Archive for October 30th, 2006

More Biting of Hand That Feeds Them

Less than a week after capturing a foreign palestinian sympathizer, those wacky palestinian terrorists have gone and done it again.

Palestinian gunmen on Monday abducted a Spanish aid worker in the central Gaza Strip, the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners, Palestinian security officials and colleagues of the man said.
 
The officials, speaking on [...]

Paris Syndrome

The French make a lot of people sick. No, really.
Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported.
“A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses,” Yousef [...]

Helping Mahmood

Esra’a reports that her fellow Bahraini blogger, Mahmood, has been blocked by Bahrain’s Ministry of Information.
I never thought I’d see the day Mahmood’s Den, the most popular and informative blog in Bahrain (if not the entire Gulf), be blocked by our Ministry of Information because it has gotten away with a lot. But it’s confirmed [...]