MOSCOW, Aug 15 – Russia is home to up to 50,000 skinheads, well over half the total worldwide, a Russian human rights group said in a report published Monday and quoted by the Interfax news agency. Throughout Russia 35 five major skinhead groups operate, mostly in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and at least seven parties […]
Les mer»En forklaring: «Osama bin Laden is a hero in the Islamic view,» said Mohamoud Nur, a Somali social worker, seeking to explain the draw of radical Islam among the 150,000 Somalis in London. NYT
Les mer»I drømmeland: «In Iran,» President Bush himself declared in a speech back in November 2003, «the demand for democracy is strong and broad.» Dream on. Far from being on the brink of democracy, Iran is now on the brink of becoming the single biggest threat to democracy in the world. Niall Ferguson
Les mer»JERUSALEM, Aug. 12 – A consortium of wealthy Americans has put up $14 million to compensate Jewish settlers for their Gaza Strip greenhouses, and the facilities will be handed over to the Palestinians as soon as the Israelis leave, participants in the deal said Friday. The unusual arrangement was put together by James D. Wolfensohn, […]
Les mer»Nedslående å høre på norske kommentarer til Blairs antiterror-tiltak. Både for det lave kunnskapsnivået, ønsketenkningen og konsensus-tyranniet. Det er en del av den mentale beredskapen å følge med i de landene hvor terroren har rammet. Plutselig er det tillatt å si ting som tidligere var utenkelig. Kadafi Zaman skriver idag i VG om at Spania […]
Les mer»Bagdads borgermester ble avsatt med våpenmakt idag. Mellom 50 og 120 væpnede menn jaget ut den sittende ordføreren, Alaa al-Tamimi, og erstattet ham med Hussein al-Tahaan, fra Badr-militsen. Militsen tilhører SCIRI, Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Det er et svært dårlig tegn. Shia-militsene har gjort seg stadig mer gjeldende den siste tiden. Det […]
Les mer»ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish police detained two Syrians on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, including one believed to be a go-between for the terrorist network and a Turkish cell that carried out deadly 2003 bombings in Istanbul. News of the detentions came after more than 5,000 Israelis on five cruise ships were diverted from Turkish […]
Les mer»Salman Rushdie har skrevet en roman om en ung, sky muslimsk gutt i Kashmir som under veiledning av en radikal skriftlærd ender opp som terrorist. «Shalimar the Clown» utkommer neste måned, og er allerede kandidat til årets Bookerpris. Set in the disputed state of Kashmir, the tale of love and revenge is sure to cause […]
Les mer»The man responsible for policing the City of London believes it it only a matter of time before terrorists launch an attack on iconic targets in the UK’s financial heartland. James Hart, Commissioner of the City of London Police, told the Financial Times that there had been «hostile reconnaissance» of the City on several occasions […]
Les mer»Insentiver: De 72 jomfruene som venter selvmordsbomberen i paradis burde i alle fall kunne gi en pekepinn om at de vestlige bombemennene ikke tenker på utenrikspolitikk i det de utløser sprengmekanismen. Og kanskje man derfor burde begynne å lete etter forklaringer andre steder enn i utenrikspolitiken. Herman Willis
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