Archive for October 20th, 2006

Puttin’ Up With Putin

Putin channels Borat: President Vladimir Putin has a penchant for making pithy, acerbic, sometimes coarse comments. On Wednesday a microphone inadvertently left on during a brief appearance with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel captured his views on the sex scandal involving Israel’s president. According to published accounts by Agence France-Presse late Wednesday and Kommersant [...]

Oct 20, 2006 | 2 comments | View Post

Disproportionate Response

UN peacekeeping chief French Major General Alain Pelligrini on how UNIFIL may deal with Hizbullah terrorists on the way to attack, or even in the midst of attacking, Israel: Contrary to Israeli hopes that the new multinational force in Lebanon will engage and disarm Hizbullah, the beefed up UNIFIL will not immediately open fire on [...]

Oct 20, 2006 | 7 comments | View Post