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	Jack Straw (rebel leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jack Straw (probably the same person as Rackstraw) was one of the three leaders (together with John Ball and Wat Tyler) of the Peasants' Revolt or Great Rising of 1381, a major event in the history of Britain.
		According to information in the church of St Mary in Great Baddow, in Essex, England, Jack Straw led an ill-fated crowd from the churchyard to one of the risings.
		The British politician John Whitaker Straw (born 1946) adopted the name Jack Straw after the rebel leader.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Straw_(rebel_leader) (158 words)

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	Jack Straw - TheBestLinks.com - August 3, Grateful Dead, 1946, Seattle, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		John Whitaker Straw (born August 3 1946), commonly known as Jack Straw, is a British Labour Party politician.
		Jack Straw was a leader of the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381.
		The Jack Straw Foundation is a public radio foundation based in Seattle, Washington.
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	Telegraph \| News \| Straw urges Arafat to 'go extra mile'
		Mr Straw's trip is an attempt to hold together a coalition of irreconcilable opposites, such as Iran and Israel.
		Mr Straw is assured of a hot reception when he arrives in Israel after his talks in Iran.
		Mr Straw, however, believes it is time to deepen the "critical dialogue" it has established with Teheran's reformists since the resumption of diplomatic relations in 1990.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/25/nstraw225.xml (674 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Rebel vote stuns Blair - 27/2/03
		Jubilant rebels rubbed home their point when the bland main motion backing Mr Blair's position was carried by 434 to 124.
		Rebel MPs who claimed to be speaking for public opinion repeatedly argued that last night's vote would be their last chance to vote against a war within weeks.
		Jack Straw made the pledge after being enraged by remarks made overnight by the Labour chairman, John Reid, to the effect that there would be no more major votes.
	www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/rebelvotestunsblair.htm (1861 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Straw to demand more from Sudan
		Mr Straw, who is due to arrive in Khartoum this evening, told reporters at Heathrow airport that the Sudanese government would "face the opprobrium of the world" if it failed to rein in the Arab Janjaweed militia by the UN security council deadline of August 30.
		Mr Straw said he had told the leaders of Nigeria and Rwanda - both of which are involved in the monitoring mission, that Britain stood ready "to provide further assistance if necessary".
		One official said the point of Mr Straw's trip was "to impress on the government of Sudan how seriously the international community takes this, to make his own first-hand assessment of the situation and to feed that back to Kofi Annan and others".
	www.guardian.co.uk /sudan/story/0,14658,1289161,00.html (571 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Straw flew into Israel Wednesday for talks with his Israeli counterpart, Shimon Peres, and with Arafat in the West Bank, aimed at reducing the bloodshed and restarting the paralysed peace process.
		Straw shrugged off questions about replacing Arafat, making it clear the British government regarded Arafat as the Palestinians' only leader, despite the apparent involvement of officials close to him in the Karine A weapons debacle.
		Moscow demands that rebels disarm and hand over their commanders before a truce can be called, a condition that was instantly dismissed by the separatists.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/130202/theworld.htm (11978 words)

	TERRORISM IN WEST ASIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		American forces have had no good leads on the whereabouts of the rebel leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi since finding his laptop computer in February, but believe that reports of his wounding suggest his group may be in disarray.
		Iraqi police have arrested a key aide to the leader of the Mosul branch of the Al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist group, the government said on June 5, 05.Mutlaq Mahmoud Mutlaq Abdullah, also known as Abu Raad, was arrested on June 4.
		Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, flew into a diplomatic row in Israel on June 7, 05 after admitting his officials had been in contact with members of the militant group Hamas.
	www.observerindia.com /chapters/terrorism/trnews.htm (3896 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Straw visits Sudan refugee camp
		Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is in Sudan to put pressure on government leaders to resolve the humanitarian and security crisis there.
		Oxfam spokesman Brendan Cox said his organisation was pleased Mr Straw was making the trip but he added that the foreign secretary needed to bring pressure to bear in a bid to end the violence in Sudan.
		The Sudanese conflict began in Darfur in early 2003 after a rebel group began attacking government targets, claiming that the region was being neglected by Khartoum.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3585372.stm (615 words)

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		In the literature of the Peasants' Revolt, Jack Straw is often cited as a rebel leader.
		On Thursday, 13 June, the rebels burned the Savoy to the ground and turned Gaunt's coat of arms upside down (sign of a traitor to the realm).
		Richard was the son of Edward, the Black Prince, celebrated military leader and hero of the battle of Poitiers (1356), who captured the French king John.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/taxnts.htm (601 words)

