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Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
Guardian: "Iraq - which for years has been an unmitigated tragedy - has turned into Grand Guignol, and, true to the traditions of that genre, horror and farce combine in equal measure. No doubt we should rejoice that al-Jamiat police station in Basra has been destroyed and its prisoners taken to the relative security of a compound in which detainees are hopefully not routinely tortured. But if a sick satire on an obscure television channel included a sketch about British troops attacking a unit of the police that they established and with whom they had been theoretically working for nearly four years, the outcry would not have been limited to complaints about undermining the morale of our troops under fire. We would have been told that the whole idea was too fantastical to sustain the lampoon."
WashingtonPost: "Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis not to hate the U.S.-led forces that invaded Iraq in 2003 in a farewell letter posted on a Web site Wednesday, a day after an appeals court upheld the former dictator's death sentence and ordered him to be hanged within one month."
If Saddam is hanged, this will bring the public accusation of war crimes and execution of George W. Bush a bit closer.
12:17:40 PM 
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BBC: "Russia's chief prosecutor says he is investigating whether a former boss of the oil firm Yukos may be linked to the death of ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko.
The prosecutor-general's statement said Mr Nevzlin and some other ex-Yukos executives were wanted internationally over serious crimes.
Mr Nevzlin, who denies any wrongdoing in connection with Yukos, is now living in Israel."
12:12:22 PM
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Scotsman: "Labour will be left with no members by 2013 if its rank and file supporters continue to desert the party at the rate of one every 20 minutes, John Cruddas, a contender for the deputy leadership, has warned.
Members are abandoning the party at a record rate of 27,000-a-year since 2000, with party membership dwindling to 198,026 by the end of last year."
By that time Phony Bliar will sit in his condo on the Bahamas, have transferred his assets to a trust on the Cayman Islands and have received his peerage (and paid for it). Then he will write his memoirs, 'How I Did It', for the comfortable sum of five million Pounds Sterling.
12:00:36 PM
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