Archive for January 31st, 2010

“Go, Butt, Go!”

“Go, Butt, Go!”

Those Pakistanis sure take their cricket seriously. Pakistan’s humbling one-day defeat in Perth on Friday night seems to have been the last straw for the fans back home, who took to the streets in their hundreds to burn bats, stumps and an effigy of PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt in protest. Mohammad Yousuf’s team play their [...]

Jan 31, 2010 | 5 comments | View Post

The Day In Israel: Sunday Jan 31st, 2010

Hamas has vowed to avenge the death of one of their founding Hamasholes, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who they say was killed by Israeli agents accompanying National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau to the United Arab Emirates two weeks ago. Hamas said over the weekend that it will send a “security delegation” to Dubai to participate in the [...]

Jan 31, 2010 | 23 comments | View Post