[ 2011-07-07 ]

End of the World!
London (UK) 07 July 2011 CNN - Scandal-hit British
tabloid the News of the World will shut down after
Sunday's issue, its owner News International told
CNN today.

The dramatic announcement follows accusations that
the paper illegally eavesdropped on the messages
of murder and terror victims, politicians and
celebrities.

Police investigating the case have identified the
names of nearly 4,000 potential victims, they said
on Thursday.

A top British military veterans' organization said
today it is suspending ties with the newspaper
after accusations that it hacked into the phone
messages of families of troops killed in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday backed
calls for an independent inquiry into the scandal,
with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg insisting
today it should be led by a judge and have the
power to call witnesses.

Thursday's announcement from the Royal British
Legion comes after some advertisers pulled their
ad campaigns from News of the World.

The charity representing British veterans "can't
with any conscience campaign alongside News of the
World on behalf of Armed Forces families while it
stands accused of preying on these same families
in the lowest depths of their misery," it said in
a statement, saying the allegations "have shocked
us to the core."

The newspaper's parent company, Rupert Murdoch's
News International, says it is cooperating with a
wide-ranging police investigation into the
accusations, which also include bribing police
officers.

The company is "close to identifying" how the
hacking of murdered teenager Milly Dowler's phone
happened, a News International source told CNN,
declining to be named discussing internal
corporate business.

The revelation that the girl's phone had been
hacked after she was reported missing in 2002, and
that messages were deleted, giving her parents
hope she was alive when she had already been
murdered, outraged Britain this week.

News International said on Thursday that if the
accusation of hacking into the messages of fallen
troops' families was true, "we are absolutely
appalled and horrified."

Murdoch himself on Wednesday called allegations of
hacking and bribery "deplorable and
unacceptable."

Graham Foulkes, whose son was killed in a 2005
London terrorist attack, said Wednesday his phone
number and home address were found in the files of
a private investigator working for the News of the
World.

Foulkes' son David was among the 52 people killed
on July 7, 2005, when suicide bombers struck three
London Underground trains and a bus.

Police launched a special investigation this year
into accusations that News of the World engaged in
widespread phone hacking.

Actor Hugh Grant told CNN Wednesday that police
had visited him as part of their investigation.

"We are no longer talking about politicians and
celebrities but murder victims, potentially
terrorist victims. It's absolutely disgusting what
has taken place," Cameron said in the House of
Commons. "I think everyone in this house and
country will be revolted by what they've heard and
seen on their TV screens."

But Cameron said the inquiry could not begin until
after the police investigation was done, for fear
of interfering with it.

News Corp. subsidiary News International, which
owns News of the World, said it welcomed "calls
for a broad public inquiry into standards and
practices in the industry."

On Thursday, London's Metropolitan Police said
they were asking the Independent Police Complaints
Commission to investigate the possible bribery of
police officers by people working for the News
International media group.

The announcement came a day after the police said
they would investigate the case themselves.

"However, in view of the significant public and
political concern expressed following the
publication of this information," police Thursday
"made a formal referral to the IPCC," they said in
a statement.

News International Wednesday confirmed it had
given police paperwork related to the possible
bribery, calling the handover evidence of its
"determination as a company to deal responsibly
and correctly with the issues."

The company also said Wednesday it was "shocked
and appalled at any serious allegations with
regards to victims of crime."

"Our company must fully and proactively cooperate
with the police in all investigations, and that is
exactly what News International has been doing and
will continue to do under (CEO) Rebekah Brooks'
leadership," Murdoch said in his separate
statement.

Phone hacking involves calling a phone from two
other phones at the same time, sending one caller
to voice mail. That caller then enters the code
number to retrieve voice mail remotely. Hackers
depend on the fact that many people never change
the default PIN for voice mail retrieval.

The paper has apologized for hacking into the
voice mails of celebrities and politicians, paying
compensation to actress Sienna Miller and offering
money to others.


At least five people have been arrested in
connection with phone hacking investigations this
year since a new investigation, Operation Weeting,
was launched in January.

Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and a
journalist working for the News of the World were
sent to prison in 2007 for hacking into the voice
mails of royal staff in an earlier investigation.

Police launched the new investigation this year in
response to widespread complaints from
high-profile figures who fear they may have been
targets.

