The trial of eight Western aid workers -- four Germans, two Australians and two Americans -- is currently in its first phase, held behind closed doors in the presence of 22 religious and legal scholars.
Mr Keith said that a group of westerners including 12 Britons, two Americans and two Australians were abducted in Yemen in 1998, partly in order to gain the release of Abu Hamza's stepson Mohsen Ghailan and five others.
The Boardmans were just two of many Australians being assisted with insurance queries and cash loans by Consul Robin Hamilton, who arrived in Phuket from the Thai capital Bangkok late yesterday.
Opinion polls vary, but somewhere between a half and two-thirds of Australians now say they want a republic.
Iain O'Brien grabbed two wickets, while the returning Mills took two more as the Australians were eventually skittled out with eight balls of the innings remaining.
Veteran prop du Randt has announced he is retiring after becoming only the fourth player to win two World Cups, after Australians Tim Horan, Jason Little and John Eales.
But within the space of 48 hours, Australians now have two medals to celebrate - both of them gold - with one of them in that very same freestyle skiing event.
With debutant Khawaja playing cautiously and skipper Clarke adopting a positive role, they added 65 before two James Anderson wickets derailed the Australians.
It involved a degree of co-operation between the two countries' armed forces that many Australians found uncomfortable.
However, the fledgling careers of two colleagues who until this week were largely unknown to most Australians must now be in doubt.
Michael Hussey came in for Ponting but was caught at midwicket for 10, before Michael Clarke arrived at the crease and he was not out on 38 at the close to leave the Australians poised to make a big score on day two.
England moved to within 40 of the Australians for the loss of seven wickets by stumps on day two, Hutton top-scoring with 82.
But Kallis admitted that the Australians had gained the upper hand after a strong batting performance across the opening two days.
In the past 30 years, Australians have won just five singles titles - Pat Cash one, Pat Rafter two and Lleyton Hewitt two.
India was regarded as the final frontier by the Australians even when they were pulverizing everyone else to a pulp, and encounters between the two sides have had added piquancy ever since, intensified by some very intense on-field disagreements between players, most notably between Harbhajan and Australia's Andrew Symonds at Sydney in 2008.
More than a billion fans in the two cricket-mad countries relish these encounters as much as--perhaps even more than--Australians and Englishmen.
But while the Australians were making history, Namibia bowler Rudi van Vuuren was demonstrating the difference in class between the two sides.
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