Ethiopian troops opened fire and killed five civilian bystanders May 30 after a land mine exploded as their convoy passed through the center of a western Somali town of Belet Weyne. (AP, May 30) As the transition government backed by… Read moreSomalia: Ethiopian troops fire on civilians; AU calls for NATO airlift
The US will face worse attacks than 9-11 if it does not heed al-Qaeda demands, according to a new statement from Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam and the first US citizen to be charged with treason since the… Read more“California al-Qaeda” warns of new attacks
The US military said coalition and Afghan troops killed six Taliban fighters and arrested four in eastern Afghanistan May 30, but a provincial official and residents said the casualties were villagers. The coalition statement did not mention the location in… Read moreAfghanistan: more controversy over civilian casualties
Spain announced May 28 it has arrested 16 suspected of recruiting Islamist fighters for Iraq and North Africa. The 14 Moroccans and two Algerians were alleged to have indoctrinated others with radical Islamic teachings and about “jihad.” Thirteen were arrested… Read moreSpain: more Salafist sweeps; 3-11 defendants end hunger strike
President Bush has announced an expanded regime of sanctions against Sudan, implementing what he called “Plan B” in his April speech at the Holocaust Museum, as an alternative to UN troops. Thirty companies owned or controlled by the Sudanese government… Read moreDarfur: Bush announces sanctions —against the resistance movement!
Cindy Sheehan writes in her public diary on Daily Kos, May 28: I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called “Face” of the American anti-war movement. Especially since… Read moreCindy Sheehan resigns from anti-war movement
From AP, May 28: A suicide car bomber struck a busy Baghdad commercial district Monday, killing at least 21 people, setting vehicles on fire and damaging a nearby Sunni shrine, police and hospital officials said. The blast went off at… Read moreWho is behind relentless Baghdad terror?
Egyptian police arrested three Muslim Brotherhood candidates to the upper house of parliament as they campaigned in the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia May 27, bringing to 63 the number of Brotherhood members detained in the province since Egypt’s largest… Read moreEgypt: more arrests of Muslim Brotherhood
When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI two years ago, we pointed out that he had been the Vatican’s pointman on dialogue with the “Traditionalist” schism that rejects the Vatican II reforms. Now it seems he may be ready… Read moreBenedict XVI moves to restore Latin Mass
Well said. Fortunately the Iraqwarit blog has liberated this text from the New York Times‘ elitist pay-per-view policy. From Paul Krugman‘s column, Memorial Day, May 28: Trust and Betrayal “In this place where valor sleeps, we are reminded why America… Read moreKrugman: Bush squanders soldier’s lives
Colombia’s lower house voted overwhelmingly May 23 to request President Alvaro Uribe “immediately remove for incompetence” Sergio Caramagna, head of the OAS peace mission in the country. Jose Castro Caycedo, the legislator who sponsored the resolution, told the Associated Press… Read moreColombia: paramilitary sex orgy revelations
New Delhi has rushed additional paramilitary forces to Assam following a bombing in Guwahati which left seven dead and 30 injured—apparently the work of the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). Days earlier, the ULFA warned that it would… Read moreIndia: paramilitary troops to Assam after ULFA terror
