Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
From Ynetnews:
| Israel believes that North Korea has been supplying Syria and Iran with nuclear materials, a Washington defense official told the New York Times. “The Israelis think North Korea is selling to Iran and Syria what little they have left,†he said.
The official added that recent Israeli reconnaissance flights over Syria revealed possible nuclear installations that Israeli officials estimate might have been supplied with material from North Korea. |
Does anybody care enough?
1972: The uncanceled, unpostponed Munich Summer Olympics ended. What’s memorable about them?
2001: The Twin Towers ended.
“Testing, testing,” said the Israelis.
| Syria has said its air defences opened fire on Israeli warplanes after they violated its airspace in the north of the country. |
“We’re here,” said the Syrians.
| Syrian officials said the defences forced the jets to drop ammunition over deserted areas and turn back, according to the official news agency, Sana.
Israel’s military said it would not comment on the reports. Israel and Syria remain technically at war and tensions between them have been rising in recent months. The Syrian government has insisted that peace talks can be resumed only on the basis of Israel returning the Golan Heights, which it seized in 1967. |
“Seized,” huh?
That sounds milder (and more victim-oriented) than “conquered in war.”
Whatever. Perhaps the two countries will have further, longer, and more intense “conversations” before too long.
Matt Drudge is reporting under his flashing strobe:
Iran vows to take charge in Iraq
Red.
All-caps.
No link yet.
Nor explanation.
Update: several minutes later
That headline is now gone in favor of this link: Iran Prepared to Fill Iraq Power Vacuum
Still red.
Now initial caps instead of all caps.
No, I haven’t read the story.
🙂
| It matters to the security of people here at home if we don’t work to change the conditions that cause 19 kids to be lured onto airplanes to come and murder our citizens. |
Kids, Mr. President?
Lured?
That is stunning to me.
And when it comes to causal conditions, were none of those fellows educated and such?
And what about those other “kids” more recently in trouble in the UK? You know, those doctors?
Amazing.
I really do think Mr. Bush or Tony Snow or somebody at the White House needs to clarify that. (But it probably can’t be done.)
| A massive manhunt and rescue operation ended in joy around midnight between Thursday and Friday, after a missing child was found alive, floating in the Dead Sea. The high salt and mineral content of the water, while extremely dangerous to ingest, kept the child afloat.
Eight-year-old Schneur Zalman Friedman disappeared within minutes on Thursday after he entered the water at 5:00 p.m. with his father and brother. It is known that high winds often blow through the Dead Sea area towards evening, cooling off the heat of the day, but in this case, they caused the tide to carry him away. |
Mission Network News reports:
| Christian Persecution in Iraq is much worse than most people think, according to a report from the Christian Post.
“The situation is more than desperate,” said White, pastor of 1,300-member St. George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad. White’s firsthand account of the plight of Christians on the ground included a report that 36 members of his own church were kidnapped. Only one has been released so far since the church found enough money to pay his ransom. White and others also reported that Dora, Iraq has seen many incredibly violent acts against Christians in the last few months. Almost all the churches have been bombed and burned. Almost all Christians have been forced to leave their homes after receiving death threats. |
Somehow, this just doesn’t seem right (or even to be expected) in a country “liberated” and “dominated” and “secured” by the United States.
Why is it so?