How else can this be explained? ARBIL, Iraq, March 17 (Reuters) - Kurds are digging a huge trench around Arbil to help prevent attacks like last month's twin suicide bombings that killed 117 people in the northern Iraqi city, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday. "We...
Media reports coming from Kosovo uniformly refer to what is going on as "inter-ethnic violence" or "clashes." That is nothing but a transparent attempt to spin the situation and pin the blame anywhere but on the real culprits: Albanian mobs, organized and instigated...
Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday described the U.S. occupation of Iraq as "a fiasco" and suggested American voters should follow the example set by Spain and change their leadership by supporting Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts for...
Terrorist attacks in Europe have been numerous and ongoing, but the sheer scale of Spain's "3/11" and the concomittant carnage are new and shaking. Spain is frightened -- and lashing out. Remember how badly the US needed to act, to do something, practically anything,...
With love to George, Dick, Donald, Paul and Doug From Osama and the gang. Billmon is on a roll....
How refreshing. A politician displaying consistency and adherence to principle. In response to pressure from Bush " not to yield to pressure from al Qaeda by pulling their troops from the coalition occupying the turbulent country," Zapatero responds: "I will listen to...
In my last post I mentioned Michael Scott Doran's article "The Saudi Paradox." For a more complex, though not necessarily contradictory view of the Saudi power struggle there's Robert Baer's Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude. Baer,...
From TechCentralStation: El Cid has risen from his tomb, he's parted with Ximene, His people, whose bright honor still has never suffered stain, Now run from battle, hide their heads: he is ashamed of Spain. Oh God, please stop!
Monday's Washington Post featured an article titled "'Democratic' Frenzy in the Arab World," which claims that U.S. aggression in the region is already reaping desirable political changes. A bit premature, I'd say, and maybe fundamentally misguided. As mentioned on...
Chris Deliso fills us in on Dubya's new TV action series, brought to you by the folks behind Benny Hinn. Imagine a cross between Get Smart and the Crusades.
