Day November 26, 2006

Loss of control

The Iraq insurgency is self-funding while the Iraq government is collapsing. Lebanon veers towards civil war. And even a Republican senator is saying the US has lost. Yet there’s still some serious incomprehension about what actually happened. From AmericaBlog, a…

UDA hit squads sent to hunt Stone

The Ulster Defense Association, a loyalist paramilitary, sent hit squads to detain, or if need be, shoot Michael Stone who they’d learned had gone off his trolley and was going to attack Stormont, thus possibly jeopardizing the Northern Ireland peace…