January 27, 2004

A suicide bomber killed a Canadian solider Tuesday in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two other soldiers were wounded by the attack against troops who were riding on a jeep. While the Taliban claimed responsibility, some Canadian troops believe the attack was in retaliation for a January 18 raid in which several suspected terrorists and alleged drug lords were arrested. 8:05:14 PM

Justin Huggler at The Independent gets confused in discussing Israel's rejection of a "ten-year truce" offer from Hamas. His ends by suggesting that Hamas is willing to recognize Israel: What Dr Rantisi was proposing is similar to the Saudi initiative of 2002 that Saudi Arabia and other states are reportedly trying to revive: Arab states were to make peace with and recognize Israel in return for a withdrawal from the occupied territories. But it previously stated: Dr Rantisi said Hamas would never abandon its quest for the whole of mandate Palestine, but that a state in the West Bank and Gaza could pave the way to peace, though the truce would last "not more than 10 years". Which is it? Recognizing Israel as the last paragraph states or wanting to replace it? 6:20:01 PM

The international group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has decided it was too long since Saddam Hussein's last acts of mass killing and genocide to warrant his removal. So apparently genocide has a statue of limitations? If the Khmer Rouge had not attacked and been defeated by Vietnam they would be untouchable no matter how many people they killed in the 1970s? What about the Nazis and the Holocaust? 6:19:04 PM

What happens when you don’t maintain your disk It now appears that NASA’s Spirit Mars Rover is suffering from too many files in its flash memory leading to a breakdown in the operating system routines for file management. As part of its recovery plan NASA plans to delete files relating to events that occurred while Spirit was still in space travelling from the Earth to Mars. 12:28:15 AM