Deaths and Departures at Easter, on a slow news day.

Egyptian Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 45, who was on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists, suspected of being an Al Qaeda member is reported killed with 2 children and 6 militants in an attack led by helicopter gunships late Wednesday in the remote North Waziristan village of Naghar Kalai, near the Afghan border. (pic FBI)

After the aerial attacks ground forces arrived and took away 7 bodies said local residents.

It is also reported that alleged al-Qaeda explosives expert Abdul Rahman al-Masri was also killed.

Residents of Naghar, a town four miles from Miram Shah, North Waziristan's principal town, said a man in their village who appeared to be of Arab descent was "known to be commanding insurgents in the area".

Pakistan's information minister, Rashid Ahmed, told Reuters Atwah was among the dead, but Pakistani sources would not confirm that.

Atwah is alleged to have had a role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Those blasts killed more than 200 people, including 12 Americans, and Washington has a US$ 5 Mn bounty on his head.

Atwah was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York along with 21 other al-Qaida members, including Osama bin Laden, in connection with the attacks on the embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

A senior military officer Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, the top Pakistan army spokesmansaid information about the suspects came from 19 fighters who surrendered in North Waziristan this month.

Google News search Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah result = 495 items

8 year old Hadel Ghabeen, (Hadil Ghaban) whose home in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, was hit by two shells on Monday, was the 15th Palestinian to be killed in Gaza since Friday in shell and air attacks. Israel has been firing about 300 shells a day at Gaza at an estimated cost of more than £125,000 a day, according to the Israeli media.

Yesterday, hundreds of mourners attended a funeral for 8 year old Hadel.

Seven other members of her family were also wounded Rawan Ghaban (18 months); Rana Ghaban (3); Munir Ghaban (4); Amneh Ghaban (9); Ghassan Ghaban (11); Bassam Ghaban (15) and Tahrir Ghaban (17).

The young girl's badly injured body was wrapped in a yellow flag of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction and covered in olive branches as it was carried through the town to the local cemetery.

Google News search Hadel Ghabeen result = 1 item

Good News for Easter

Gerald Kaufman, Labour Party MP for Gorton who has been frequently criticized for his views on the Israeli state on BBC Radio 4 called for trials in Britain or before an international tribunal for those accused of killing peace activist Tom Hurndall and filmmaker James Miller in 2003.

"If the Israelis don't agree to either of those then I think we have got to consider economic sanctions against Israel."

But Andrew Dismore, vice chairman of the Labour Friends of Israel group in Parliament, Labour MP for Hendon said such action would achieve little.Curiously Dismore is quoted in the Daily Telegraph 9th April in response to an academics (Prof Ron Geaves) strange notions about how Muslims would view the 7/7 bombings.

"For me, the definition of terrorism is when an innocent human life is lost. These bombings were an act of criminality and terrorism because that loss occurred.

"No motive can justify an act of terrorism. I think this kind of speculation is unhelpful because it is taken seriously by some sections of the community who want to demonise Muslims."

This voice of reason in the Labour Party ( and Friends of Israel etc.,) , who would never wish to demonise Mulsims ..... is also quoted in today's SUN on the news that " MAD mullah Omar Bakri Mohammed's family are leaving Britain to join him" ... "

“This is the news everyone is waiting to hear, so what do they want, flowers on the way out?”

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on January 27th. It's origins lay in Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Anniversary for the Victims of National Socialism) in Germany. Such a day was proposed by Andrew Dismore after a visit he made to Auschwitz and was taken up by Tony Blair in 2000 and adopted by the UN in 2004. Celebrations were originally organised by the Home Office but now are organised by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, who are now organising for 2007.

Pic (c) Edgweware Times of the multi ethnic A. Dismore MP (2nd from left) at a Hindu temple in (of all places) Golders Green, He is NOT the man on the right with his shopping.