web-page-parser 0.25 → 1.0.0

data/lib/web-page-parser/parsers/guardian_page_parser.rb

@@ -1,32 +1,29 @@
 module WebPageParser
   class GuardianPageParserFactory < WebPageParser::ParserFactory
-    URL_RE = ORegexp.new("(www\.)?guardian\.co\.uk/[a-z-]+(/[a-z-]+)?/[0-9]{4}/[a-z]{3}/[0-9]{1,2}/[a-z-]{5,200}$")
+    URL_RE = ORegexp.new("(www\.)?(the)?guardian\.(co\.uk|com)/[a-z-]+(/[a-z-]+)?/[0-9]{4}/[a-z]{3}/[0-9]{1,2}/[a-z-]{5,200}$")
     INVALID_URL_RE = ORegexp.new("/cartoon/|/commentisfree/poll/|/video/[0-9]+|/gallery/[0-9]+|/poll/[0-9]+")
     def self.can_parse?(options)
       url = options[:url].split('#').first
       return nil if INVALID_URL_RE.match(url)
       URL_RE.match(url)
     end
-    
+
     def self.create(options = {})
-      GuardianPageParserV1.new(options)
+      GuardianPageParserV2.new(options)
     end
   end
 
-  # BbcNewsPageParserV1 parses BBC News web pages exactly like the
-  # old News Sniffer BbcNewsPage class did.  This should only ever
-  # be used for backwards compatability with News Sniffer and is
-  # never supplied for use by a factory.
-  class GuardianPageParserV1 < WebPageParser::BaseParser
-    ICONV = nil
+  # GuardianPageParserV1 parses Guardian web pages using regexps
+  class GuardianPageParserV1 < WebPageParser::BaseRegexpParser
     TITLE_RE = ORegexp.new('<meta property="og:title" content="(.*)"', 'i')
     DATE_RE = ORegexp.new('<meta property="article:published_time" content="(.*)"', 'i')
     CONTENT_RE = ORegexp.new('article-body-blocks">(.*?)<div id="related"', 'm')
     STRIP_TAGS_RE = ORegexp.new('</?(a|span|div|img|tr|td|!--|table)[^>]*>','i')
+    STRIP_SCRIPTS_RE = ORegexp.new('<script[^>]*>.*?</script>','i')
     PARA_RE = Regexp.new(/<(p|h2)[^>]*>(.*?)<\/\1>/i)
 
     private
-    
+
     def date_processor
       begin
         # OPD is in GMT/UTC, which DateTime seems to use by default
@@ -38,8 +35,51 @@ module WebPageParser
 
     def content_processor
       @content = STRIP_TAGS_RE.gsub(@content, '')
+      @content = STRIP_SCRIPTS_RE.gsub(@content, '')
       @content = @content.scan(PARA_RE).collect { |a| a[1] }
     end
-    
+
+    def filter_url(url)
+      url.to_s.gsub("www.guprod.gnl", "www.guardian.co.uk") # some wierd guardian problem with some older articles
+    end
+
+  end
+
+  # GuardianPageParserV2 parses Guardian web pages using html
+  # parsing. It can parse articles old and new but sometimes has
+  # slightly different results due to it stripping most html tags
+  # (like <strong>) which the V1 parser didn't do.
+  class GuardianPageParserV2 < WebPageParser::BaseParser
+    require 'nokogiri'
+
+    def html_doc
+      @html_document ||= Nokogiri::HTML(page)
+    end
+
+    def title
+      @title ||= html_doc.css('div#main-article-info h1:first').text.strip
+    end
+
+    def content
+      return @content if @content
+      story_body = html_doc.css('div#article-body-blocks *').select do |e|
+        e.name == 'p' or e.name == 'h2' or e.name == 'h3'
+      end
+      story_body.collect { |p| p.text.empty? ? nil : p.text.strip }.compact
+    end
+
+    def date
+      return @date if @date
+      if date_meta = html_doc.at_css('meta[property="article:published_time"]')
+        @date = DateTime.parse(date_meta['content']) rescue nil
+      end
+      @date
+    end
+
+    def filter_url(url)
+      # some wierd guardian problem with some older articles
+      url.to_s.gsub("www.guprod.gnl", "www.guardian.co.uk") 
+    end
   end
+
 end

