8. juli 2006

Life, death and football An international survey by the Plain English Campaign has confirmed that legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly produced the most memorable football quote ever. Shankly struck a chord when he said: "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." Another favourite: Former Manchester United great George Best, famous for his passion for the good life, was at number eight in the poll for saying: "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars. The rest I just squandered". Today is the play-off for the third and fourth place between Portugal and hosts Germany, tomorrow is the final itself, Italy vs France. 4:14:04 PM    comment []  trackback []

Japan calls for NK sanctions Japan calls for sanctions against North Korea. Over Chinese and Russian objections, Japan introduced a draft Security Council resolution Friday that would impose sanctions on North Korea  for its series of rocket test-launches and also order a halt to its development of ballistic missiles. Backed by the United States, Britain and France, the resolution condemns the series of missile launches that the North conducted Wednesday after both its enemies and allies around the world warned it not to. This has called down the anger of North Korea. North Korea threatened on Friday to take "stronger physical actions" after Japan imposed punitive measures in response to its barrage of missile tests and pushed for broader sanctions at the United Nations. North Korea's actual options for "physical action" against Japan are rather limitied, though. Unless these long range missiles actually work, and the regime is suicidal. 2:27:25 PM    comment []  trackback []

NY terrorist tunnel plot disclosed The FBI has stopped a plot to attack a New York tunnel: The FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists to bomb the Holland Tunnel in hopes of causing a torrent of water to deluge lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned. The terrorists sought to drown the Financial District as New Orleans was by Hurricane Katrina, sources said. They also wanted to attack subways and other tunnels. Counterterrorism officials are alarmed by the "lone wolf" terror plot because they allegedly got a pledge of financial and tactical support from Jordanian associates of top terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before he was killed in Iraq, a counterterrorism source told The News. It is interesting to note this plot was uncovered by monitoring jihadist web discussion boards. If this is disinformation, or even if it is true, it should create some paranoia on extremist boards. All arrests took place outside the US, indicating the plan was stopped in its early phases. 3:53:39 AM    comment []  trackback []

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