	British toll hits 440 as Straw admits flaws - Asia Tsunami - www.smh.com.au
		Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, made the grim announcement in Thailand after meeting the families of victims and talking to British police working on one of the biggest forensic operations in history.
		Mr Straw said it could be months before the final death toll was known.
		Police hope, however, that many of these people, who are mainly backpackers, have simply failed to contact their families, or that relatives have not updated the police once contact has been made.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Asia-Tsunami/British-toll-hits-440-as-Straw-admits-flaws/2005/01/09/1105205983471.html (646 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Straw demands action in Darfur
		UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has urged Sudan to do more to resolve the Darfur refugee crisis after he visited a refugee camp in the troubled region.
		Mr Straw toured a feeding centre for critically ill children at the Abu Shouk refugee camp in northern Darfur.
		Rebel groups operating in Darfur also had to take responsibility for restoring stability to the region, he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3593190.stm (824 words)

	Observer \| Mr Straw, I presume
		It was there that Straw and the Prime Minister put the finishing touches to their diplomatic trips.
		Straw is now the forward guard, the man showing that Blair's visit is part of a concerted effort to make diplomatic progress.
		Straw and Blair will begin their journey into Africa this week armed with little more than wise words and the promise of money.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4339105-108605,00.html (1337 words)

	Jack Straw (rebel leader) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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		According to information in the church of St Mary in (Click link for more info and facts about Great Baddow) Great Baddow, in (Click link for more info and facts about Essex, England) Essex, England, Jack Straw led an ill-fated crowd from the churchyard to one of the risings.
		The British politician (Click link for more info and facts about John Whitaker Straw) John Whitaker Straw (born 1946) adopted the name Jack Straw after the rebel leader.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Ja/Jack_Straw_(rebel_leader).htm (145 words)

	Remarks With United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jack Straw at the Blackburn Institute's Frank A. Nix Lecture
		It was, after all, the city of Bull Connor and the Ku Klux Klan, where fls were haunted by rebel yells and terrorized by nightriders and accused of burning their own homes.
		But the compromises were that provided people and leaders were on the side, we didn't inquire too much about the nature of the regimes that they were running.
		Straw, you spoke of the huge Muslim population in your hometown, with Europe trending towards Muslim demographic, how serious is the problem of assimilation toward the European culture?
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2005/55423.htm (8675 words)

	Straw wraps up SA visit
		Straw met his counterpart Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Cape Town, accompanied by a high-profile British delegation which included health minister John Hutton and armed forces minister Adam Ingram.
		The fragile South African-brokered peace process was thrown into a new crisis on Monday after a call by the leader of the former rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) for the ex-insurgent group turned political party to suspend its participation in the transitional government.
		Although denied by officials, Straw's visit was overshadowed by the arrest of Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who was charged on Wednesday with funding a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_1579455,00.html (457 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Jack Straw and Muammar Gaddafi ready to listen to kidnappers
		According to the Guardian, the government is ready to listen to a message from the kidnappers of Kenneth Bigley but will not enter into negotiations with them, the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said today.
		Mr Straw, who is on a surprise visit to Iraq, spoke to reporters in Baghdad following his meeting with Iraq's deputy prime minister for national security, Barham Saleh.
		A day after Indonesia's Electoral Commission announced that presidential challenger Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is to be the country's new leader, the transition process has slowed to a crawl because the incumbent has not formally accepted defeat.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/10/07/56470.html (1688 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Jack Straw kept away by Skopje
		Skopje, which was to have been the focus of Jack Straw's trip, was braced last night for new protests after Monday's riot by hardliners from the majority population enraged at a partial ceasefire which allowed ethnic Albanian rebels safe passage out of a village they had seized near by.
		The ceasefire brokered by the EU allowed several hundred rebels to move from the village of Aracinovo, just six miles from the capital, to Nikustak, four miles further north.
		Mr Straw and the EU's newly appointed envoy to the country, François Léotard of France, said they would go to Skopje as soon as things were calmer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /macedonia/story/0,7369,513087,00.html (630 words)

	SudanTribune article : Key moments in the Darfur rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		March 14: Rebels claiming to belong to the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), the renamed DLF, demand that Khartoum step up economic development in the region and better distribute the wealth.
		August 11: Rebels accuse the pro-government Arab militias, the so-called Janjaweed, of killing 300 people in Kuttum, the second-largest town in North Darfur state.
		Rebels leave on July 18 and demand that talks continue in another country.
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=4149 (708 words)

