16. September 2008 – 20:13
There is a funny background story to how I got to know about line dance:
I actually did not know anything about it until I saw this movie: “Willkommen im Westerwald!” (“Welcome to Westerwald!”) on German TV this summer (August 6th).
The movie is about Ahmad, an Iraqi who worked as a translator for the American [...]
When I heard on the radio this week that Stern-Magazin was going to publish an interview with Lynndie England in which she tells Stern everything about Abu Ghraib she did not want to tell the US media, I decided not to buy it, because I knew it would spoil my day if I did so.
But [...]
The 15 British sailors have been released today. Many people, even in the West, see this as a victory of diplomacy. But this same day, 4 British soldiers and a civilian translator have been killed by a roadside bomb in Southern Iraq. And this same day, Khamail Khalaf, a correspondent in Iraq with RFE/RL’s Radio [...]
These days there is a lot of talk about diplomacy. Our pro-Israel demonstration was criticised for being too undiplomatic, and there are still people who are calling for more intense diplomatic efforts regarding Iran (I have just heard Barack Obama on heute journal). Well, maybe President Bush has heard these calls. He has sent a [...]
According to today`s “Tagesspiegel” and “Berliner Zeitung” we were about 600 yesterday. Sadly, both newspapers report only very shortly about the demonstration: three sentences in Berliner Zeitung (”Protest gegen Irans Präsidenten”, page 17) and (double!) six sentences in Tagesspiegel (”Über 600 Menschen demonstrierten gegen den iranischen Präsidenten”, page 9). The anti-war demonstration in Washington got [...]
10. Dezember 2006 – 22:02
Mit Iran und Syrien reden soll also laut ISG zur Lösung des Irak-Konfliktes beitragen. Das ist ein bisschen so, als ob man den Brandstifter bitten würde, das Feuer zu löschen, das er selbst gelegt hat. Absurd – wobei es hat auch einen gewissen Charme. Denn der Brandstifter weiß natürlich am besten, wo und wie er [...]
15. November 2006 – 19:09
Paul13 von “No Blood for Sauerkraut” und “WMD” analysiert die möglichen Stragien für den Irak hier.
15. November 2006 – 19:08
Last week the democrats got applause from the so-called “insurgents” in Iraq for having won the US-elections. I can only hope the democrats will show these terrorists being dead-wrong.
CNN, November 9, 2006 — Iraqi insurgents: GOP losses ‘a great victory for Iraqi resistance’:
“The Islamic Army in Iraq on Thursday called the Republican losses in the [...]