Saturday's papers

I took some flesh home and called it my son.'is the headline in the Guardian as the paper interviews 11 villagers from the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan,where a NATO airstrike last friday killed many of the population

They picked their way through a heap of almost a hundred charred bodies and mangled limbs which were mixed with ash, mud and the melted plastic of jerry cans, looking for their brothers, sons and cousins. They called out their names but received no answers. By this time, everyone was dead.

The West must start negotiating with Afghanistan's Islamists,says the Independent

Eight years on, as the West struggles to form a coherent policy on Afghanistan amid mounting domestic opposition to the war, Mullah Muttawakil has claimed that the West has repeatedly squandered chances for peace.

According to the Telegraph,The SAS has been ordered by the Government to train Libyan special forces despite the country having armed the IRA,

For the past six months Britain’s elite troops have been schooling soldiers working for Col Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, which for years provided Republican terrorists with the Semtex explosive, machine-guns and anti-aircraft missiles used against British troops during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. says the paper

The Telegraph reports the words of David Cameron who tell Benedict Brogan and Andrew Porter that the next election is far from in the bag.

Mr Cameron reminds his party of the challenge ahead. “There is an enormous amount we have to do to win the election, which is just so far from being in the bag. It’s a million miles away from that.”

According to the Times,

Tens of thousands of students could start the academic year with no funding and unable to register at university because the loans company is in crisis and struggling to cope with a deluge of applications.

The Sun leads with the story that a foster child was rescued from the maniac behind the liquid bomb jet plot - as cops found a book by Osama Bin Laden's mentor in a cot.

Last night the astonishing blunder - by the SAME council slammed over the death of Baby P - left MPs horrified. Anti-terror cops had kept Ali under surveillance and seen the foster child.

The Mail demands action against the menace of cowboy wheel clampers.

The industry rakes in almost £1billion a year from motorists parked on private land and has been described as 'legalised mugging'.
Clampers routinely charge £500 penalties, tow away cars, prey on the vulnerable and are often paid on commission, encouraging them to immobilise as many vehicles as possible.

says the paper

A damning report into the collapse of MG Rover claimed yesterday that one of its former directors attempted to destroy evidence after the company went bust in 2005 and another was having a personal relationship with a consultant who was paid £1.6 million by the business.says the Times

The Independent adds that

The four – John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards – awarded themselves "unreasonably large" salary and pensions packages worth £9m each during the five years of their control, after buying the Birmingham-based company from BMW for a nominal £10 in 2000, the 850-page report said. They still stand to make a further £3.2m each from share schemes and dividends.

It leads with A triumph for man, a disaster for mankind as two ships are finishing the first commercial navigation of the fabled North-east Passage. It is an epic moment – but also a vivid sign of climate change in the Arctic


Many of the papers report that Vladimir Putin has dropped the heaviest hint so far that he aims to return to his former post as president in 2012

Speaking to a group of international scholars and journalists at his country residence, the Russian prime minister refused to quash rumours that he would return as president when Dmitry Medvedev finished his first term.
He said the process of deciding who would be president would follow the same pattern as in the run-up to the last election, when Putin effectively called all the shots and picked Medvedev as his successor. An election took place, but the result was a foregone conclusion.

reports the Guardian

The Express reports that Britain will be forced to take in an extra 30,000 ref­ugees a year as part of an EU bid to seize control of our immigration system,

MI6 is to be investigated over the alleged torture of a suspect reports the Times

The Attorney-General has asked the Metropolitan Police to act on concerns over the treatment of a foreign national who was interrogated.