data/lib/web-page-parser/parsers/independent_page_parser.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+module WebPageParser
+  class IndependentPageParserFactory < WebPageParser::ParserFactory
+    URL_RE = ORegexp.new("www.independent.co.uk/news/.*[0-9]+.html")
+    INVALID_URL_RE = ORegexp.new("www.independent.co.uk/news/pictures")
+    def self.can_parse?(options)
+      return nil if INVALID_URL_RE.match(options[:url])
+      URL_RE.match(options[:url])
+    end
+
+    def self.create(options = {})
+      IndependentPageParserV1.new(options)
+    end
+  end
+
+  # IndependentPageParserV1 parses Independent news web pages,
+  class IndependentPageParserV1 < WebPageParser::BaseParser
+    require 'nokogiri'
+
+    # Independent articles have a guid in the url (as of Jan 2014, a
+    # seven digit integer at the end of the url before the html extension)
+    def guid_from_url
+      # get the last large number from the url, if there is one
+      url.to_s.scan(/[0-9]{6,12}/).last
+    end
+
+    def html_doc
+      @html_document ||= Nokogiri::HTML(page)
+    end
+
+    def title
+      @title ||= html_doc.css('div#main h1.title').text.strip
+    end
+
+    def content
+      return @content if @content
+      content = []
+      story_body = html_doc.css('div.articleContent p')
+      story_body.each do |p|
+        p.search('script,object').remove
+        p = p.text
+        content << p.strip.gsub(/\n+/,' ') if p
+      end
+      @content = content.select { |p| !p.empty? }
+    end
+
+    def date
+      return @date if @date
+      if date_meta = html_doc.at_css('meta[property="article:published_time"]')
+        @date = DateTime.parse(date_meta['content']) rescue nil
+      end
+      @date
+    end
+
+  end
+
+end

