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MUMBAI, India – The only gunman captured during the terror attack on Mumbai says he was promised that his impoverished family would get $1,250 if he died fighting for militant Islam, security officials have said. Read more
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details: “The couple [...]
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Saudi Arabia’s king called for greater dialogue and openness between the world’s monotheistic religions on March 24, 2008. In the face of rising tensions over Mohammed cartoons, al-Qaida claiming Pope Benedict XVI is leading a crusade, and a stalled Middle East peace process, King Abdullah‘s outreach took on extra weight. From the International Herald Tribune: [...]
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As if any more disturbing details about the Mumbai massacre could emerge, it’s now being reported that many of the victims were also tortured — and no one more so than the Israelis killed in the Chabad house. DEBKAfile reports that Rivka Holtzberg, wife of the center’s rabbi, Gavriel, was also six months pregnant, and [...]
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« Another thought about the `Where was Obama born?’ dispute | Main Originally posted: December 3, 2008 Look, you shouldn’t miss this essay Julia Keller notices Barack Obama’s signature overuse of the word “look.” (LINK) Obama has the ‘Look’ By Julia Keller Tribune cultural critic   December 2, 2008 Richard Nixon had “My fellow [...]
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2:42pm UK, Wednesday December 03, 2008 Two bombs left behind by the Mumbai terrorists have been found and defused at the main railway station in the city. Mumbai’s main station tries [...]
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Role-playing game Chrono Trigger DS could see a release next February. According to Eurogamer, “sources close to Square Enix” have confirmed that the game will reach Europe early next year. Released in North America last week, the RPG is a remastered version of the SNES game, with a new dungeon, extra ending and Wi-Fi. The [...]
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Zimbabwe’s central bank will introduce new higher denomination banknotes of up to Z$100 million, as it battles to contain hyperinflation. Read more
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A terrorist chieftain in Pakistan masterminded the Mumbai massacre and kept in touch with the 10 attackers by satellite phone, Indian police believe. Read more
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Without even knowing it, Condoleezza Rice saved President Bush’s re-election in 2004, according to Barton Gellman, author of “Angler,” a new book on Vice President Dick Cheney that a former Bush official today said “nails” the inner workings of the Bush presidency. Read more
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Yesterday, in Chicago, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced several top-level appointments, naming the policy-makers-in-waiting he will nominate to become members of his new administration’s national-security (and foreign-policy) team. Obama chose New York Senator Hillary Clinton – until recently, his rival for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination – to serve as his secretary of state. With [...]
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A clutter of makeshift shelters is tucked away from the road that runs through Baghdad’s well-secured airport zone. About 50 Nepalese men and a handful of Indians are living under the jumble of wooden planks and soiled carpets. Some of the shelters have scraps of tarpaulin over the top to keep out the rain but [...]
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“We don’t think the world’s great nations and countries can be held hostage by non-state actors,” Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said yesterday. Fair enough. But what is the world to do when those non-state actors operate from the territory of a state and are the creation of that state’s intelligence services? Read more
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LONDON, Dec. 1 — A decision by London’s anti-terrorism police to arrest a lawmaker and raid his offices in an inquiry into the leaking of sensitive documents has triggered a passionate debate about democracy and the historic rights of Parliament in Britain. Read more
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Senior U.S. officials converged on South Asia yesterday, hoping to persuade India and Pakistan to lower the tensions between them after the Mumbai attacks, and to avoid an escalation that could jeopardize U.S. war efforts in neighboring Afghanistan. Read more
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LIMA, Peru, Nov. 15 — These should be good times for president Alan GarcÃa. Read more
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FABER, Va., Nov. 28 — Alan Scherr was an art professor with a comfortable life in the Maryland suburbs, but he spent 25 years studying Transcendental Meditation in a quest for something more. The search took him and his family to Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where they shed their old life in Silver Spring and [...]
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As one of President-elect Barack Obama‘s closest campaign advisers and a fellow opponent of the war in Iraq, Susan E. Rice was regarded as a lock for a senior post in Washington after the election. Read more
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A Conservative ReappraisalIs the right becoming reconciled to Obama? Or beyond that, taking a shine to the guy? Are pundits thinking that, after a campaign in which he was called a socialist and closet Muslim who hangs around with America-hating preachers, the president-elect’s really not so bad? I suspect that may be the… Read more
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MUMBAI, Dec. 1 — Outside the ornate synagogue, Indian sharpshooters were perched on rooftops and Israeli security agents roamed the alleys in this busy neighborhood, just a 15-minute walk from the devastated Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel. Read more