The U.S. occupation authority in Iraq was unable to keep track of nearly $9 billion it transferred to government ministries, which lacked financial controls, security, communications and adequate staff, an inspector general has found. The U.S. officials relied on Iraqi audit agencies to account for the funds but those offices were not even functioning when […]
Sudan’s foreign minister said Monday a U.N. report concluded that no genocide was committed in his country’s Darfur region, where tens of thousands of civilians have died in a nearly two-year crisis. At U.N. headquarters in New York, diplomats confirmed that the report did not find that Sudan had committed genocide, but they said it […]
Switzerland has agreed to extradite to Spain the suspected leader of a Muslim cell that planned a bomb attack in central Madrid, the Justice Ministry said on Friday. But Mohammed Achraf, who Spain says was the brains behind an intended attack on Spain’s High Court, site of the investigation into the March 11 train bombings […]
The producers of «Submission», a film about Islam by the murdered Dutch movie director Theo van Gogh, have cancelled plans to show the film at this week’s Rotterdam film festival due to security fears, organisers said on Monday.(afp)
30.1: Selv Odd Karsten Tveit har fått med seg at araberne ser at det er i okkuperte land det holdes frie valg, mens det i deres egne ikke skjer noe. I studio sitter Christian Borch og ikke skjønner noe. Der er det kun dystopien som rår. Kontrasten er stor til innslaget med irakere som køer […]
I Irak är väljarna levande måltavlor. Om människor trots den uppenbara risken att bli sliten i stycken av en bilbomb väljer att rösta är det en kraftfull signal mot terrorister och Saddamtrogna. Att rösta är en röst mot våldet. Aftonbladet
There are few spectacles more grotesque than the Left-wing press siding with a toppled ruling caste that used to treat Iraq as a tribal fiefdom, against the majority of citizens, which it viciously subjugated. Telegraph
Valget i Irak har dermed ingen folkerettslig legitimitet. Det betyr ikke at Iraks befolkning vender ryggen til valget. Men om valgdeltakelsen blir høyere enn antatt, skyldes det andre grunner enn det USAs propagandaapparat vil forkynne. Mens Washington og London forsøker å fokusere på viktigheten av at valget blir holdt, ser irakerne mot tida etter valget. […]
27.1: En dag i Auschwitz-markeringens tegn. Norske aviser mest preget av pliktløp. En gripende musikalsk sending fra Auschwitz ikveld på nrk2, felles for hele Europa. Det sa mer enn mange taler. Valgte å gå og høre Alain Finkielkraut snakke om europeisk identitet, i stedet for Akershusstranda. Han snakket veldig mye om nettopp Auschwitz. At det […]
The Shroud of Turin, believed by some to be Christ’s burial cloth, is much older than previously thought according to a new study in a peer-reviewed journal. The research paper claims carbon dating tests undertaken on the cloth in 1988, which concluded the linen sheet was an mediaeval fake, were inaccurate because not the actual […]
