Monthly Archive: May 2003

So that Iraqi Salam Pax blog is back. Meanwhile, the Spanish are running Umm Qasr, much to the regret of some of its inhabitants. It was meant to be different. The port town of...

I was amused to read that the founder of the pyramid scam known as Scientology, the ever-amusing L Ron Hubbard, visited “Heaven” several trillion years ago and definitively described what he saw: Heaven was...

So I read this account of US soldier Jessica Lynch’s stay in an Iraqi hospital illuminating. According to her doctors, the Iraqi troops had left days earlier. They attempted to deliver her in an...

So I note that trigger-happy Israeli troops fired on a fact-finding convoy that was escorting the parents of Tom Hurndall to the spot where their son was shot in the head while trying to...

So way back in 1992, Wolfowitz and others wrote this in one of their wet dream journals: NATO continues to provide the indispensable foundation for a stable security environment in Europe. Therefore, it is...

A Dunbar man was sentenced today to serve at least 15 years in prison for killing a housemate who had sex with his cat … Prosecutors said the men stabbed Mazujian in the eye...

So it seems like policing Iraq may prove troublesome, and expensive… From “IRAQ: FROM SUMER TO SUDAN”. London: St. Martins Press, 1994″ Churchill was in no doubt that gas could be profitably employed against...

I found this an interesting, if tedious, read. Unidentified elements within the Bush Gang are redacting huge chunks of the joint congressional report on the airplane attacks on the Pentagon and the WTC. Much...

So just as King Bush is getting his (not)victory on, I read about a revenge grenade attack in Fallujah. I note from this article that the occupying US troops barracked within the local (ex)Baath...