data/lib/web-page-parser/parsers/new_york_times_page_parser.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+module WebPageParser
+  class NewYorkTimesPageParserFactory < WebPageParser::ParserFactory
+    URL_RE = ORegexp.new("www\.nytimes\.com/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/.+")
+    INVALID_URL_RE = ORegexp.new("/cartoon/")
+    def self.can_parse?(options)
+      return nil if INVALID_URL_RE.match(options[:url])
+      URL_RE.match(options[:url])
+    end
+    
+    def self.create(options = {})
+      NewYorkTimesPageParserV2.new(options)
+    end
+  end
+
+  # NewYorkTimesPageParserV1 parses New York Times web pages up to January 2014
+  class NewYorkTimesPageParserV1 < WebPageParser::BaseRegexpParser
+    TITLE_RE = ORegexp.new('<nyt_headline [^>]*>(.*)</nyt_headline>', 'i')
+    DATE_RE = ORegexp.new('<meta name="dat" content="(.*)"', 'i')
+    CONTENT_RE = ORegexp.new('<nyt_text[^>]*>(.*)</nyt_text', 'mi')
+    STRIP_TAGS_RE = ORegexp.new('</?(a|strong|span|div|img|tr|td|!--|table|ul|li)[^>]*>','i')
+    PARA_RE = Regexp.new('<(p)[^>]*>(.*?)<\/\1>', 'i')
+    STRIP_INLINE_BLOCK = ORegexp.new('<div class="articleInline.*<div class="articleBody[^>]*>', 'm')
+
+    # We want to modify the url to request multi-page articles all in one request
+    def retrieve_page
+      return nil unless url
+      spurl = url
+      spurl << (spurl.include?("?") ? "&" : "?")
+      spurl << "pagewanted=all"
+      p = super(spurl)
+      # If it fails, reset the session and try one more time
+      unless retreive_successful?(p)
+        self.class.retrieve_session ||= WebPageParser::HTTP::Session.new
+        p = super(spurl)
+      end
+      if retreive_successful?(p)
+        p
+      else
+        raise RetrieveError, "Blocked by NYT paywall"
+      end
+    end
+
+
+    private
+
+    def retreive_successful?(page)
+      if page and page.curl
+        page.curl.header_str.scan(/^Location: .*/).grep(/myaccount.nytimes.com/).empty?
+      else
+        false
+      end
+    end
+
+    def date_processor
+      begin
+        # OPD is in GMT/UTC, which DateTime seems to use by default
+        @date = DateTime.parse(@date)
+      rescue ArgumentError
+        @date = Time.now.utc
+      end
+    end
+
+    def content_processor
+      @content = STRIP_INLINE_BLOCK.gsub(@content, '')
+      @content = STRIP_TAGS_RE.gsub(@content, '')
+      @content = @content.scan(PARA_RE).collect { |a| a[1] }
+    end
+
+  end
+
+  # NewYorkTimesPageParserV2 parses New York Times web pages,
+  # including the new format change in Janurary 2014
+  class NewYorkTimesPageParserV2 < WebPageParser::BaseParser
+    require 'nokogiri'
+
+    def html_doc
+      @html_document ||= Nokogiri::HTML(page)
+    end
+
+    def title
+      @title ||= html_doc.css('h1[itemprop=headline]').text.strip
+    end
+
+    def content
+      return @content if @content
+      @content = []
+      story_body = html_doc.css('p.story-content')
+      if story_body.empty?
+        # old style
+        story_body = html_doc.css('p[itemprop=articleBody]')
+      end
+      story_body.each do |p|
+        @content << p.text.strip
+      end
+      @content
+    end
+
+    def date
+      return @date if @date
+      if date_meta = html_doc.at_css('meta[name=dat]')
+        @date = DateTime.parse(date_meta['content']) rescue nil
+      end
+      @date
+    end
+
+  end
+
+end

data/lib/web-page-parser/parsers/washingtonpost_page_parser.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+module WebPageParser
+  class WashingtonPostPageParserFactory < WebPageParser::ParserFactory
+    URL_RE = ORegexp.new('www\.washingtonpost\.com/.*_story\.html')
+    def self.can_parse?(options)
+      url = options[:url].split('#').first
+      URL_RE.match(url)
+    end
+
+    def self.create(options = {})
+      WashingtonPostPageParserV1.new(options)
+    end
+  end
+
+  # WashingtonPostPageParserV1 parses washpo web pages using html
+  # parsing.
+  class WashingtonPostPageParserV1 < WebPageParser::BaseParser
+    require 'nokogiri'
+
+    # WashPo articles have a guid in the url (as of Jan 2014, a
+    # uuid)
+    def guid_from_url
+      # get the last large number from the url, if there is one
+      url.to_s.scan(/[a-f0-9-]{30,40}/).last
+    end
+
+    def html_doc
+      @html_document ||= Nokogiri::HTML(page)
+    end
+
+    def title
+      @title ||= html_doc.css('h1[property="dc.title"],div#article-topper > h1').text.strip
+    end
+
+    def content
+      return @content if @content
+      story_body = html_doc.css('div.article_body *,div#main-content article *').select do |e|
+        next false if e.attributes['class'].to_s["pin-and-stack"]
+        e.name == 'p' or e.name == 'blockquote'
+      end
+      story_body.collect! do |p| 
+        p.search('script,object').remove
+        p = p.text.strip
+      end
+      @content = story_body.select { |p| !p.empty? }
+    end
+
+    def date
+      return @date if @date
+      # date in url is best source of first published date
+      @date = DateTime.parse(url.scan(/[0-9]{4}\/[0-9]{2}\/[0-9]{2}/).first.to_s) rescue nil
+      return @date if @date
+      # failing that, get DC.date.issued which is actually last updated
+      if date_meta = html_doc.at_css('meta[name="DC.date.issued"]')
+        @date = DateTime.parse(date_meta['content']) rescue nil
+      end
+      @date
+    end
+  end
+end

