9N6
Where harsh realities meet [Analysis]
Michael Peel and Roula Khalaf
Somalia’s parallels with Afghanistan mean the world must act [Comments]
Mark Malloch-Brown
Syria violence pushes diplomatic divide
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/94b77724-5cab-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1n6IXh9N6
Guardian
Somalia: UK weighs up air strikes against rebels
Nick Hopkins and Richard Norton-Taylor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/21/uk-considers-air-strikes-somalia
Somali pirates take more risks and rethink tactics
Nick Hopkins and Clar Ni Chonghaile
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/21/somali-pirates-rethink-tactics
Al-Shabaab: the Somali militant group recruiting young Britons to its ranks
Nick Hopkins and Richard Norton-Taylor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/21/al-shabaab-somali-militant-recruiting
Nato apologise for Afghan Qur’an burning
Emma Graham-Harrison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/21/us-nato-apologise-afghan-quran-burning
Pakistan will not support Afghan talks until Kabul backs them, says minister
Julian Borger,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/21/pakistan-not-support-afghan-peace-talks
Qur’an protests force US embassy into lockdown
Reuters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/22/quran-protests-us-embassy-lockdown
An attack on Iran would be an act of criminal stupidity [Comments]
Seumas Milne
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/21/attack-on-iran-criminal-stupidity
Iran nuclear talks a failure, says IAEA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/22/iran-nuclear-talks-failure-iaea
Iran raises tension by threatening pre-emptive action
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/21/iran-tension-threat-pre-emptive-action
Cameron warns of threat in Somalia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/10106515
Independent
Leading article: When will the US learn to take care with the Koran? [Leading Article]
Outrage in Afghanistan as foreign forces burn Koran
Lianne Gutcher
Times
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Flaming Idiocy [Leading Article]
on Page 2
Air cadet killed on second lesson “failed utterly by RAF”
on Page 12
Nuclear Iran need not mean Middle East war [Opinions]
Anatole Kaletsky
on Page 21
Iran’s neighbours [Letters]
Randhir Singh Bains
on Page 22
Afghans in furious protest over Nato soldiers who burnt Koran
Jeremy Kelly
on Page 25
Only mullahs can calm the mob [Analysis]
Jerome Starkey
on Page 25
Monitors denied access to key nuclear site
Martin Fletcher
on Page 26
Unions in the line of fire as QinetiQ ends recognition
Robert Lea
on Page 39
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