With the word’s attention elsewhere, a violent confrontation between security forces and jihadis in Bangladesh. From India Monitor, March 7: Dhaka: Wanted terrorist and Islamist leader Siddiqul Islam better known as Banglabhai, who founded the jihadi organisation Jagrata Muslim Janata… Read moreBangladesh: jihadi arrested, guns blazing
Rumsfeld exploits the carnage in Iraq to score points against Iran, even as he scolds the media for daring to actually report it. How does he keep a straight face? From Bloomberg, March 7: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today… Read moreRumsfeld accuses Iran, blasts media
Great propaganda for the right-wing Human Events Online. This from Robert Spencer’s “Jihad Watch” column, March 7. Our editorial interjections added. Last Friday afternoon, a student named Mohammed Taheri-azar drove an SUV onto the campus of the University of North… Read moreJihad in Chapel Hill?
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, March 6: Cindy Sheehan took another bust for the anti-war cause Monday. She was cuffed and forcefully dragged away from the plaza in front of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where… Read moreCindy Sheehan supports Iraqi women
As a war of words breaks out between Hamid Karzai and Pervez Musharraf over accusations of Afghan insurgents using Pakistani territory as a staging ground, Islamabad broaches actually fencing off the border the way Pat Buchanan wants to fence off… Read morePakistan threatens to fence off Afghan border
They must be pretty bored out there in Ohio. From AP, March 3: Authorities shut down four buildings at Ohio University after a police officer noticed a sticker that said “this bike is a pipe bomb” before finding out the… Read moreVelophobia in Ohio
Several thousand Puerto Ricans marched down Roosevelt Avenue in San Juan on Feb. 26 to protest raids on the homes of independence activists by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Feb. 10 and the shooting death of fugitive… Read morePuerto Rico: march against FBI terror
From Amnesty International, Feb. 28: The recent spate of killings of civilians is a serious and deliberate breach of international humanitarian law, Amnesty International said today in response to reports of killings of civilians attributed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces… Read moreColombia: Amnesty blasts FARC
The conventional wisdom is that Libya’s Mommar Qadaffi is defanged and domesticated. Recent events, however, indicate a strategic tilt back towards the bellicose on the part of the savvy despot. A cabinet shake-up favoring the hardliners comes on the heels… Read moreLibya tilts to hardliners, threatens Italy
From the London Times, March 5: THE war in Iraq is her father’s business but Elizabeth Cheney, the American vice-president’s daughter, has been given responsibility for bringing about a different type of regime change in Iran. Cheney, a 39-year-old mother… Read moreCheney daughter leads Iran “regime change” campaign
Freedom’s on the march. From BBC, March 6: Amnesty International has said that thousands of detainees held by the multinational forces in Iraq are still being denied their basic rights. The group said the lessons of the Abu Ghraib prison… Read moreIraq: Amnesty blasts continued torture and detention
From Bloomberg, March 5: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Peter Pace said Iraq isn’t on the brink of civil war and that there isn’t any deadline for withdrawing American and coalition troops from the country. While acknowledging that Iraq… Read moreGen. Pace: no civil war in Iraq —but US troops not going anywhere
