Saturday, October 30, 2004
Bin Laden video threatens America
BBC NEWS | "Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has broadcast a videotape in which Osama Bin Laden threatens fresh attacks on the US.
The leader of the al-Qaeda network says the reasons behind the events of 11 September 2001 still exist.
It is his clearest claim of responsibility yet for those attacks.
Americans go to the polls in four days, but Bin Laden says their security depends on neither George W Bush nor John Kerry, but on US foreign policy. "
Excerpts: Bin Laden address
BBC NEWS | "Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has broadcast a videotape of Osama Bin Laden addressing the American people.
Here are key excerpts from the video:
The recorded message was 18 minutes in length
'O American people, my talk to you is about the best way to avoid another Manhattan, about the war, its causes and results... "
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
De Amerikaan die ik nooit geweest ben
Journalist and writer Chris Keulemans on tour through American culture, trying to discover the American he never was.
beautiful website! In Dutch and English.
De Amerikaan die ik nooit geweest ben
Friday, October 22, 2004
The Baghdad Blogger goes to Washington: day one
Guardian Unlimited | "In the run-up to the Iraq conflict, a web diary from Baghdad captured a global following. Its author, Salam Pax, reluctantly supported the invasion. Now he journeys for the first time to the city where the decision was taken for war - and asks if it's already too late for freedom in his country "
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Sudan repeating Rwanda?
Jonathan Power | "Last week, Sudan's minister of state for foreign affairs told a press conference in Khartoum that the Darfur crisis was 'a smokescreen' to hoodwink the international community into aiding political opponents who seek to overthrow the government.
I immediately phoned up Olusegun Obasanjo, the president of Nigeria and the current chairman of the African Union. Obasanjo who is hosting a peace conference later this month between the warring parties and Nigeria, along with Rwanda, has sent peace-keepers to Sudan to monitor the conflict. As usual Obasanjo was to the point: 'If there is any smokescreen at all it is coming from the Sudanese government'."
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
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