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
A US delegation is headed for Kabul to persuade President Hamid Karzai to approve a program of glyphosate spraying over the opium-producing lands of southeast Afghanistan. The private contractor Dyncorp is to carry out the spraying in cooperation with a… Read moreAfghanistan: Karzai resists glyphosate
Jakob Kellenberger, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said May 24 he was not optimistic about a breakthrough in talks with Iraqi officials to gain access to up to 20,000 held in the country’s prisons. “We are… Read moreICRC still seeks access to Iraq’s prisons
Exiled Somali leaders in Eritrea issued a call to boycott a Mogadishu peace conference scheduled for next month, warning of further violence if it goes ahead. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, leader of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), and Sheikh Sharif… Read moreSomali Islamist leaders voice defiance from Eritrean exile
Interesting. A Pew survey finds that 87% of Muslim Americans polled (just some 1,000 out of the total 2 million-plus) condemn the practice of suicide bombings. But for those under 30, the 13% finding them sometimes justified doubles to 26%…. Read moreMuslim-American views: poll results in eye of beholder
“Agriculture likes immigration bill,” reads the May 21 headline in the Columbus Dispatch and other McClatchy newspapers. The new bill would expand and streamline the guest worker program which has been in place since the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control… Read moreDeadly repression greases “guest worker” program
