all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
This is a great article about the split in the Palestinian Authority between the older Arafat-aligned clique and the younger, go-for-broke types. With all the disagreements between Nationalists and Fundamentalist Islamists, it’s unsettlingly like...
So this is the Helmand Restaurant in North Beach, owned by one of the brothers of the new Afghan boss, Karzai. Earlier here.
Good backgrounder on Mullah Omar: As part of the Taliban’s war on decadence, Omar had banned all forms of music, but riding in his SUV he liked to pop in a CD of Saraji,...
Second part of that ecstasy tourism book, this time they’re in Cape Town, South Africa. And a review. I asked Sophie what she did for a living. “Well, Mark’s an accountant,” she announced with...
[The priest] replaced his vanity license tag FRTHOM on his 2000 Jeep Cherokee when he traveled to his Bourbon Street condo to pick up drugs.
Joining the dots about 9/11 is becoming easier. This article reveals: UNOCAL, a Texan oil company, lavishly entertained Taliban Mullahs back in 1997, and promised to start paying them inducements in order to close...