Another American has been gunned down in Riyadh. No details yet. The last one like this was Tuesday. Last Sunday, a BBC cameraman was shot and his reporter colleague critically wounded. That's just this week. One might wonder if there is a pattern developing.

Sadly, No! makes fun of the warbots at the Corner and InstaStatist by highlighting their now-embarrassing excitement over the State Department's 2003 report on terrorism that turned out to be a lie grossly wrong. Oops! Rahul Mahajan also has some apropriately...

Mahdi Army guerillas appear to be making a concerted effort to destroy Iraqi police stations in hit and run attacks:Police in this Euphrates river town, 10 miles south of Baghdad, called for help from American forces when they came under attack. But the Americans...

AP reports:Addressing advice the White House got suggesting torture might be allowed for some terrorist interrogations, President Bush said Friday he ordered U.S. officials to act consistent with law and international treaties. "What I authorized was staying within...

Grand Kremlin Palace. Moscow. 6/1/88 Gorbachev did. Lew Rockwell comments:I still remember the horrified faces of George H.W. Bush and his consigliere, James Baker, when the Berlin Wall came down. There followed a few bad years for the US superstate, with no foreign...

From SignOnSanDiego:The yellow ribbon tied around the tower of the County Administration Center has faded. Wind, rain and pollution, especially from last fall's wildfires, have taken their toll on the salute to U.S. troops. County supervisors installed the...

Shiite gunmen seized a police station in the holy city of Najaf and held it for two hours Thursday in the first outbreak of fighting since an agreement to end weeks of bloody clashes between U.S. troops and militia forces. Four Iraqis were killed and 13 were injured,...

BBC reports: Iraq's new Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban has reportedly said that all coalition advisers will leave Iraqi ministries after the 30 June handover. Quoted by the UK's Financial Times, he said that the ministry would reassert full control over the country's...

Here's a bizarre post by a person named Clayton Cramer that I wandered across. It's titled "The Sheer Injustice Of It!" and he has linked an article about some lawyer who claims to be representing Saddam Hussein making allegations that the US has tortured Saddam while...

Mark at Rafah Kid Rambles: The Guardian today has a story about Sharon losing his majority after two ministers quit in protest at his plan to pull Jewish settlers out of the Gaza Strip. Sharon looks as if he is battling heroically with the far right to withdraw from...