This was an interesting article in today’s Jordan Times outlining the Jordan-Iraqi border check procedures that include radiation scans: The most common products containing radioactive elements that enter the border are agricultural goods, as years of warfare have contaminated Iraqi soil. Border officials had to deny entry to Iraqi trucks carrying dates, as their radiation [...]

Here’s a collection of some of my delicious links I’ve been looking at these past few days: – “Ahmadinejad” a film by Oliver Stone: Finally, a movie that will bring together America and Iran’s far right hatred of Oliver Stone. – Young chimp beats college students: And these were Japanese college students! – The 50 [...]

A few of the stories I found interesting these past few days: – UnIslamic Ringtones: A top Islamic body in Saudi Arabia has hosted a stormy debate on controversial issues, including the use of Koranic verses as mobile phone ringtones, newspapers reported Monday. “The scholars were divided on the use of verses from the Koran [...]

It’s strange. The whole world marks 9/11 like an international day of tragedy. For me, every year, 9/11 has come to mean a feeling of sympathy for the 3,000 innocent lives that were lost on that day. But as the years pass on, that feeling has been eroded, if not almost entirely replaced, with the [...]

nuff said… AMMAN — Oil-parched Jordan said Thursday it was due to take delivery, within days, of much-delayed supplies of Iraqi crude oil at preferential rates under a year-old agreement with Baghdad. Jordanian tanker trucks have headed to the border to await the crude that is expected to reach the Zarqa refinery in northeast Jordan [...]

So it’s becoming a bigger story now on the blogosphere, Iraqis in a prison at the Queen Alia Airport, where they are interrogated for hours, whipped by the evil Jordanians, then put in a cage with lions and those who are lucky enough to survive the ordeal are sent back to Iraq to die. It [...]

The Soviets built the Berlin wall to try and keep East Berliners from leaving. Then the Israeli’s built the Seperation wall, to keep suicide bombers out while making a land grab. Then the American’s started building walls to surround Sunni communities in Baghdad. What’s with the world and walls? I thought the metaphor was “building [...]