In addition to owning News of the World, News
International owns the Sun, the Times and the
Sunday Times in Britain.

Murdoch's News Corp. also encompasses Fox News,
the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and
Harper Collins publishers
Private investigator at centre of phone-hacking
row apologises
The private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who is at
the centre of News of the World phone hacking
allegations, tonight apologised for any hurt he
has caused.



London (UK) – 05 July 2011 – The Telegraph -
In a statement released to the Guardian, Glenn
Mulcaire said he had worked under ''relentless
pressure'' at the Sunday newspaper and there was a
''constant demand for results''.

He said: ''I want to apologise to anybody who was
hurt or upset by what I have done.''

Mulcaire issued the statement after allegations
emerged yesterday that he illegally accessed the
voicemail messages of schoolgirl Milly Dowler in
the days after she went missing.

Milly was abducted by Levi Bellfield as she walked
home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in
March 2002.

But some voicemail messages on her phone were
allegedly deleted by people working for the News
of the World, giving Molly's parents Bob and Sally
Dowler false hope that their daughter was still
alive.

Mulcaire, who made no direct reference to the
hacking of her phone, said he had never intended
to interfere with any police inquiry.

He said: "I want to apologise to anybody who was
hurt or upset by what I have done. I've been to
court. I've pleaded guilty. And I've gone to
prison and been punished. I still face the
possibility of further criminal prosecution.

"Working for the News of the World was never easy.
There was relentless pressure. There was a
constant demand for results."

Mulcaire and former News of the World royal editor
Clive Goodman were given jail terms in January
2007 after the Old Bailey heard they plotted to
hack into royal aides' telephone messages.

T-Mobile reviews News of the World advertising
over Milly Dowler phone hacking claims
T-Mobile is considering joining Ford by pulling
its advertising in News of the World following
Monday's allegations that the newspaper hacked
Milly Dowler’s phone after she went missing.

London (UK) – 05 July 2011 – The Telegraph -
A T-Mobile spokesman told the Telegraph: "We’re
currently reviewing our advertising position with
News of the World, following the recent
allegations, and await the outcome of the ongoing
police investigation.”

It is also understood that Currys and PC World are
reviewing their options.

On Tuesday afternoon, it emerged that car
manufacturer Ford has pulled its advertising in
the News of the World.

Ford has suspended all advertising with the News
of the World until the phone hacking claims have
been fully investigated.

The car manufacturer said in a statement: "Ford is
a company which cares about the standards of
behaviour of its own people and those it deals
with externally. We are awaiting an outcome from
the News of the World investigation and expect a
speedy and decisive response. Pending this
response we will be using alternative media within
and outside News International Group instead of
placing Ford advertising in the News of the
World."


A spokesperson from Halifax bank told the
Telegraph on Tuesday they would be "reviewing and
considering their options with regards to future
advertising" in the News of the World, following
Npower and Ford's decision to consider places ads
in the Sunday tabloid.


Energy giant Npower is deciding whether to stop
advertising with the News International Sunday
title.

“We are just reviewing our options. A decision
hasn’t been made by the business yet,” a
spokeswoman said.

Twitter and Facebook were from Monday busy with
users urging advertisers to boycott the News of
the World. Many threatened specific companies that
they would withdraw their custom unless those
companies dissasociated themselves from the
newspaper. There was also a Facebook page
campaigning for a boycott.

WM Morrison and The Co-operative supermarkets are
standing by the News of The World by continuing to
advertise in the paper, despite Monday’s
allegations that the newspaper hacked Milly
Dowler’s phone after she went missing.

WM Morrison is understood to be holding fire on
reviewing whether to continue.

The Co-operative Group, which also owns The
Co-operative bank, said in a statement: “The
Co-operative Group believes it would be
irresponsible to contemplate a ban on advertising
in the NOTW based on allegations that are still
being investigated.”

Supermarket giant Tesco, who currently has an
advert on the News of the World's website, wrote
on Facebook: "We know that you have a lot of
questions surrounding recent News of the World
allegations.

"These latest allegations will cause huge distress
to a family which has suffered enough. It’s now
a matter for the police; like everyone, we await
the outcome of their investigation."

Meanwhile, tens of other companies across the
media, retail and transport sectors, contacted by
The Telegraph, are still prevaricating on whether
to pull advertising.

