Sri Lanka: SLA, SLAF intensify offensive targeting "safety zone"

Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) continued their strike on the "safety zone" in the 2nd day today. Tamils civilians stay in bunkers for the 2nd day. Number of the casulaties in the latest...

Sri Lanka: "Powers have to repent for what they are doing'

"Powers have to repent for what they are doing" said Dr. Vickrmabahu Karunaratne, general secretary of the NSSP and the president of the Left Front in Sri Lanka, in his article. His voiced the reality of Tamils...

Tony Blair: God helped me with Iraq

Recently converted Catholic, Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United kingdom told BBC radio recently his religious beliefs helped him with the mental decision of invading Iraq and puting UK lives in...

A Disease of the Mind

" By Middle East Online To virtually incarcerate the Palestinian people inside degrading cages, destroying their livelihoods, confiscating their lands, stealing their water and uprooting their trees, and then to...

Our humanity has failed us in Gaza

In a second UN schoolyard, children's bodies lie sliced like meat by falling shells.A girl her face behind a mask of blood... " A girl is carried from the carnage, her face invisible behind a mask of blood. The...

Pak agrees to 48-hour timetable to act against LeT

"Washington, Dec 06: Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour timetable set by India and the United States to formulate a plan to take action against Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) and to arrest at least three Pakistanis who...

Interview With 15-Year-Old Iraqi Girl Who Survived Being Strapped With Explo...

"ania al Ambaki was handcuffed to a gate at an Iraq security checkpoint. She was a human bomb, CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports. Suspicious officers immobilized her, jammed cell phone signals that...

911 callers told of carnage at Texas bus wreck

" Witnesses who called 911 after a chartered bus crash that killed at least 16 people described a chaotic scene, telling emergency personnel of bloody passengers crushed beneath the smoking wreckage, according to calls released Saturday by police. ADVERTISEMENT ...

Afghan Blast Kills Wedding Party

Yet more carnage from Afghanistan. Roadside bombs do not care who triggers them- it's nothing personal, just chemistry and physics. For the victims, though, it's entirely personal: death, maiming and ruined lives."Both the bride and the groom were among those killed by the...

Jump racing carnage kills three horses

"In what can only be described as a day of carnage for the Australasian racing industry, three horses lost their lives in two races on either side of the Tasman on Saturday. The deaths have prompted horse welfare activists to renew their calls for an end to jump racing....

Failed bomber's wife guilty of staying silent about terror plot

The wife of one of the failed suicide bombers, Hussain Osman, is facing jail forfailing to tell police of his plans. The woman, 32-year-old Yeshi Girma, is a Muslim convert and allegedly knew of the plot before it was attempted."The wife of failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman...

War-torn Sri Lanka is the last sick man of the region

"Last weekend's carnage underlines the idiocy of pledges to destroy the Tamil Tigers. Peace talks now seem a distant hope. Jonathan Steele The Guardian, Friday May 2 2008 Time is running out for the...

This is how Islam ends

"This is how Islam ends By Bradley Burston, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Burston, Berkeley Marines This is how Islam ends. It is Friday, the Muslim day of prayer. Two mentally disabled women are fitted with bomb belts. Their handlers hold the switches that will activate the...

Winter Surfing in Toronto

And here I thought just walking the streets was cold! It was -15 today, I can't imagine how cold that water is!"Canada is brutally cold in the winter. This weekend Toronto had one massive winter storm. 30cm (about...

Another Day of Carnage in Iraq

One could post an article almost identical to this one seven days a week, and that's the problem. The situation is simply not improving in Iraq."Insurgents slaughtered another 47 Iraqis on Sunday, including 23 members of a small religious minority dragged from a bus and...

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