Monthly Archives: October 2009
Middle East: Religion vs. Extremism
Score two victories for religious common sense over irrational hatred.
1) Patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite Church lashes out at Hizbullah
2) ‘Waqf quietly pleased at Salah’s arrest’ Continue reading
Life sentence for Rwandan war criminal
MONTREAL — A Canadian judge has imposed the toughest sentence possible on a man convicted of committing atrocities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, described as the worst possible crime a human being can commit… Continue reading
Filed under Conflict
Iraq seeks UN inquiry into blasts
(AlJazeera.net) Iraq’s foreign minister has called for a UN inquiry into Sunday’s twin suicide bombings in Baghdad which left at least 155 people dead and hundreds more injured… Continue reading
Turkish PM: “Ahmadinejad is Our Friend”
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is alleging that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened to use nuclear weapons in the Gaza Strip. Erdogan’s comments were made in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian. His remarks threaten to send the already deteriorating relationship between Turkey and Israel to new lows, especially having defended Israeli arch nemesis Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the same interview… Continue reading
Yemen: Weapons ship, Iranian crew seized
An Iranian-flagged vessel transporting anti-tank weapons to Yemeni rebels was seized by the country’s navy off its northwest coast. Five Iranian nationals, identified by Saudi news agency Al-Arabiya as weapons experts, were transfered to the capital city of Sanaa for investigation… Continue reading
Filed under Chicanery
LHC: The Beam is Back
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is frosty and beaming, once again, after more than a year of repairs and testing that followed the eruptive escape of liquid helium into the tunnel that houses the massive supercollider… Continue reading
ABRACADABRA
[...] “Now,” says the man in the tuxedo with tails, “we must say the magic word.”
And that word is already on the lips of nearly every member of the crowd.
“Abracadabra,” they intone.
But what does that mean, exactly? [...] Continue reading
Iran’s Chariot of Fire
[...] he host of the screening was Finnish nuclear physicist Olli Heinonen, the IAEA’s deputy director general and head of its inspection department, officially called the Department of Safeguards. In attendance were representatives of the 35 member states that constitute the organization’s board of governors. It was one of the most important meetings ever held by the IAEA. [...] Continue reading