Fashion retailer Next does not advertise with News
of the World and has no ads booked with its sister
tabloid The Sun, but it said that it regards the
latter paper as editorially independent of NOTW
and so would be unlikely to change its marketing
strategy.

Virgin Media said it “patiently awaits the
outcome of any investigation”, although it said
it also does not advertise much in News
International publications, while BT declined to
comment at all. Marks & Spencer also downplayed
its involvement with News of the World. It said it
advertised recently in Fabulous magazine, but was
not reviewing whether or not it would have any
future involvement.

Ed Miliband calls for public inquiry into phone
hacking
Ed Miliband this morning became the first party
leader to call for a public inquiry into phone
hacking by newspapers, following allegations that
Milly Dowler's voicemails were accessed by the
News of the World.
London (UK) - 05 Jul 2011 – The Telegraph - The
Labour leader said the revelations were "a stain
on British journalism" and called on News
International’s chief executive Rebekah Brooks
to consider her position.

He said: "This is about a pattern of criminality
that took place at an organisation and it needs to
be investigated properly.

“A police inquiry needs to take place without
fear of favour and then we need a much wider
inquiry to restore the reputation of British
journalism."

He described the alleged hacking as "cruel and
immoral” and said Mrs Brooks should “consider
her conscience and consider her position".

Sources at News International said Mrs Brooks, who
was editor of the News of the World at the time of
Milly’s disappearance in 2002, had the full
backing of Rupert Murdoch and was unlikely to
resign.


Despite his tough criticism of News International,
Mr Miliband would not comment on whether News Corp
should be allowed to take full control of
satellite broadcaster BSkyB.

“I think that BSkyB is a separate issue about
the operation of competition law,” he said,
echoing earlier comments made John Whittingdale,
chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport select
committee,

Last night, the Labour leader was criticised by
one of his own MPs for not acting sooner to demand
an inquiry.

Tom Watson said the phone hacking was evidence of
a “failure of political leadership” by all
three main parties.

Speaking on Newsnight he said: "There have been
plenty of hints to Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and
David Cameron that something very murky happened
with [private investigator] Glenn Mulcaire and the
News of the World.

“They have let the Dowler family down tonight by
not calling for a public inquiry... Politicians
are frightened of News International and they need
to act."

Labour figures have often led the political attack
on News International since allegations of a
widespread culture of phone hacking began to
emerge in 2009.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott was
among those whose messages were allegedly accessed
by private investigators working for the News of
the World and he has been a vocal critic of Mr
Murdoch’s plan to take over BSkyB.

Yesterday, he said Mr Murdoch was “not fit” to
take over the company and said he was writing to
the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to object to the
the proposals.

David Cameron: allegations of Milly Dowler phone
hacking are 'truly dreadful'
Prime Minister David Cameron today condemned the
alleged hacking by the News of the World of
murdered teenager Milly Dowler's mobile telephone
as a "truly dreadful act".
London (UK) - 05 Jul 20111 – The Telegraph - Mr
Cameron said claims that a private investigator,
working for the newspaper, intercepted and deleted
voicemails on the schoolgirl's phone shortly after
her disappearance were “really appalling”, if
true.

He urged police to carry out a "vigorous"
investigation "without any worry about where the
evidence should lead them".

The remarks come after Miss Dowler's parents said
they had been given “false hope” that their
daughter could still have been alive after her
messages were accessed.

Speaking at a press conference today in
Afghanistan, where he has been visiting British
troops, Mr Cameron said: “If they (the
allegations) are true, this is a truly dreadful
act and a truly dreadful situation.

“What I have read in the papers is quite, quite
shocking that someone could do this, actually
knowing that the police were trying to find this
person (Milly Dowler) and trying to find out what
had happened, and we all now know the tragedy that
took place.

“There is a police investigation into hacking
allegations. The police in our country are quite
rightly independent.

“But they should feel they should investigate
this without any fear, without any favour, without
any worry about where the evidence should lead
them.

“They should pursue this in the most vigorous
way that they can in order to get to the truth of
what happened.

“I think that is the absolute priority as a
police investigation.”

It is claimed that the Sunday tabloid targeted the
13 year-old's phone in March 2002, shortly after
she was snatched from the streets near her home in
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

The newspaper allegedly erased voicemails left on
her phone by concerned friends and relatives to
free up space in her inbox, so it could access
fresh messages for stories.