	Current News From Israel
		Some of the Fatah rebels are pushing for Marwan Barghouti, the Tanzim leader currently serving five life sentences in Israel, as the movement's candidate to replace the late Yasser Arafat, arguing that the popular Barghouti had a better chance of winning.
		Straw arrived in Israel on Tuesday night, for a two-day trip aimed at restarting peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
		Straw met with opposition leader Shimon Peres earlier today, and he is to hold talks with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.
	nyjtimes.com /Heritage/News/Nov2204.htm (3196 words)

	CNN.com - Rebel chief marks conflict's end - August 28, 2001
		As NATO troops began the third day of the operation to collect weapons from his National Liberation Army, guerrilla leader Ali Ahmeti said the new task is to make sure the peace process holds.
		According to the disarmament plan, Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian rebels are supposed to withdraw from positions where they are in close contact.
		Youths are being blamed for throwing the lump of concrete that killed the 22-year-old serviceman as he drove toward the capital Skopje on Sunday night.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/28/macedonia (651 words)

	Jack Straw (rebel leader) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Jack Straw (rebel leader) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	Lord of the Big Guys \| Outside Online
		Happily defaming both is Jack Wheeler, a 49-year-old adventure-travel impresario and right-winger extraordinaire who cheerfully insists that the First Lady is carrying on reckless "lesbian affairs." This story sprouted on the Washington, D.C., rumor vine during the Clinton administration's early days, then died for lack of fertilizing evidence.
		Goofus Jack is a sexist pig who, within earshot of rucksack-toting trekker women, blares: "I've never seen a good-looking hippie chick." But Gallant Jack is an enjoyable companion whose inner drive to explore new horizons is the source of genuine joie de vivre.
		Goofus Jack is gone, blissed out of existence, and will not be seen again until we return to Leh, where his pushiness at the airport will almost spark a riot among security personnel and disgruntled European trekkers.
	outside.away.com /magazine/0294/942flord.html (4933 words)

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		Uzbek Interior Minister Zakir Almatov speaks to visiting UN officials, diplomats and journalists in Andijan, Uzbekistan, Wednesday with the administrative building seized by militants during Friday's violence in the background.
		ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan (AP) - Diplomats and UN officials toured the eastern city of Andijan under government escort Wednesday to investigate widely differing accounts of recent bloodshed, as a rebel leader deepened the crisis in eastern Uzbekistan by announcing an Islamic uprising in his border town.
		The government of President Islam Karimov quickly shrugged off Bakhtiyor Rakhimov's claims as "nonsense," but the rebel leader asserted that his forces controlled Korasuv - a town of 20,000 on the border with Kyrgyzstan - and were ready to fight any government troops that came to crush his rebellion.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050518/w051820.html (573 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Russia's carrot-and-stick approach to the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		While lashing out at the West for harboring Chechen rebel exiles and a number of other things it considers counterproductive to the “war on terror”, Russia is also being careful to dangle a few economic carrots in its diplomatic relationship game.
		British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw spoke in favor of it, while US Secretary of State Collin Powell said he would look into it.
		However, given the fact the EU is Russia's largest trading partner and that individual leaders of EU countries - such as Germany, France, and Italy - maintain good relations with Putin, one should not expect a lasting Cold War on this front either.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=9773 (1280 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Politics - Respect woos whistleblower standing against Jack Straw
		THE anti-war party Respect is hoping to woo a former ambassador-turned-whistleblower to stand as its candidate against Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary.
		He has now vowed to try to oust Mr Straw as an anti-war candidate in his Blackburn constituency, which has one of the largest Muslim populations in the country.
		Last night, he said he was still standing as an independent candidate, but was "grateful" for the "support" of Respect, the party of rebel MP George Galloway.
	news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=336162005 (339 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Straw to step up Darfur pressure
		Mr Straw told MPs he would press for the African Union force monitoring the ceasefire between rebel and government troops to be expanded.
		Mr Straw told MPs: "The UK will call in the Security Council for clear benchmarks to be set, detailing what steps the Sudanese government must now take toward meeting its responsibilities and resolving the conflict.
		Mr Straw said the conflict in Darfur, which has been going on for some decades, could only be resolved by a political settlement involving a devolution of power and wealth.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/uk_politics/3635356.stm (640 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Straw urges new Janjaweed curbs
		Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, flies to Sudan today to press the Khartoum government to rein in militias waging a campaign of terrorism in the western province of Darfur.
		After the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Britain is reluctant to become involved in more military action that could be presented as a western attack on an Arab or Muslim country.
		Mr Straw will tell the Sudanese government to do more to end the "impunity" of the Janjaweed, a militia of nomads accused of killing thousands of villagers and driving more than a million out of their homes.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/23/wsud23.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/23/ixportal.html (502 words)

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