Recently travelling back from Canada to Uganda through London, England – capital of history’s most influential empire – I got some renewed perspective on global leadership and change and how, in politics, there’s nothing like old-fashioned fear to move things along.
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SANA’A, YEMEN ✦ Dohhh! Just when the Yankee cat turns its back to focus on Iraq, the Yemeni mice go out to play.
A gang of al-Qaeda-type jailbirds, including two held as key suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, have apparently vanished from a jail in Aden for good.
Six weeks ago, they escaped in a style that outdid even the Great Escape from Alcatraz.
No wonder they claw their way out of jail Read More »
Just when the Yankee cat turns its back to focus on Iraq, the Yemeni mice go out to play. A gang of al-Qaeda-type jailbirds, including two held as key suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, have apparently vanished from a jail in Aden for good.
No wonder they claw their way out of jail Read More »
Washington admits that it wants to shape the entire Middle East into a kinder place. Sooner or later, that goal may take the U.S. to Yemen’s terrorist haven.
Is Yemen also on US hit list? Read More »
If there is a time for everything — a time to search and a time to give up, a time for love and a time for hate — it would appear it’s time for the Americans to blow Saddam and all that is his to Kingdom Come.
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SANA’A, YEMEN ✦ The Yanks. We love ’em. We hate ’em.
Indeed, Jean and I are still recovering from the news of the brutal slaying of threeU.S.aid workers, including a doctor friend, at Jibla missionary hospital.
The killer, apparently an Islamic extremist, reportedly said he killed “to get closer to God.” Right.
And who better to kill than American Christians? It’s killing two birds, innocent as they may be, with one stone.
Indeed,U.S.foreign policy really has folks in a huff these days. In fact, many of us would bend over backward to disassociate ourselves from the Yanks. No?
We should emulate the Yemeni Way Read More »
Thank you for your wishes for “peace and quiet” and “safety and peace.” It seems one can’t keep anything secret any more. The Internet shows newspapers from China to Switzerland to Australia have reported the recent racket in Yemen.
It’s tough to find peace anywhere Read More »
Among the more comical responses to the tragic attacks of Sept. 11 was from an American who said she would pile up her credit card charges to beat the terrorists, “Just to show I have faith in the economy.”
Giving birth to change Read More »
