Global News: June 2008 Archives
Iraqi Sheik Offers To Take Fight to Bin Laden - June 9, 2008 - The New York Sun
Sheik Ahmed Fateh Khan al-Rishawi, who was part of the tribal rebellion against Al Qaeda in Anbar province in Iraq, offers to help make the same thing happen in Afghanistan: "Al Qaeda is an ideology. We can defeat them inside Iraq and we can defeat them in any country." He has written a "study on Afghanistan and its tribes for the deputy chief of mission at the American embassy in Kabul." (Via Ace.)
JCPA U.S. Policy-Robert Kennedy's 1948 Reports from Palestine
RFK on the scene a month before the birth of Israel: "Under the supposition that, at the finish of the [British] mandate, this was to be their national state, they went to work. They set up laboratories where world-famous scientists could study and analyze soils and crops. The combination of arduous labor and almost unlimited funds from the United States changed what was once arid desert into flourishing orange groves." (Via Little Green Footballs.)
Czech President Vaclav Klaus answers "no" to the four fundamental questions of global warming. "But to argue, as it's done by many contemporary environmentalists, that these questions have already been answered with a consensual 'yes' and that there is an unchallenged scientific consensus about this is unjustified. It is also morally and intellectually deceptive."