data/spec/base_parser_spec.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-$:.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../lib')
-require 'web-page-parser'
+require 'spec_helper'
 
 share_as :AllPageParsers do
   it "is initialized with a hash containing :url and :page keys" do
@@ -8,7 +7,7 @@ share_as :AllPageParsers do
     wpp.url.should == @valid_options[:url]
     wpp.page.should == @valid_options[:page]
   end
-  
+
   it "should return an empty array when there is no content available" do
     content = WebPageParser::BaseParser.new.content
     content.should be_a_kind_of Array
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ share_as :AllPageParsers do
     end
 
     it "calculates a hash using the content" do
-      @wpp.instance_eval("@content='different'")
+      @wpp.instance_eval("@content=['different']")
       @wpp.hash.should_not == @hash
     end
   end
@@ -42,16 +41,29 @@ describe WebPageParser::BaseParser do
   it_should_behave_like AllPageParsers
 
   before :each do
-    @valid_options = { 
-      :url => 'http://news.bbc.co.uk', 
+    @valid_options = {
+      :url => 'http://news.bbc.co.uk',
       :page => '<html></html>',
       :valid_hash => 'cfcd208495d565ef66e7dff9f98764da'
     }
   end
 
+end
+
+describe WebPageParser::BaseRegexpParser do
+  it_should_behave_like AllPageParsers
+
+  before :each do
+    @valid_options = {
+      :url => 'http://news.bbc.co.uk',
+      :page => "<html>£</html>"
+    }
+  end
+
+
   it "should decode basic html entities" do
-    bp = WebPageParser::BaseParser.new
-    entities = { 
+    bp = WebPageParser::BaseRegexpParser.new
+    entities = {
       '&quot;' => '"',
       '&apos;' => "'",
       '&amp;' => "&",
@@ -63,5 +75,9 @@ describe WebPageParser::BaseParser do
     end
   end
 
+  it "should accept utf8" do
+    wpp = WebPageParser::BaseRegexpParser.new(@valid_options)
+    wpp.page.should == "<html>£</html>"
+  end
 
