At least according to this Time news article I ran across: It’s hard to separate the man from the mythology, but recent European intelligence reports reviewed by TIME suggest that al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaeda franchise is expanding far beyond Iraq and that he now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists. Al-Zarqawi […]

You know, you’d think the leftward fringes in this country would be ecstatic about the Iraqi government. Turn outs the current President (soon to be ex-President it would seem) is against the death penalty: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in remarks that he would not sign a death sentence against his ousted predecessor Saddam Hussein […]

This is one of those stories that makes you shake your head and say what idiot did this? And then you are thankful that at least someone learned of the idiot’s mistake. AUSTRALIAN nuclear experts working to prevent terrorists launching a regional “dirty bomb” attack have found large, unsecured sources of dangerous radioactive material in […]

Warriors are not characterized by cowardly acts on innocent people -especially children. The attack on a ferry in the Phillipines illustrates why the Islamacist thugs will never gain the respect of anyone. LAMITAN, Philippines: At least 30 people, including several children, were wounded yesterday in a bomb attack on a ferry believed to have been […]

The NY Time has this article and this picture by Suthep Kritsanavarin on what might be the largest fresh water fish ever caught. Where was that thing hiding? It goes with this enormous shark we posted on a few weeks back.

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Somedays you wonder how you too could make living writing this stuff. From the NY Times we have this story, and this lead from their main page: Some parents of troops killed in Iraq appear as divided as the rest of the nation in their opinions of Cindy Sheehan and the antiwar encampment named for […]

Time magazine came out with an article on Able Danger which is focused on the marginal issue of what the 9-11 commission knew and when did it know it. Personally I want to know what the Able Danger team knew in 2000 and why their efforts to contact the FBI were squashed by legal cowering. […]

The democrat split is coming. I have said many times there is a chance the party doesn’t last past the 2008 election cycle. And it appears this is becoming more likely. In this LA Times commentary Peter Charles Choharis, executive director of the 2004 Democratic Platform Committee, adds his voice to the growing argument inside […]

The hurricane Katrina is bearing down on the US coast, possibly heading straight for New Orleans. The picture below shows how massive and well formed this storm is, which has reached a Category 5. It is amazing this storm has regenerated so quickly and so strongly after hitting southern Florida – it barely slowed it […]