The deleting of the messages led family members to
believe that the teenager could still be alive. It
could also have erased evidence that would have
assisted police.

Details of the alleged hacking were found in
nearly 10,000 pages of notes seized by Scotland
Yard detectives from Glenn Mulcaire, a private
investigator who worked for the News of the World

The alleged hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone
represents the most significant twist in the
scandal surrounding the News of the World, which
has previously been confined, in most cases, to
celebrity victims.

A lawyer speaking on behalf of Sally and Bob
Dowler described the alleged hacking as
“heinous” and “despicable” as he announced
that the family were pursuing a claim for
damages.

Police are set to meet News of the World
executives today to discuss the fresh
allegations.

But the BBC and Sky have both reported that
Rebekah Brooks, editor of the News of the World at
the time of the alleged hacking and now chief
executive of the paper's publisher News
International, will not be resigning over the
allegations.

Ed Miliband, he says Brooks should "consider her
conscience and consider her position. This was a
systematic series of things that happened. This
was not just one rogue reporter."

Mr Miliband said self-regulation of the press has
not been working.

Brooks is set to tell News International staff
that she is "deeply shocked" but was not involved
or aware of what was going on at her newspaper.

A spokesman for News International, the paper's
publisher, said: "This particular case is clearly
a development of great concern and we will be
conducting our own inquiries as a result. We will
obviously co-operate fully with any police request
on this."

Last night, a Labour MP claimed that investigators
had also targeted one of the parents of Holly
Wells and Jessica Chapman, the victims of the
Soham murderer Ian Huntley.

It has also been disclosed that police have
contacted Sir Richard Branson, the entrepreneur,
and Colin Stagg, the man wrongly accused of
killing Rachel Nickell, to inform them that they
may have been victims of phone hacking.

Politicians said that the allegations raised fresh
concerns over the bid by Rupert Murdoch’s News
Corporation — which owns News International —
to take full ownership of BskyB. Labour figures
questioned the suitability of Mr Murdoch as the
prospective sole owner of the television company.

John Whittingdale, chairman of the Culture, Media
and Sport select committee, said there had been a
long-standing lack of "willingness" in News
International, and among the police, to fully
investigate phone hacking allegations.

He added: "There have been previous police
investigations which concluded there wasn't
evidence.

"Even what is coming out now is evidence that has
been in the possession of the police ever since
the original arrest of Glenn Mulcaire."

The Conservative MP said the issue was separate to
the planned full takeover of BSkyB by News Corp.

He added: "News Corp is a global enterprise and I
don't think one should condemn and entire global
organisation for something that, very clearly, was
going wrong at the News of the World."

Mr Cameron, speaking in Afghanistan, made clear
that he would not intervene in the bid by News
Corporation to take a majority stake in BSkyB.

"The Government, on these processes, is acting in
a quasi-judicial way and it is quite right that
the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and
Sport (Jeremy Hunt) carries out his role in that
manner without any interference from anyone else
in the Government," he said.

"That is one of the reasons that I have completely
abstracted myself from this process and want him
to carry out his role in the way that he should
under the law."

At one point during the police investigation into
Milly Dowler's disappearance, the News of the
World ran an article which, it is suggested,
hinted at the fact the newspaper had access to her
voicemails.

A story published in the newspaper on April 14,
2002 told of a woman who had apparently been
posing as the youngster when applying for jobs.
The story claimed the woman gave a recruitment
company Milly’s number and continues: “The
agency used the number to contact Milly when a job
vacancy arose and left a message on her voicemail
after the 13 year-old vanished.”


Scotland Yard refused to comment, but a senior
police source said: “This was a gross, gross
breach of journalistic standards. Really terrible.
We are only just beginning to see the scale of
what was going on.”

Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Paul
Connew, a former deputy editor of the News of the
World, said: "It raises a lot of challenging
questions as to who knew what and when."

Mr Connew said there were numerous questions to be
asked of the leadership at the News of the World
at the time:

He said: "It depends on who was running Glenn
Mulcaire, who he was reporting to and whether
there was an elaborate attempt to conceal... what
he was up to and why he was being paid.

"Quite clearly he was working to certain
executives but how high up the command chain
knowledge went is the million dollar question."

