Around the World in 60 seconds...

Every now and then we like to jump a jet, visit foreign lands, read their papers and report back on items we find of interest.

We start with a chilling report from Ynetnews.com. They are reporting that Israel has issued an ultimatum to Syria

The London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Saturday that “Washington has information according to which Israel gave Damascus 72 hours to stop Hizbullah’s activity along the Lebanon-Israel border and bring about the release the two kidnapped IDF soldiers or it would launch an offensive with disastrous consequences.”

The report said “a senior Pentagon source warned that should the Arab world and international community fail in the efforts to convince
Syria to pressure Hizbullah into releasing the soldiers and halt the current escalation Israel may attack targets in the country.”


Al-Hayat quoted the source as saying that “the US cannot rule out the possibility of an Israeli strike in Syria,” this despite the fact that the Bush administration has asked Israel to “refrain from any military activity that may result in civilian casualties.”

Israel blames Syria and Iran for the current conflict in Lebanon. It's comforting to see George Bushs vision of peace and democracy spreading through the Middle East come to fruition. For awhile there it was looking bad...

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HERE is an interesing editorial from Zaman Daily on the NY Times banking surveillance 'scandal'. I love how a paper doing it's job is now scandalous. Writer Tamar Korkmaz offers us a solution to the problem.

...there is only one thing the Bush administration can do: It should immediately announce to the American people that according to certain intelligence information, there are weapons of mass destruction in the cellar of the New York Times building!

And then The Times building should be bombed!

Brilliant! I called Judy Miller for comment and she had this to say

“I saw the weapons of mass destruction at The Times with my own eyes.”

There you have it. Proof positive the NY Times is in league with freedom haters. Warm the jets:)


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And finally another editorial, this one from 'The Nation'. No, not the hippie leftist US based paper;p but a Pakistani paper of the same name. This editorial is by Roedad Khan and is located HERE. It begins with a nice summarization of the founding of the United States and follows with a laundry list of crimes perpetrated by the US on the planet as a whole. Governments overthrown. Dictators embraced etc. but it's the final paragraph that jumps out at me

In the past, some envied America, some liked America, some hated America but almost all respected her. Very few respect America today. They all fear America. Today Muslims perceive America as the greatest threat to the World of Islam since the 13th century. The irony is that, despite all the untold crimes committed by successive American governments against poor, powerless, third world countries, the American Declaration of Independence remains even today an effective force and a source of inspiration for people, like us, who live under despotic rulers - hereditary monarchs or military dictators. They see in the American fight for liberty an encouraging precedent for their own struggles.

Well said. Here's his website is you want to check out more of his writing www.roedadkhan.com

And if you haven't read the Declaration of Independence lately...HERE it is.

Stay careful Zooheads...and as always...

Stay Naked.

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