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Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Angela Merkel have all quickly condemned the attack and the wider assault on the press.

What will you, the members on that side of the house, tell your grandchildren one day?" Some believe that the secrecy bill forms part of a wider assault on the freedom of the press in South Africa.

Robert Palmer of Global Witness, an anti-corruption group, says: "The Magnitsky case has opened the door to a wider assault on human-rights abusers".Too far, too fast, too newThe administration was unhappy at first about the bills, arguing that they were unnecessary as the State Department already withheld visas from such people and excessive, because they tie the hands of policymakers.

At a base 20 miles away, senior Army and Marine officers, awaiting orders from Baghdad, met to plan a wider assault on the old town, a warren of alleyways and bazaars surrounding the ancient shrine where hundreds of militiamen have been reported to be holed up.

There is a more general question as to whether the destruction of the unified probation service is a symptom of a wider assault on the public sector and public sector values, and a rewriting of the responsibilities and ethos of state provision in criminal justice.

The WFL reacted by ridiculing the "Spinster Suffrage party" and insisting that a wider assault on social inequity was required.

The measure also includes a wide assault on the power of public -sector unions, including a ban on collective bargaining over benefits, an end to automatic deductions of union dues and the introduction of annual votes on union recognition.

The top commander for the rebels, Murat Karayilan, described the move as an effort to soften relations with Turkish officials, who are mulling whether to carry out a wide assault on sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels from Turkey hidden in the rugged mountains inside Iraq.

The Guardian reported last month that "State conservative groups plan U.S.-wide assault on education, health and tax".

Georgian officials said the country was under wide-scale assault aimed at overthrowing the government.

But the wide-ranging assault on the integrity of the Hewlett-Packard management, they say, is the plaintiffs' best chance.