The Associated Press
Dozens of schoolchildren and five teachers were among those killed in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan earlier this week — the country’s deadliest since the fall of the Taliban — the government said Friday.The 59 schoolchildren had lined up to greet a group of lawmakers visiting a sugar factory in the northern […]
I just wanted to take a moment to thank all those that have and are serving in our nation’s military. In particular, I’d like to thank my brother-in-law Cam, who was in Iraq when one of his sons was born, my friend Ian who served in Iraq, my friend Naomi who served in Bosnia, my […]
Times Online
A claim by President Ahmadinejad that Iran has 3,000 working uranium-enriching centrifuges sent a tremor across the world yesterday amid fears that Israel would respond by bombing the country’s nuclear facilities.Military sources in Washington said that the existence of such a large number could be a “tipping point”, triggering an Israeli air strike. The […]
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Michael Yon emails: “I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John’s Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from ‘Chosen’ Company 2-12 Cavalry […]
New York Times
Gen. Pervez Musharraf told his national security council today that parliamentary elections would be held before Feb. 15 and that he would give up his military uniform before taking the oath of office for his new term as president.As he made the statement, his security forces clamped down hard on the main opposition […]
Project to Capture CO2 With Plankton Puts to Sea
The WeatherBird II, a 115-foot private research vessel, has put to sea from Florida as part of a novel and contentious effort to commercialize the removal of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by triggering blooms of plankton.The ship is operated by Planktos, one of a host […]
New York Times
Police armed with tear gas and clubs attacked thousands of protesting lawyers in the city of Lahore today, and rounded up lawyers in other cities as the government of the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, faced the first signs of concerted resistance to the imposition of emergency rule.
An estimated 150 lawyers were arrested […]
The Times of India
The Pakistani Army is “bleeding”, and quite profusely at that, in its ongoing bloody skirmishes with extremists in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, with a “high” casualty rate as well as “unprecedented” levels of desertions, suicides and discharge applications.This is the “assessment” of the Indian security establishment closely tracking developments in Pakistan’s […]