Asked if it was conceivable that Brooks did not
know about the hacking, he added: "I was always
very determined to know the provenance of stories
but that doesn't necessarily mean every editor
is.

"It all depends on the relationship they had with
more junior executives and how honest those
executives were with their superiors."

Tom Watson, a Labour MP, said in the Commons
yesterday that the alleged hacking was a
“despicable and evil act”.

Hackers Unite
Huffington Post – 07 July 2011
The thieves who made off with more than $2.5M from
Citibank and caused the bank to issue 100,000
replacement bank cards have highlighted an
alarming trend. Hackers are evolving. And, they
are organizing and uniting. They even have a
Twitter account. Before the advent of the
Internet, we called these hackers "robbers" or
"criminals" or the "mafia." However, now that the
Internet has provided a way to enter the front
door through the digital underground, hacking has
evolved in to a disastrous enterprise.

I'm seeing the evolution of four kinds of hackers
emerging into cohesive groups that we need to pay
close attention to.

Mobsters: The hackers who attacked Citibank are
probably "mobster" hackers. Mobsters are hackers
who are connected to large-scale criminal
enterprises bringing new meaning to the phrase
"organized crime." In some cases, crime families
are hiring hacking groups to procure log-in
information for one site knowing that many
consumers today are using the same log-in for
their financial sites as well. Citibank seems like
a perfect example of this kind of activity.

Taunters: Taunting hackers are just thumbing their
noses at anyone who dares to believe they have
good online security systems in place. These kinds
of hacker are breaking security settings, stealing
email addresses, and bypassing firewalls just to
show that it can be done, usually to the great
embarrassment of the company being preyed upon.
The hackers who keep breaching Sony's systems and
the CIA website are most likely taunters.

Activists: Activist hackers seem to have taken a
nod from Taunters. While the act of hacking
remains criminal, hackers who are breaching
security to support a social cause aren't in it
for the money. The hi-jacking of the PBS website
to protest the Frontline story on WikiLeaks is a
prime example as are the attacks on Visa,
MasterCard, PayPal, and Sarah Palin. These are
more like sit-ins, road blocks, and Green Peace
protests.

Anarchists: The fourth and final kind of hackers
are those who are working to dismantle
governments, disrupt the lives of entire
populations, or shut down some branch of
government. Anarchist hackers may be engaged in
what some might call terrorists activities and
others might call citizen uproars or even
revolutions. (On a side note, when sponsored by
nation-states against enemies, they fall under
counter-intelligence activities as well. See
unleashing worms).

Whenever those destined to engage in criminal
activity of any kind begin to unite and organize,
good citizens must pay serious attention.
Metamorphosis is a dynamic process, and the
hacking evolution is no different. As certain
groups gain strength and numbers, allegiances will
shift and factions will break.

And as they declare war on each other, the good
citizens of the world, like you and I, can find
ourselves in a heap of collateral damage.

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Phone hacking: families of war dead 'targeted' by
News of the World
The bereaved relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq
and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked
by a private investigator working for the News of
the World.
London (UK) - 06 Jul 2011 – The Telegraph - The
Daily Telegraph has learnt that the personal
details of the families of servicemen who died on
the front line have been found in the files of
Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective working for
the Sunday tabloid.

The disclosure that grieving relatives of war dead
were targets for the newspaper prompted anger
among military charities, who said it was a
“disgusting and indefensible assault on
privacy”.

The Metropolitan Police is facing growing calls
from the families of murder victims, those killed
in terrorist attacks and those who died in natural
disasters, such as the Indonesian tsunami, to
disclose if they were targets.

Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News of
the World and now chief executive of News
International, its parent company, faced calls
from Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, to step
down.

Yesterday The Daily Telegraph disclosed that
families of victims of the July 7 bombings were
targets for Mulcaire in the days after the
atrocity in 2005.

Last night it emerged that among the 7/7 victims
who may have had their phones hacked was Paul
Dadge, who appeared in one of the most memorable
images of the London bombings as he helped Davinia
Turrell with a bandaged face at Edgware Road Tube
station.

Mr Dadge said he thought his phone may have been
hacked because Mrs Turrell would not speak to
journalists. “The girl in the photo, Davinia
Turrell, because she wasn’t talking to the
press, they tried to get at her through me,” he
said.

