From the Chicago Sun-Times, July 14: Military investigators said they proposed disciplining the prison commander at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because of abusive and degrading treatment of a suspected terrorist that included forcing him to wear a bra, dance with another… Read moreRitual humiliation at Gitmo
Lebanon’s deputy prime minister and defense minister Elias Murr survived a car bombing July 12 which left a bodyguard dead and several injured. The bomb was placed in car parked along the route of his motorcade in a Beirut suburb…. Read moreConspiracy behind latest Lebanon blast?
The conspiranoid site Prison Planet has picked up on a BBC Radio 5 report from the evening of July 7, the same day as the London attacks, in which Pete Power, a former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism official and now managing… Read more7-7 anomalies emerge
Bad news for Nuristan, the remote and isolated region of Afghanistan’s central mountains, known until just over a century ago as Kafiristan (land of the infidels) because of the survival of the ancient Indo-European nature religion there. The region straddles… Read moreOsama bin Laden in Kafiristan?
We get around 35,000 hits per month, and have around 2,000 e-mail subscribers. Since we announced our summer fund drive we have received exactly six donations. As we have explained, we seek no foundation support because we believe in reader… Read moreWW4 REPORT fund drive failing miserably
The new peace deal in Sudan, ending a 22-year civil war in which two million people lost their lives, took effect July 9, when Col. John Garang of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) was sworn in as Sudan’s first… Read moreSudan peace deal signals regional re-alignment
Al-Jazeera reported July 6 that Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, spiritual mentor of Iraq’s al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been arrested in Jordan, after a brief period of being free under close surveillance. He was freed following his acquittal on… Read moreZarqawi breaks with mentor?
What a strange twist of fate. It seems the Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan are apparently using Pakistan, key regional US ally, as a staging ground. This from Pakistan’s Daily Times, July 12: Six more Pakistani fighters arrested in Afghanistan *… Read morePakistan staging ground for Afghan insurgency
Meanwhile, the London terror, which has shocked the world, is roughly equivalent to your average bad day in Iraq, as TruthOut reminds us. 23 Killed in Bombing at Baghdad Recruiting Center By John F. Burns The New York Times Monday… Read moreIraq terror continues
This sucks. Are we to assume that the Sharon Mall is named for the incumbent prime minister? Maybe the bombers were seeking some poetic justice. From TruthOut: Suicide Bomber Kills Self, 2 Others at Israeli Mall The Associated Press Tuesday… Read moreIsrael: suicide blast at Sharon Mall
A friend writes on the Car Free Cities list: Terrorism, Transit and Public Safety: Evaluating The Risks In 2002 according to statistics 1,000,000 people were killed by cars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_accident For 2003, 2004 and 2005 the numbers are (will be) higher… Read moreStatistics: cars worse than terrorism
Just what we needed to hear. The world stands by as massive ethnic cleansing—perhaps genocide—continue in Darfur. Now we are told of a similar crisis in Mauritania, which hasn’t even come to the world’s atttention. This from Johannesburg’s Business Day,… Read moreEthnic cleansing in Mauritania
