Category: News
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Taliban Gain New Foothold in Afghan City – NYTimes.com
The Taliban bomber calmly parked a white fuel tanker near the prison gates of this city one evening in June, then jumped down from the cab and let out a laugh. Prison guards fired on the bomber as he ran off, but they missed, instead killing the son of a local shopkeeper, Muhammad Daoud, who…
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Kim Jong-il: School days of a tyrant – Asia, World – The Independent
An exiled teacher of Kim Jong-il has revealed how he first met an ‘ordinary’ student who turned into the monster that rid Pyongyang of the disabled – and ordered his entire family killed. Check it out here.
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LA Weekly – Who's Your Daddy? Why John Edwards' Sex Life Is Our Business Too
JOHN EDWARDS’ NATIONALLY TELEVISED confession on ABC’s Nightline this week was absolutely unconvincing and, in the end, rather revolting. “I don’t know who that baby is,” Edwards said when asked if he had, indeed, fathered the young child of Rielle Hunter. That baby? Haven’t we heard that before? You know, like when Big Bill referred…
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Bigfoot discovery press conference on Friday – Boing Boing
Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo writes about the Bigfoot body purported to be discovered in the woods in Northern Georgia Check it out here.
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Stepfather in a torture mess
The pastor, who spoke to Daily Sun had this to say, “I am the shepherd of the church. I do repair handsets, so one of my members gave me a handset. I told him to return it or face the consequences. The boy dared me and could not return the handset. So, I got angry…
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Local Idiot To Post Comment On Internet
In a statement made to reporters earlier this afternoon, local idiot Brandon Mylenek, 26, announced that at approximately 2:30 a.m. tonight, he plans to post an idiotic comment beneath a video on an Internet website. “Later this evening, I intend to watch the video in question, click the ‘reply’ link above the box reserved for…
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Iraq Banks Billions in Surpluses, GAO Says – washingtonpost.com
Iraq’s oil income will more than double this year, even as Baghdad continues to spend only a small percentage of its own money on reconstruction and services while it banks billions in surplus funds, according to projections by U.S. government auditors. Between 2005 and 2007, only 10 percent of Iraq’s expenditures went toward reconstruction, with…
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A Subversive Soap Roils Saudi Arabia – washingtonpost.com
And then, there’s that husband. The blue-eyed, blond Muhannad, played by Kivanc Tatlitu, a 24-year-old Turkish actor and model, is tall, handsome, romantic, respectful and treats his wife, Noor — the title character — as both a love object and an equal. “Saudi women fantasize about what they’re lacking,” said Amira Kashgari, an assistant linguistics…
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Journalists Say China Is Not Living Up To Openness Pledge – washingtonpost.com
Behind the scenes, their bosses on the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games are busy preparing daily news conferences and field trips to showcase all that China has to offer. There are lectures on how to protect the giant panda, briefings on the safety of Olympic Village food and opportunities to witness the gleaming urban…
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The World – Why China Has the Torch – 2008 Olympics and Human Rights – NYTimes.com
“One World, One Dream,” is the official motto of the Beijing Olympics that open Friday, but the world has become considerably more complicated since the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Summer Games to China seven years ago. That was long before China’s crackdown on Tibet this spring, before its support for the government of…
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Teen needs 300 stitches after knife and battle-ax attack – Salt Lake Tribune
Two men were booked into the Salt Lake County jail Tuesday on suspicion of aggravated assault after they allegedly attacked a teen with a knife and a four-edged medieval battle ax. The pair attacked the victim at his Kearns home around 4:30 a.m. after a text-messaging squabble over a woman, according to probable cause…
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German Officials Dig Up Neo-Nazi Grave to Remove Swastika Flag | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 30.07.2008
German officials said on Wednesday, July 30, that they had dug up a neo-Nazi’s grave to remove a swastika flag that had been draped over the coffin. The Nazi-style burial of Friedhelm Busse on Saturday in Passau in south-eastern Germany ended in violence at the cemetery and a mid-town rampage where neo-Nazis punched a Mongolian…
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Is Afghanistan a Narco-State? – NYTimes.com
Over the next two years I would discover how deeply the Afghan government was involved in protecting the opium trade — by shielding it from American-designed policies. While it is true that Karzai’s Taliban enemies finance themselves from the drug trade, so do many of his supporters. At the same time, some of our NATO…
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International Crisis Group – James Lyon in Tribunal Update (IWPR)
What does a war crimes indictee on the lam do in his spare time? Well if your name is Radovan Karadzic, you grow your beard, wear your hair bundled in a ponytail atop your head and become a doctor specialising in alternative medicine. And along the way he found – according to Serbian media –…
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Bosnian Serb Captured; Sought for War Crimes – washingtonpost.com
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader indicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, was captured in Serbia on Monday. The arrest ends a decade-long manhunt that had repeatedly frustrated his Western pursuers and left festering one of the most murderous chapters…
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Me and My Girls – The Night of the Gun – David Carr – NYTimes.com
Here is what I deserved: hepatitis C, federal prison time, H.I.V., a cold park bench, an early, addled death. Here is what I got: the smart, pretty wife, the three lovely children, the job that impresses. Here is what I remember about how That Guy became This Guy: not much. But my version of events…
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The Long War of Genaro García Luna – NYTimes.com
photos by Anthony Suau for The New York Times When Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s top police official, arrived in Tijuana in January, the city was in the middle of a storm of violence that he found, as he put it to me with clipped understatement soon after his visit, “surprising.” First, three local police officers…
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Corrections – NYTimes.com
The mother subsequently admitted that she had exaggerated injuries she said had been sustained by the boy during an attack by governing party militia. In multiple interviews, she said that youths backing President Robert Mugabe had thrown her son to the concrete floor — and she still says that event did occur. Check it out…
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Police spoil fun of ‘king of ladies’
He said: “My problem in life is women. A he goat is better than me. I don’t know whether it is a curse on me, when I see a beautiful woman, it would look as if I will die if I don’t sleep with her. I must say that is what pushed me into robbery.”…