There seems to be a lot of stuff flying around at the moment about what the Noughties will be remembered for. What has happened in the last decade that will make it stand out from other decades? Well…
In general:
9/11?
The ‘War on Terror’ (i.e. two unjustified unending wars)?
America’s first black President?
Iran’s disputed elections?
The Large Hadron Collider?
The [...]

This week’s Channel 4 Dispatches focused on piecing together the horrific terrorist attacks that hit Mumbai last November. It is incredibly detailed in its tracking of the young terrorists’ movements and their communications with their ‘commanders’ in Pakistan, featuring original voice recordings of mobile interceptions, amateur video footage and CCTV, interviews with eye-witnesses and news [...]

I’ve been wanting to write something about the rise in horrific acid attacks for some time but it’s just so difficult. The stories I read are heart-breaking. One particular story I read today is about an Iranian woman called Ameneh Bahrami, a victim of a vicious acid attack in 2004.
In all honesty though I don’t [...]

So in three weeks time I’ll be arriving in Mumbai!
Eleven mintues, seven bombs, one hundred and eighty three dead and seven hundred and fourteen injured (so far ) - SHIT. This is bad bad news only four days after the anniversary of 7/7. Already fingers are pointing to Islamic militants and Muslim fundamentalists operating in [...]

Militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has announced.
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God 1:Satan nil!
UPDATE 09/06/06:
I just read that the two 500lbs bombs dropped on Zarqawi’s safe house DID NOT instantly kill him! Wow. He apparently died on a stretcher he’d been lifted onto by Iraqi police after muttering ’something indistinguishable and [...]