 end

data/spec/fixtures/bbc_news/19957138.stm.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">
+
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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/" xml:lang="en-GB">
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+<!-- THIS FILE CONFIGURES SHARED HIGHWEB STATIC ASSETS -->
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+<!-- mapping_news.inc -->
+<!-- THIS FILE CONFIGURES NEWS STATIC ASSETS  -->
+
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+<!-- THIS FILE CONFIGURES VOTE 2012 STATIC ASSETS  -->
+
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+
+    <!-- hi/shared/head_initial.inc -->
+
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+	        <head profile="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/">
+        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
+        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+        <title>BBC News - Gary McKinnon extradition to US blocked by Theresa May</title>
+        <meta name="Description" content="British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US, Home Secretary Theresa May announces, saying his human rights would have been at risk."/>
+                <meta name="OriginalPublicationDate" content="2012/10/16 14:32:09"/>
+        <meta name="UKFS_URL" content="/news/uk-19957138"/>
+                <meta name="THUMBNAIL_URL" content="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63508000/jpg/_63508418_57147666.jpg"/>
+                <meta name="Headline" content="UK blocks McKinnon extradition"/>
+        <meta name="IFS_URL" content="/news/uk-19957138"/>
+        <meta name="Section" content="UK"/>
+        <meta name="contentFlavor" content="STORY"/>
+		                        <meta name="CPS_ID" content="19957138" />
+        <meta name="CPS_SITE_NAME" content="BBC News" />
+        <meta name="CPS_SECTION_PATH" content="UK" />
+        <meta name="CPS_ASSET_TYPE" content="STY" />
+        <meta name="CPS_PLATFORM" content="HighWeb" />
+        <meta name="CPS_AUDIENCE" content="Domestic" />
+        
+            		<meta property="og:title" content="UK blocks McKinnon extradition"/>
+    		<meta property="og:type" content="article"/>
+    		<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19957138"/>
+    		<meta property="og:site_name" content="BBC News"/>
+            			<meta property="og:image" content="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63508000/jpg/_63508419_57147666.jpg"/>
+											        
+				<meta name="bbcsearch_noindex" content="atom"/>
+		
+        <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19957138" />
+       	        		        
+        		
+        <!-- hi/news/head_first.inc -->
+<meta name="application-name" content="BBC News" />
+<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/img/1_0_2/cream/hi/news/bbc-news-pin.png" />
+<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#CC0101" />
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+   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />  
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+		<p class="caption">Theresa May: &quot;A decision to extradite would be incompatible with [Mr McKinnon&#039;s] human rights&quot;</p>
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+                      <p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1">British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US, Home Secretary Theresa May has announced.</p>
+        <p>Mr McKinnon, 46, who admits accessing US government computers but claims he was looking for evidence of UFOs, has been fighting extradition since 2002.</p>
+        <p>The home secretary told MPs there was no doubt Mr McKinnon was &quot;seriously ill&quot; and the extradition warrant against him should be withdrawn.</p>
+        <p>Mrs May said the sole issue she had to consider was his human rights.</p>
+        <p>She said it was now for the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, to decide whether he should face trial in the UK.</p>
+        <p>Mrs May said: &quot;Since I came into office, the sole issue on which I have been required to make a decision is whether Mr McKinnon&#039;s extradition to the United States would breach his human rights.</p>
+        <p>&quot;Mr McKinnon is accused of serious crimes. But there is also no doubt that he is seriously ill.</p>
+        <p>&quot;He has Asperger&#039;s syndrome, and suffers from depressive illness. The legal question before me is now whether the extent of that illness is sufficient to preclude extradition.</p>
+        <p>&quot;After careful consideration of all of the relevant material, I have concluded that Mr McKinnon&#039;s extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with Mr McKinnon&#039;s human rights.&quot;</p>
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+	<a href="/news/correspondents/dominiccasciani/"><span class="byline-name">Dominic Casciani</span></a>	<span class="byline-title">Home affairs correspondent</span>
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+	      <p>The home secretary&#039;s decision to block this extradition is extremely significant. She had an obligation under the Human Rights Act to take into account new evidence about Gary McKinnon&#039;s health. </p>
+        <p>The real twist is that this may be the one and only time she blocks an extradition on human rights grounds because she has now pledged to hand that decision to judges, in line with a recommendation in the review she commissioned. </p>
