The contrast of the romantic drippings of the apparently hugely popular dubbed Turkish soap Gümüs and the criminal bombings in that country yesterday as well as those in Iraq and India which left over 100 dead and many more injured, cannot be brought more into focus than the exclusive and vociferous condemnation of the television …
The BBC reports that the Pakistani political leader Ms. Benazir Bhutto had been killed in a terrorist suicide attack while leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi about an hour ago. My condolences to the Pakistani people for her loss and its barbaric method. When all that is left is the law of force and terrorism …
Mohammed Khalid, that effervescent Islamist MP, wants to gift the five erstwhile Guantanamo detainees BD50,000 (~US$132k) as a “for the suffering and torture they were forced to endure in the US prison camp“. Huh? Oy! Bub! Listen: when we defended their right to a fair trial we didn’t sign up to make them the luminaries …
I don’t even want to start to comment on my anger at this. But watch it yourself and reach your own conclusions. Bruce Shneier via BoingBoing
Suicide attack joke lands man in prison Bahrain, like all countries around the world, is on high alert to make sure that terrorists do not sneak into the Kingdom. Therefore it was understandable, when a passenger, who had arrived at Bahrain airport, approached the immigration official and informed him that his friend, who had arrived …