Month November 2006

From DogHouseBooya Anecdotes from a Banana Republic has the best Lebanese proto-Civil-War coverage in the blogosphere. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I don’t believe for a nanosecond that Syria, Hezbollah, or any of their proxies killed Pierre Gemayel. The…

Daily Dish explains all

From the NY Times An Israeli advocacy group, using maps and figures leaked from inside the government, says that 39 percent of the land held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians. Link via…

Six Sunnis leaving a mosque were burned alive with kerosene in an apparently random reprisal for yesterday’s bombings in the Shia area of Baghdad. (Title of this post is a lyric from ‘War Pigs’ by Black Sabbath)

It was deliberate poisoning, according to health officials. In a message released after his death, Litvinenko blamed his death on Putin.