April 27, 2004

Syrian security forces clash with terrorists in diplomatic area ... CJAD, Canada - Fierce armed clashes late Tuesday between terrorists and police in a diplomatic quarter of the Syrian capital that includes the Canadian Embssy killed two attackers, a policeman and woman who was in the area, a Syrian official said.  10:08:09 PM

Search Has Found Itself Washington Post -Google's widely anticipated multibillion-dollar stock offering underscores the meteoric rise of search engines as the driving force behind the global growth of online commerce, industry experts say. 10:05:22 PM

Do you think that Saddam's WMD are finally found? (Just in time for the election.) 10:04:01 PM

Robbers die trying to hold-up suicide bomber IOL - A Hamas suicide bomber blew up two armed Palestinians who tried to rob him at gun point in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed the “stickup men” worked for Israeli intelligence, while Palestinian security forces said the two were ordinary thieves. Rather than give up his explosives, the bomber detonated them, killing himself and the two robbers near the border fence between Gaza and Israel. Palestinian security officials said the the gunmen were criminals who were involved in a car theft ring that brought stolen vehicles from Israel to Gaza. “Anyone who tries to stop a fighter from doing his work is a collaborator,” A Hamas official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. I wonder why all of Hamas' officials are now 'anonymous'? Be sure to note the last line: "The wounded man, a member of Hamas, was taken to an Israeli hospital."  9:36:12 PM

From the "Blame Israel, no matter what" files: Israel protests remark by UN envoy The Globe and Mail, Canada - Israel has sent a formal letter of protest to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, condemning remarks made by the top United Nations envoy to Iraq that called Israel's policies “the great poison” in the Middle East. Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman wrote in the letter Monday that Lakhdar Brahimi's comments were “vitriolic and biased” and heightened concerns about the objectivity of the United Nations concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The flap erupted April 21 when Mr. Brahimi, who is trying to help Iraqis agree on a transitional government to take power June 30, gave an interview to France Inter radio criticizing what he portrayed as Israel's repressive policy and U.S. support for it. He said his effort to help establish an interim government in Iraq was being made more difficult by Israeli policy toward the Palestinians — and that an eventual solution in Iraq was linked to the wider problem of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. 9:18:50 PM