Militant groups in the region "have been trying to put a more Iraqi face" on their movement and have been trying to "exclude the foreign militants from a public role, " Bergen said.

CNN: Is al Qaeda in Iraq fighting a Sunni backlash?

To lose your right to freedom and face years of incarceration for something of which you are innocent because the courts have chosen to exclude sound expert evidence on memory is a travesty of British justice.

BBC: Can you trust your memory?

On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it...that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rear-guard action, the last time the bill went through.

BBC: Week ahead

On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it... that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rearguard action, the last time the bill went through.

BBC: Week ahead