It was quite a sight to see former President Bill Clinton do battle with Chris Wallace on Fox News when asked about Osama Bin Laden. The interview was supposed to be about the Clinton Global Initiative and it went like any other interview until Wallace asked whether Clinton had done enough to get Bin Laden. […]

A few months ago I was wondering if Sajida Rishawai, the would be suicide bomber of last year’s Amman bombings, would actually get the death penalty and would it be a just punishment for the crime. Ashraf Al-Akhrass, the groom of the wedding that was attacked, who pleaded with the court back in May to […]

5th Anniversary

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Five years have passed since 9/11 happened, the event that supposedly changed the world as we know it.
This is what I keep hearing all the time and it makes me wonder to what extent such a statement holds true. The world I know hasn’t changed much at all.
Terrorism has been around well before 9/11 […]

On 26 August 2006, soldiers detained Tha’ir Muhsen, 18, from a-Neqora, a village near Nablus , while he was on his way home after registering at a-Najah University , in Nablus .
The soldiers sat him down next to another Palestinian who had been detained. The other fellow told Muhsen that the soldiers had beaten him. […]

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With the recent attack on a group of tourists the definition of terrorism becomes the dominant word of the day. I had an interesting series of comments in my last post on this incident where it was argued that what happened was not an act of terrorism but merely a criminal act of murder and […]

I’m hoping this is just a case of a crazy man acting independently and not affiliated with AlQueda.
A British tourist has been killed and five others wounded when a man opened fire on them in Amman, a Jordanian government spokesman said. The other tourists injured in the attack were two British women, an Australian woman, […]

A few weeks ago there was a big deal made over a Reuters photographer that was fired because of a few fake photos. Suddenly bloggers with a lot of free time on their hands started doing their own professional photoshop investigations, much to my amusement. Well Reuters has just paid for it in Gaza. The […]

I thought I would post the two parts of the documentary “Jenin Jenin” that documents the aftermath of the Jenin Massacre. It’s strange, with these types of films they are either entirely loved or entirely hated. But it’s based entirely on testimonials that are entirely emotional. Filmed in the Jenin refugee camp Palestinian filmmaker Muhammad […]

If you build a better mouse trap the terrorists will build a better mouse…

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Article of Interest: I’m always fascinated with the birth of a meme. A new one recently surfaced amid the vitriolic rhetoric that gets dished out by the neoconservative punditry of the Internet: “Hezbollywood.” Google it and be in awe of its (as of this writing) 131,000 results. I’m almost surprised that Google even bothers to […]

The two IAF MP’s that glorified Zarqawi as a martyr in June and were sentenced rather harshly by the State Security Court recently have received reduced sentences through an appeal at the Cassation Court. Both sentences of 2 and 1.5 years have been reduced to 13 months and 100 JD fines. The MPs were seen […]

All Muslims and/or brown-skinned people should arrive at the airport 6 hours prior to their flight for advanced screenings. For your convenience please follow the “Brown’s Only” signs to the nearest interrogation room.
LONDON - As airport security tightens, checkpoint lines grow and tempers fray amid fears of devastating airborne attacks, more and more Britons are […]

Shirt Reads: The Children of Lebanon

The UN Security Council is set to discuss and vote on a new draft resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
It reportedly calls for a “full cessation of hostilities”, then for a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon “at the earliest”.
It is also said to authorise the deployment […]

I’ve been reading a few articles and several big name blogs that are discussing what I find to be the silliest thing about the war on Lebanon: a bunch of photos that were doctored by a Reuters photographer, more specifically one that added a bit more black smoke to a smoldering building. It’s a perfect […]