From BBC News via Sufi News & World Report, Oct. 11: More than 130 Muslim scholars have written to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders urging greater understanding between the two faiths. The letter says that world peace could… Read moreMuslim scholars reach out to Vatican
At least two people were killed and nearly 20 injured when a bomb exploded inside the revered Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer in India’s western state of Rajasthan Oct. 11. The attack came when the shrine was… Read moreIndia: terror blast at Sufi shrine
As the Great Powers condescendingly admonish Darfur’s guerillas to participate in the peace talks to open in Libya next week, on Oct. 11, some 22 representatives of Darfur rebel groups were stopped by Sudanese government forces on their way to… Read moreSudan detains Darfur rebel leaders; South pulls out of peace deal
None of the media accounts (e.g. London Times, Oct. 12) note the hysterical irony. We suppose Henry Kissinger‘s Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 was even more ironic, but at least his co-winner Le Duc Tho refused to accept the prize…. Read moreOxy oil scion Gore wins Nobel for global warming work
From NJ.com, Oct. 12: Officials investigate crude oil spill PAULSBORO — Coast Guard and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection officials are investigating the spill of at least 2,300 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River from a ship… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Despite the ignorant blather of his brainless liberal apologists that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “not a ‘Holocaust denier’” but merely calls for more research into whether it happened (gee, thanks for raising this subtle distinction), BBC Monitoring notes an… Read moreMahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ann Coulter united in Jew-hatred
From New York Newsday, Oct. 12: Legless man hit by car in Harlem A homeless panhandler with no legs was critically injured yesterday when he was struck by two cars in Harlem, police said. Donald Samuels, 33, broke several bones,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
On the heels of the outcry over the Blackwater massacre, comes another atrocity by a private contractor in Iraq. A particular ugly irony is that this time the victims were members of one of Iraq’s threatened minorities—the Armenians, whose very… Read moreContractors kill Armenian Christians in Iraq
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking to the Association of the United States Army in Washington DC Oct. 10, said the US Army of the future will need to concentrate more on training foreign militaries, mastering other languages and customs,… Read moreRobert Gates: insurgent wars wave of future
Just a week after Baghdad and Ankara made a public show of pledging cooperation against the PKK, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his military staff Oct. 9 for the first time formally approved unilateral incursions into Iraqi territory… Read moreTurkish conspiracy theory: PKK pawn of NATO?
Turkey reacted angrily to the Oct. 10 vote by the House Foreign Relations Committee approving a measure that condemns the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as an act of genocide. Said President Abdullah Gul in… Read moreTurkish “left” supports official revisionism on Armenian genocide?
In several radio interviews Oct. 9, Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe charged the country’s Supreme Court offered benefits including a reduced sentence to imprisoned paramilitary commander José Moncada in exchange for testifying that the president ordered the killing of another incarcerated… Read moreColombia: high court accuses Uribe of obstruction in paramilitary case
