Daily Archive: May 20, 2002

Weird echoes of the last time a car bomb removed an enemy of Ariel Sharon. This time, a car bomb in Beirut killed the son of the leader of an anti-Israel group, the Popular...

So like pretty much every regular military commander before him faced with a guerilla war (in this case, commanding the Brits in Afghanistan against the “Al Qaeda/Taliban “AQT”) Brigadier Roger Lane has complained that...

So this klepto steals a billion dollars of art, and will get a pretty light sentence. Admittedly, his chances improved because his mother destroyed all the artwork evidence. Not many people (except dotcom CEOs)...

This is a really especially well written article from Charles Glass, the Middle East writer. He points out that Arafat has survived military actions against him by an array of Middle Eastern leaders. Over...