British Maverick MP George Galloway has suedThe Telegraph over allegations, based on documents the newspaper found in the Iraqi oil ministry shortly after the fall of Baghdad, that he accepted bribes from Saddam Hussein.
Galloway has been an outspoken supporter of Saddam Hussein, arguing for a total abolsihment f the sanctions regime between the two Gulf wars. His treacherous statements during the Iraq war had him expulsed from the Labour party.
Now a second set of documents has implicated Galloway in accepting money from Saddam Hussein, namely the famous list of oil voucher receivers. Galloway has issued a public denial that doesn't exactly hold up very well to facts, and The Telegraph refutes it here.
Yes, a web page named John Kerry is a douchebag, but I'm voting for him anyway dot com.
Can a candidate so few people really like get elected president, just because so many hate the incumbent?
PS: When I see such ridiculously long domain names, I am tempted to find out how long a domain name can be.
If you're talking about any domain name, the answer is: it can be 255 octets (bytes) long, which includes two length counters (one for name, one for top level domain e.g. 'com') and a terminating zero at the end.
However, for .com domain names (and, I think, most others), the maxium length is really set to 63, again including last name and some stash. The minimum length of the domain body is two characters.
The above domain name is 44 characters excluding the extension. If I counted correctly.
An interesting Bloomberg article on corruption in Iran begins with the Norwegian Statoil scandal, where illicit payments to a son of the former Iranian president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, caused serious problems for Norway's largest company.
The Statoil scandal reveals the risks of dealing with Iran - -a country that ranks with Armenia, Lebanon and Mali as ``highly corrupt'' in a survey by Berlin-based Transparency International, which polls business executives and academics on investing. Two weeks after the raid, Statoil Chairman Leif Terje Loeddesoel, 69, Chief Executive Officer Olav Fjell, 52, and Executive Vice President Richard Hubbard, 53, resigned. None of the executives has been charged with any wrongdoing.
Via Roger L. Simon, who asks if these super-corrupt Mullahs who abuse their power to make billions really " believe any of the religious nonsense they spew." That is anybody's guess, but I fear they somehow manage to believe it.
Page 250: Karl Rove, a Norwegian-American, is obsessed with the "historical duplicity" of the Swedes, who seized Norway back in 1814. This nationalism manifests itself as hatred for Swedish weapons inspector Hans Blix.
There you have it! It's all Norway's fault.
I would, like Bjørn, like to see this confirmed with the full text of that page from Woodward's book.
Not only Karl Rowe in the Bush administration is a Norwegian-American, btw. The other one is JohnAshcroft. You didn't expect them to be the doves, did you?
PS: Karl is right about Swedish duplicity, but of course I'd say that. Swedes are generally disliked anyway, even by people who drive a Volvo and have Ikea furniture.
Sharon: No longer bound by pledge to not harm Arafat
Ariel Sharon has said he is no longer bound by the pledge he made to the US not to harm or deport Yasser Arafat. The White House has responded by stating Sharon should not go back on his pledge, and that Bush has reiterated to Sharon his opposition to "any such action."
Isn't this a rather obvious good cop, bad cop tactic? These diplomatic exchanges are probably served to intimidate Arafat into holding back his terrorists. But Sharon is unlikely to be bluffing. Arafat must well be aware that another serious terrorist attack in Israel may well be the last he is ever given a chance to offer a fake condemnation of.
Heads rolling in USA Today amidst Jack Kelley scandal
It is interesting to see how The New York Times writes about the recent scandal at USA Today. USA Today's star foreign reporter.Jack Kelley has so far been found to have "made up" at least 20 articles. Three top editors have already resigned, as a panel finds serious organizational problems that has allowed the fraud to go on for years.
Kelley was found out after writing a shocking story that spread to various other newspapers worldwide, about a group of Jewish settlers shooting at random Palestinians. Upon investigation, it appeared that persons described in the story were non-existent, and no evidence could be found supporting that the incidents had taken place.
