Seen Elsewhere 03/09/2011

• SNP bid to control time

• Hearing on Muslims scorned as hypocrisy

  " (Peter) King, then a local politician on Long Island, was one of the most zealous American defenders of the militant IRA and its campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland. A quarter-century later, King is chairman of the powerful House Homeland Security Committee. As King prepares to hold hearings Thursday on what he called “the extent of the radicalization” of American Muslims, his past as a defender of armed struggle has led critics to say he is imposing a double standard."

• Labour race 15 points ahead of Nationalists in new poll

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