Tuesday’s attack on a US military base in Mosul that
killed 22 people, including 14 US service members, was
the work of a suicide bomber. On-site reports indicate the bomb was followed with a mortar attack that suggests the target was under observation by an enemy mortar team. Captain Richard Hartnett has some thoughts on force protection.
The French government insists that no ransom had been paid to secure the release of their two journalists. No, no ransom...they simply played the "French journalist card". Uh huh.
Annan admits that the current UN strategy of talk and bluff intended to help the Darfur region in Sudan isn't working.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that Europe was ''not naive'' about Iran's nuclear plans and would ensure Tehran fulfils an obligation to freeze work that could lead to making nuclear weapons. I wonder how they will ensure this?
Forty-four North Koreans who sought asylum at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing in September have been taken to a safe third country.
Tanzania's High Court today freed a local man who was charged six years ago with helping to carry out the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam.
Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador from Tripoli and expelled the Libyan envoy over what it called an "atrocious" Libyan plot to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah.
More than 140,000 Palestinians in the West Bank are heading to 26 ballots to elect mayors and municipal councils for their towns and villages.
Spanish Police arrested three Moroccans they believe were part of a radical Islamic cell looking to buy explosives in a central European country for a terrorist attack in Spain.
Navy deserter Pablo Paredes turns himself in.
Rachel Lucas gets a gift from Iraq.
A Festivus for the rest of us.
More than 2000 Indonesian women washed their
laundry together at a city square on Sunday to post a record and donate
the clothes to orphanages
Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, the city council in the Mexican city of Villahermosa has adopted a law banning indoor nudity. "We are talking about zero tolerance ... for a lack of morality,'' said city councilwoman Blanca Estela Pulido of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, which governs the state and city. Revolutionary Institutional Party or RIP. They don't sound like Republicans to me....
Nova Scotia's high court to decide if "kemosabe" is a rascist term.
Suicide by chainsaw.