BAGHDAD, Iraq — An American freelance journalist was found dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday. Police said Steven Vincent had been shot multiple times after he and his Iraqi translator were abducted at gunpoint hours earlier. Iraqi police in Basra said Vincent was abducted along with his female […]
Les mer»MOSCOW, Aug 2 – Just 22 percent of Russians support the war against Chechen separatists and a less than a third think that the Kremlin will manage to end the conflict soon, according to polls published Tuesday in the Izvestia newspaper. (afp)
Les mer»It can’t happen here: In the Trondelag we were a universe away from the Middle East, from the clash of civilisations that some people seem so anxious to have, from bottles of explosive with nails stuck to them and from Paddington Green police station. Up there Heckler & Koch are probably a pair of Arctic […]
Les mer»Nina Witoszek i Dagbla-magasinet (ikke på nett): «Hvor lenge skal du snakke med ondskapen? Før du bekjemper den, og til og med går til krig? Jeg er overbevist om at Europa og FN skulle ha grepet inn mot serberne mye tidligere. De snakket og snakket mens hundre tusener døde.»
Les mer»Døgnet strekker ikke til mot alt som skjer. Jeg leste ikveld høyt fra Ringenes herre. Tolkien/Høverstad bruker uttrykket «tidehverv», et ord som fullstendig har forsvunnet fra det norske språk. Mon tro om det ikke passer på vår tid? Det skjer mange ting som er helt banebrytende. Terroren er ikke one of those things. Den har […]
Les mer»Liverpool: An A-level student with ambitions to be a lawyer has been murdered with an axe-blow to the head in what appears to have been a racist attack. Anthony Walker, an 18-year-old black man, had his head split open with the axe by a man as he waited for a bus with his white girlfriend […]
Les mer»CAIRO, July 30 – Egyptian security briefly detained senior members of the opposition Kefaya (Enough) Movement on Saturday during a protest against the nomination of President Hosni Mubarak for a fifth 6-year presidential term. The protest, during which police beat protesters with batons and manhandled journalists, comes a day after Mubarak submitted his nomination papers […]
Les mer»A Pakistani who led a mass prayer ceremony for one of the London suicide bombers at his ancestral village in the Punjab has been arrested as part of President Pervez Musharraf’s anti-terrorism clampdown. Molvi Abdul Rehman, 30, was detained after he organised a ritual service in honour of Shehzad Tanweer, the 22-year-old Briton whose parents […]
Les mer»London-Oslo: Flere menn av somalisk herkomst sjekkes nå av norsk politi for mulige kontakter til det samme terrornettverket som sto bak bombeattentatene i London … VG er kjent med at Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste (PST) er i ferd med å nøste opp en lang rekke spor i det somaliske miljøet. Fra før sitter en norsk-somalier varetektsfengslet i […]
Les mer»På dager som denne lokker sjøen og svaberg. Det forsvinner for mange ideer som ikke skrives ned. Mark Steyn har helt rett: Regn ikke med å fortsette å leve koselige liv. Leste i Weekendavisen om den tyske rettsfilosen Carl Schmitt, som kontaminerte seg for ettertiden ved å levere begrunnelser av nazistenes statsoppfatning. Men som likevel […]
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