He is one of six relations and victims of the
attacks who allegedly had their phones hacked.
Graham Foulkes, whose son David was killed in the
Edgware Road bomb and Sean Cassidy, whose
22-year-old son Ciaran was killed in the King’s
Cross blast, have also been contacted by Scotland
Yard. Yesterday other victims said to have been
hacked by the newspaper were named by MPs in
Parliament.

Chris Bryant, a Labour front bencher, named
Danielle Jones, a 15-year-old murdered by her
uncle in June 2001, as a potential victim. He also
suggested that the phones of individuals linked to
the cases of Madeleine McCann, Sarah Payne, and
Scotland Yard detectives who worked on the first
investigation into phone hacking had been
targeted.

Last night soldiers’ charities demanded that the
police release the names contained in Mulcaire’s
9,200 pages of records so they can discover
whether they were targets.

Col Douglas Young, the chairman of the British
Armed Forces Federation, said police were failing
families by leaving them in the dark about whether
or not they had been targets.

He said he would seek a meeting with the
Metropolitan Police Commissioner if families were
not told within days whether or not they may have
been hacked.

“It is now imperative that the police do follow
up and do say as quickly as possible 'we have now
contacted everybody involved’ because otherwise
it is going to leave a lot of worry and
concern,” he said.

A spokesman for the Army Families Federation
added: “Families who have endured the loss of
their soldier will find this privacy assault
disgusting and indefensible, as will all serving
personnel who will question the sanctity of their
precious phone calls home.”

The disclosure that the News of the World phone
hacking involved victims of crime began earlier
this week with the revelation that Milly
Dowler’s mobile phone voicemails had been
intercepted in the days following her
disappearance.

Police also confirmed that the families of
10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who
were murdered by Ian Huntley in Soham in 2002, had
been contacted by detectives in Operation Weeting,
the Met’s investigation into phone hacking.

Mr Dadge received an email from the Metropolitan
Police informing him that his name had appeared in
their records. He said: “I’m disappointed on a
personal level to be honest. I have always
co-operated with the media in anything they wanted
and now to find they might have violated my
personal life, it’s not nice.”

Linda Jones, the mother of Danielle, said: “The
police have promised to investigate on our behalf
and we’re waiting to hear back.

“If we have been targeted then obviously we
think we deserve to be told exactly why it was
allowed to happen, when it happened and who was
responsible.

“This has come out of the blue for us and caused
me so much stress. There has to be transparency
and there needs to be answers.”

A spokesman for the family of Jean Charles de
Menezes, the Brazilian man mistakenly shot dead by
police after the July 7 bombings, last night
confirmed they have asked detectives whether there
was any evidence they had been targets. Fiona
MacKeown, the mother of 15-year-old Scarlett
Keeling, who was raped and murdered in India in
2008, said she had called Scotland Yard to ask if
there was any evidence her phone had been hacked.

“It’s ridiculous that people have to go to the
cops and ask them for information. If you have
been a victim of a crime then you have the right
to know, they should just tell you,” she said.

Last night it also emerged that Sion Jenkins, the
foster father of murdered Billie-Jo Jenkins, had
contacted police believing his phone had been
hacked and had been given only a vague answer. Mr
Jenkins’s wife, Tina, said: “It’s ridiculous
because all the people who have had it confirmed
that their voicemails have been broken into have
all had money or expensive lawyers. We just want
to know the truth.”

Families of the 153 Britons killed in the 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami are also considering
contacting police to find out whether they were
targets.

Relations discussed their concerns about the News
of the World when they met in London yesterday for
the dedication of a memorial to the victims. “If
they have broken the law to get details of victims
of the July 7 bombings it is obviously a very
small step to do the same for the victims of the
tsunami,” said Steve Gill, co-chairman of
Tsunami Support UK.

He said that the organisation was considering
contacting Scotland Yard collectively to find out
whether victims had been targets.

The latest revelations came as Mrs Brooks, who was
editor of the News of the World at the time, faced
growing pressure to step down. She also edited The
Sun, another News International title, which
championed Help for Heroes, the military charity,
and started a military awards ceremony known as
“the Millies”.

Colin Myler, the current editor of the News of the
World, yesterday told journalists that the paper
faced an “extremely painful period ahead”.

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