+        <p>The 2003 extradition deal with the US aimed to speed up extradition and remove political prevarication or interference. </p>
+        <p>And although the home secretary says the deal is broadly sound, she has accepted one of the main criticisms - that there must be a power to block extradition if someone could be tried in the UK. That will be a major change in extradition law. Critics, including many MPs, will say this reform should have come sooner.</p>
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+	</div>      <p id="story_continues_2">Mrs May also said measures would be taken to enable a UK court to decide whether a person should stand trial in the UK or abroad - a so-called forum bar.</p>
+        <p>It would be designed to ensure extradition cases did not fall foul of &quot;delays and satellite litigation&quot;, she said.</p>
+        <p>&quot;I believe extradition decisions must not only be fair, they must be seen to be fair. And they must be made in open court where decisions can be challenged and explained,&quot; she said.</p>
+        <p>&quot;That is why I have decided to introduce a forum bar. This will mean that where prosecution is possible in both the UK and in another state, the British courts will be able to bar prosecution overseas if they believe it is in the interests of justice to do so.&quot;</p>
+        <p>Mr McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/physical_health/conditions/autism2.shtml" >who has been diagnosed with Asperger&#039;s syndrome</a>, a form of autism, faced 60 years in jail if convicted in the US.</p>
+        <p>Mr McKinnon&#039;s mother Janis Sharp was delighted with the decision, saying: &quot;Thank you Theresa May from the bottom of my heart - I always knew you had the strength and courage to do the right thing.&quot;</p>
+        <p>His MP, David Burrowes, who had threatened to resign as a parliamentary aide if Mr McKinnon was extradited, welcomed the decision.</p>
+        <p>Mr Burrowes, Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate in north London, tweeted: &quot;Compassion and pre-election promises delivered today.&quot;</p>
+        <p>BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said it was a dramatic decision - the first time a home secretary had stepped in to block an extradition under the current treaty with the US.</p>
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+    <span style="width:304px;">British computer hacker Gary McKinnon has been fighting extradition to the US for years</span>
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+      <p>Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights group Liberty, said: &quot;This is a great day for rights, freedoms and justice in the United Kingdom.</p>
+        <p>&quot;The home secretary has spared this vulnerable man the cruelty of being sent to the US and accepted Liberty&#039;s long-standing argument for change to our rotten extradition laws.&quot;</p>
+        <p>Mark Lever, chief executive of the National Autistic Society, said he was &quot;delighted that the years of waiting are finally over for Gary and his family&quot;.</p>
+        <p>But Labour former home secretary Alan Johnson criticised the decision and claimed Mrs May had made a decision which was &quot;in her own party&#039;s best interests but it&#039;s not in the best interests of this country&quot;.</p>
+        <p>He said: &quot;Gary McKinnon is accused of very serious offences. The US was perfectly within its rights and it was extremely reasonable of them to seek his extradition.&quot;</p>
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+    <span style="width:304px;">Mr McKinnon&#039;s mother Janis Sharp says her son has been &quot;zombified&quot; while waiting for a decision</span>
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+      <p>Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper asked Mrs May about the implications of her decision: &quot;Clearly other people subject to extradition proceedings or immigration proceedings do cite medical conditions as a reason not to extradite so it would be useful for Parliament and the courts to understand the tests you have applied and whether that will set precedent in other cases.&quot;</p>
+        <p>American lawyer, David Rivkin, a former White House adviser, said the decision was &quot;laughable&quot;, adding, &quot;Under that logic, anybody who claims some kind of physical or mental problem can commit crimes with impunity and get away with it.&quot;</p>
+        <p>US extradition expert Douglas McNabb said the US Attorney&#039;s Office would be furious and he suspected it would ask Interpol to issue a red notice - making other nations aware there was an outstanding arrest warrant for Mr McKinnon in the US - which would mean he could be arrested if he left the UK.</p>
+        <p>The family of terror suspect Babar Ahmad said while they welcomed the decision not to extradite Mr McKinnon, questions had to be asked.</p>
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+	</div>      <p id="story_continues_3">Mr Ahmad was one of five terror suspects, including radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, extradited to the US earlier this month. His co-accused, Talha Ahsan, who was also extradited, was diagnosed with Asperger&#039;s in June 2009, according to a European Court of Human Rights judgement.</p>
+        <p>Both are accused by US authorities of running a pro-jihad website.</p>
