By Mohamed Olad Hassan: MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militiamen in control of Somalia’s capital fired guns in the air and cut electricity to makeshift cinemas to prevent people from watching the World Cup, witnesses said.
“As soon as the Islamists took over the security of our city, we thought we would get freedom,” said Adam […]

To Martin Patience who wrote this article on the BBC with the most absurd title I’ve read in a long time.
Interviewing one Sheik who calls Zarqawi a “hero”, a Salafi sheik no less, and then placing “City of martyrs salutes Zarqawi” as the title of the article is such an absurd and misleading statement. Unless […]

…and anyone else this may concern
Zarqawi was a terrorist, simple as that. I donâ??t know what else I can say. Iâ??m thinking of making diagrams and flash cards to spell it out for the people who just donâ??t get it. If you are mourning him or calling him a martyr then you have lost your […]

DETROIT - A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to see a man she met on MySpace.com was detained in Jordan and was headed home Friday, an FBI spokesman said. U.S. officials persuaded Katherine Lester to take the return flight from Amman, FBI Special Agent Robert Beeckman said from the agencyâ??s Detroit office.

Lester […]

Give me a frickin break!!
Recent news reports from the Iraqi capital indicate that radical Islamists are launching a campaign to prohibit the sale of … falafel. Yes, you heard right, falafel.
While this is the sort of news you might expect to hear from a late night stand-up comedian on television, sadly, this is not a […]