The film later became The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, directed by Julien Temple.. Armed gangs roamed Haiti yesterday, stealing food from the hungry and hope from entire communities as the poorest country in the Western hemisphere struggled with the aftermath of Hurricane Jeanne. The storm’s death toll is now feared to be at least 2,300, and that figure may yet rise appreciably. Hurricanes have so far killed 70 in Florida this year ­ a bad enough statistic until one turns to Haiti, where more than 5,000 have died in freak weather and the ensuing floods since May. A total of 300,000 people are now homeless in the country’s north-west province alone. Hundreds were yesterday being added to shallow, mass graves, one of the few acts that was not being actively opposed by armed gangs.

But gunmen were stealing food from Haitians outside aid distribution centres as UN troops were struggling to maintain order. The secretary general of the Haitian Red Cross, Berthony Marlet, said additional security was badly needed. He had heard children crying for help as gunmen entered their homes to rob them of newly distributed food. “Gunmen have attacked residents who just got assistance and now they are attacking humanitarian convoys. We definitely need more security on the ground,” Mr Marlet said.Late on Friday, UN troops from Argentina fired smoke grenades as crowds of flood victims tried to break into a schoolyard where Care International was giving grain and water to an orderly line of women. About 500 men, women and children outside the school tried to charge a gate, fled the smoke, but returned in surges once the air cleared. “We need everything ­ bread, clothes, clean water, food,” said Mosau Alveus, 25, who waited hours from dawn and got just one bag of grain.Images from the north of the country, in particular from the city of Gonaives, show flooded roads and people struggling through knee-deep mud in which lie the corpses of animals and humans.

A final meeting was arranged at the Holiday Inn in Brent Cross on Friday. Two of the packages were received by Mr McAuliffe’s brothers.. Four men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences following a sting operation organised by a Sunday newspaper, police said last night. The fourth man was arrested later at his north London home.The sting was set up after a News of the World reporter, posing as a “Muslim extremist”, infiltrated a gang which was allegedly trying to buy radioactive material for an unnamed Saudi Arabian man.The newspaper’s investigations editor, Mazher Mahmood, went undercover after claiming to have received a tip-off that a Saudi sympathetic to “the Muslim cause” was willing to pay £300,000 for a kilogram of powerful, radioactive “Red Mercury”. He was being questioned at Luton police station.A total of 33 improvised explosive devices have been posted since 3 September to addresses in Blackpool, Colchester, Luton and Harpenden, Hertfordshire. A 32-year-old man being hunted over a series of letter bombs posted to homes across England was arrested yesterday morning.
Justin McAuliffe was arrested on the A6 Bedford to Luton road yesterday morning in the village of Wilstead.He went missing from his Bedford bedsit at the beginning of this month and was named as the man thought to be responsible for a campaign of dangerous letters that were sent to 33 houses across Essex, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire and London.The suspect was spotted by a civilian worker from Bedfordshire Police yesterday as she drove to work. Earlier this month, Trooper Kevin Williams was charged by the CPS with murdering Hassan Said Dayr, after his commanding officer refused to allow a court martial.Two courts martial have also been ordered, involving four Royal Regiment of Fusiliers soldiers who allegedly ill-treated Iraqi prisoners, and the case of Private Alexander Johnson, of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who allegedly crippled a 13-year-old Iraqi boy in an accidental shooting..

A civilian named as Zaher Sabti Zaher is also thought to have died in the incident, but it remains unclear whether anyone will be prosecuted for his death.CPS lawyers will be considering suggestions that having body armour would not have saved Sgt Roberts’s life. The prosecution involves allegations that his colleagues failed to properly follow Army procedures after the incident.The case is one of 11 allegedly unlawful killings and abuse cases involving British troops, including the alleged murder of hotel receptionist Baha Mousa and abuse of seven hotel staff and co-owners.It is thought at least two of the cases will also be given to the CPS, amid growing doubts about the ability of the military system to prosecute difficult cases Three prosecutions are already under way. An Army officer and four soldiers are facing a criminal trial over the death of Sergeant Steven Roberts in an alleged friendly-fire incident in Iraq in March last year.
After an 18-month inquiry by military police and Army lawyers, it is understood that the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, has decided to hand the case over to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration.Sgt Roberts was killed on 24 March, during an incident at a checkpoint near Basra, after being told to hand over his body armour to a colleague.It is alleged that Sgt Roberts died in crossfire after a member of his unit tried to shoot an Iraqi who was about to assault him. A spokeswoman said: “It serves as a rare insight into the mind of a master at work and we think it will be of huge interest to fans of Patrick O’Brian.”. Just 65 handwritten pages were left and these will be published by HarperCollins on 4 October as The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey.But Mr Tolstoy said publication has been arranged without the agreement of the estate’s six beneficiaries.