Jinn of Current Events

Associated Press: French President Jacques Chirac allegedly guaranteed that Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic would not be transferred to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in exchange for the release of two French hostages in 1995, according to evidence presented at Slobodan Milosevic's trial Wednesday. The question one should naturally ask is: what other mass-murderers and criminals is Chirac protecting? brings a new, crude light to the allegations that France has provided false passports to high-ranking Baathists escaping from the liberation of Iraq. One can hope that relatives of Bosnian victims will sue Chirac for his support of genocidal maniacs. 

When a courageous generation of students is demonstrating against dictatorship, and when foreign thugs are used by a tyrannical government violently repressing them, where are the millions of protesters who marched through Western cities earlier this year? and where are the dominant media when freedom for Persia is at stake? one could almost believe that the only important thing that's recently happened in that area is the failed surgical separation of conjoined twins. Fate, hardship, and a failure of modern medicine — that is what matters to the Western media!

Jerusalem Post: Shrugging off death threats by government paramilitary forces, tens thousands of Iranian students took to the streets Wednesday night, burning at least three government banks, calling for the country's democratization and the death to its extremist leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini. The demonstrations, banned by the Mullarchy, came on the 4th anniversary of 1999 pro-reform protests which triggered a violent regime crackdown, the death of one student and the arrest of thousands.