October 7, 2003

One may recall that very soon after the collapse of the Ba’athist regime, a business had started up offering a world standard, GSM mobile phone network in Baghdad and some other parts of Iraq. That was, until the Americans saw it differently and confiscated most of their equipment. This was no doubt why – they…

As I was walking out of the railway station in Staines, Surrey, along the path next to the tracks that connects the station to the town centre, I noticed that all lampposts on the way had been plastered with stickers reading “Africa for Africans! Asia for Asians! Europe for Europeans!”, over a brief blurb on…

Israeli soldier killed on Lebanon border “A UN official told Reuters that one of its water trucks had been hit by three bullets from the Israeli side. No one on the Lebanese side was hurt, said officials.” Now where have we heard that before? Do they just get the red mist whenever they see anything…