They are hardly winning any new supporters for their style, but you can't take sweet victory away from the Greeks today by whining about their destructive play.
The Greeks, however, can take the Athens olympics in a few weeks away from us all by celebrating too hard. The development was already way behind schedule...
And Otto Rehhagel was a hero in Greece even before the championship.
Mamoun Fandy asks where are the Arab media's sense of outrage over the brutal beheadings. Arab leaders and Arab media outlets, including but not limited to al-Jazeera, are pushing propaganda that makes al-Qaeda's extreme rhetoric more and more mainstream in the Arab world.
Polish troops in Iraq report that they have stopped an attempt by terrorists to obtain warheads containing nerve gas agents. Saddam's chemical weapons, buried in the ground (you know, the ones he didn't have), are being sought by terrorists who are willing to pay $5000 for each. There are conflicting evidence as to whether these warheads still contain enough of the nerve agent cyclosarin to be dangerous.
Gen Dukaczewski said the shells had been purchased in June after individuals contacted officials in its military zone in south-central Iraq.
"We were mortified by the information that terrorists were looking for these warheads and offered $5,000 apiece," he said.
"An attack with such weapons would be hard to imagine. All of our activity was accelerated at appropriating these warheads."
The general said the ammunition had been buried in order to avoid it being discovered by UN weapons inspectors.
They were located in a bunker in the Polish sector, but officials refused to reveal their exact whereabouts.
An artillery shell here, an artilley shell there, before you know it we are talking about an arsenal of chemical weapons.
Sweden has its Blair scandal, and the Swedes don't care
When The New York Times' Jayson Blair was exposed as a fraud, it shocked the American media establishment, and heads rolled. More recently, Sweden's Spectator Media Watch has found that the well-renowed Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter has a serial plagiarist in its journalistic staff, correspondent Peter Borgström, who routinely translates New York Times articles into Swedish and pass them on as his own work.
When Borgström's editor Lars Linder was told about the plagiarism, he essentially didn't give a damn. When receiving further evidence of wholesale fraud in the newspaper, he told the investigator to not bother writing him again.
Not surprisingly, a lot of the plagiarism and other nonsense Peter Bergström wrote was quite anti-American and thus politically correct in Sweden (there is a trend here for fraudulent journalists, isn't it?). Dagens Nyheter so far has no intention of even checking accusations against ideologically correct journalism. This is the country that censured the Oprah Winfrey show for allowing pro-Iraq war arguments on TV, remember.