+        <p>Mr Ahmad&#039;s family said: &quot;Why within the space of two weeks, a British citizen with Asperger&#039;s accused of computer-related activity is not extradited, while two other British citizens, one with Asperger&#039;s, engaged in computer-related activity are extradited. A clear demonstration of double standards.&quot;</p>
+        <p>US authorities have described Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon&#039;s actions as the &quot;biggest military computer hack of all time&quot; and have demanded he face justice in America.</p>
+        <p>They insisted his hacking was &quot;intentional and calculated to influence and affect the US government by intimidation and coercion&quot;.</p>
+        <p>The Americans said his actions caused $800,000 (£487,000) worth of damage to military computer systems.</p>
+        <p>Mr McKinnon has previously lost appeals in the High Court and the House of Lords against his extradition, but two years ago a High Court judge ruled Mr McKinnon would be at risk of suicide if sent away.</p>
+        <p>Earlier this year Mrs May put the decision on hold to allow Home Office appointed psychiatrists to conduct an assessment.</p>
+        <p>They also concluded Mr McKinnon would be likely to take his own life if he was sent to face trial in the US.</p>
+        <p>Mr McKinnon was arrested in 2002 and again in 2005 before an order for his extradition was made in July 2006 under the 2003 Extradition Act.</p>
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">-16</span> </form> <!--[if lt IE 8]></span><![endif]-->  <h4 class="comments_comment_number secondary_body"><span class="dna-hide">Comment number</span> 132.</h4> <cite class="comments_user_info secondary_body"> <span class="vcard"><span class="comment_username comment_username_205935021915880965" title="Contributor's Username">Brigusser</span></span> <br />  <span class="time" title="Date this contribution was posted">16th October 2012 - 14:25</span> </cite> <div class="comment-text"><div>  <p>Does one sense a bit of a trade off here - we'll deliver Abu Hamza but not McKinnon?<BR /><BR />Probably both the correct decision but there seems to be an element of somewhat differing views on what constitutes a mental health issue worthy of preventing extradition????</p>  </div></div> <div class="dna-comments-comment-footer"> <p class="flag comment_complain_205935021915880965"> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/newscommentsmodule/comments/UserComplaintPage?PostID=114030656&amp;s_start=1" class="popup dna-commentbox-complain-link" title="Complain about this comment"><img src="http://static.bbci.co.uk/modules/comments/2.0.9/images/warning_icon.gif" alt="" />Report this comment<span class="dna-hide"> (Comment number 132)</span></a></p> <p class="comments_link_to_comment"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19957138?postId=114030656#comment_114030656" title="Copy this link to generate a permanent link to this comment">Link to this<span class="dna-hide"> (Comment number 132)</span></a></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </li>    </ul>  <div class="ieclear">&nbsp;</div>   <div class="comments_pagination">    <div id="comment_pagination_page_status"> <p>Comments 5 of 11</p> </div> <ul class="comments_pagination_ul"> <li class="hidden dna-tab-loading show_more_loading"><img src="http://static.bbci.co.uk/modules/comments/2.0.9/img/loader.gif" alt="loading" /></li> <li class="view-all-dna-comments"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19957138?filter=EditorPicks#dna-comments" class="dna-initial-view-more-comments" title=" Editors' Picks">Show more</a></li> </ul>  </div> <div class="ieclear">&nbsp;</div>    </div> <div class="dna-commentbox-logged-in" style="display: none;"> <p class="primary_body dna-commentbox-add-comment-cta"><a href="#dna-comments">Add your comment</a></p> </div>   <div class="dna-user-signin-panel secondary_body dna-anon-commenting-hide">  <div class="dna-commentbox-logged-out">    <p class="id4-cta" id="id4-cta-1"><span class="id4-cta-size-small id4-cta-color-gray id4-cta-small-gray"><a href="https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/id/signin?ptrt=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-19957138&p=comment" class="id4-cta-signin id4-cta-button">Sign in</a><span class="id4-cta-with"> with your BBC iD,</span> or <a href="https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/id/register?ptrt=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-19957138&p=comment" class="id4-cta-register">Register</a> to comment and rate comments</span></p>                                    </div>   <div class="dna-commentbox-logged-out user_signin_box">     <p class="dna-moderation-type secondary_body">  All posts are <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/moderation.shtml#how" class="no-popup" target="_blank">reactively-moderated</a>  and must obey the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/moderation.shtml#house" class="no-popup" target="_blank">house rules</a>. </p>     </div> <div class="dna-commentbox-logged-in dna-logged-in-fragment" style="display: none;">  </div> </div>  </div>   
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+      class="livestats-icon livestats-8">8: </span>'Radical overhaul' needed at BBC</a>
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+    href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20255141"
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+      class="livestats-icon livestats-10">10: </span>Viewpoint: What Chinese women really need</a>
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