A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients – a radical Egyptian sheik – to his terrorist disciples on the outside. The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the case of Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, […]
Les mer»(An)Israeli official said troops would not retaliate after some 50 mortar bombs and rockets hit settlements in Gaza.(…) There were no casualties in the attacks by militants who have refused to participate in Abbas’s ceasefire gesture, and plans for him to reconvene with Sharon next week at the Israeli leader’s desert ranch re2_kommentared in place. […]
Les mer»Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired three security chiefs on Thursday after militants, defying his ceasefire with Israel, launched mortar bombs at Jewish settlements and gunmen raided a Palestinian jail. A Palestinian security official said Abdel-Razek al-Majaydeh, public security chief for the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian Authority police chief Saeb al-Ajez and Omar Ashour, commander […]
Les mer»* The Diplomad gir seg. Denne bloggen drives av skap-republikanere i det amerikanske utenriksdepartementet og har levert glitrende satirer derfra siden august 2004. En lovende arvtager til The Diplomad er New Sisyphus. * Steve Silver er både journalist og blogger. I denne artikkelen tar han for seg forholdet mellom tradisjonelle medier og blogger. (Lenke via […]
Les mer»«The state of Israel has been in existence for 56 years,» a UN spokesman said, «Yet in all that time, we’ve only managed to condemn them 123 times. That’s not even three times for every year that Israel has been in existence.» Secretary General Kofi Annan said, «There were so many reasons that we could […]
Les mer»North Korea on Thursday announced for the first time that it has nuclear arms and rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying it needs the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States. The communist state’s pronouncement dramatically raised the stakes in the two-year-old nuclear confrontation and posed a grave challenge to […]
Les mer»Female interrogators repeatedly used sexually suggestive tactics to try to humiliate and pry information from devout Muslim men held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a military investigation not yet public and newly declassified accounts from detainees. The prisoners have told their lawyers, who compiled the accounts, that female interrogators […]
Les mer»Nearly two dozen Russian lawmakers who proposed that Jewish groups be outlawed must go on trial, human rights activists have said in a letter addressed to parliament and the prosecutor general’s office. The Russian nationalists’ demand could not go unpunished, and the 20 lawmakers in the 450 seat chamber must be stripped of their immunity […]
Les mer»8.2: Time to close the day. Takknemlig for innspill/reaksjoner. Skal forsøke å svare mer. Men noen ganger er tonen slik at det ikke innbyr. En merkelig foreteelse: behovet for å veie fenomener på en verdiskala. Å stemple noe som godt eller dårlig. Dette er helt plagsomt i utenriksdekningen, som når Tveit, Waage og desslike skal […]
Les mer»09.02: Det blir mye tjat, som dekker over det vesentlige, som dette: NATO officials last June agreed to form a mission in Iraq to train 1,000 Iraqi officers annually, but the alliance has not yet raised enough staff for formal training to commence. NATO has sent about 80 of a planned 300 military officers to […]
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