…but few of them are clueless enough to reveal it on national television.
Actually, ‘think’ is probably the wrong word.
Daily Archives: May 27, 2012
Syria: Dozens killed, including children, as theocracy struggles to survive
Calls for Western military action against Syria intensified last night after grisly footage of the bodies of dozens of children killed in fresh violence laid bare the failure of the United Nations-brokered peace plan.
In one of the bloodiest incidents to date in the 15-month long uprising, 92 people were killed – including 32 children – after a 12-hour regime assault on Houla, in the central province of Homs.
Anti-government activists claimed that troops had first shelled several villages with tanks and then sent in gangs of pro-regime thugs to “massacre” local families in their houses.
Funny how ‘caring, enlightened’ religious states value the lives of their citizens so much less than ‘scientific, impersonal’ secular ones.
Update 2012-06-07: Another massacre.
Yemen: 33 killed in attack on Islamic fundamentalists
Thirty-three people, including six soldiers, were killed today in clashes between al-Qaeda and the army in southern Yemen as troops advanced towards the Abyan provincial capital Zinjibar, military and local sources said.
Soldiers from the 25th Mechanised Brigade “managed early on Saturday to deal heavy blows to terrorists in Maraqid and Mashqasa … Killing 20 terrorist elements, most of them Somalis,” Brigadier General Muhammad al-Sawmali told defence ministry news website 26sep.Net.
Vatican: Investigators discover new oxymoron…
A representative of the Butler’s Union commented today: “Uhhhhhhhhhhh…”
…’straight from the Holy City’
An on-again, off-again scandal the Italian press has called VatiLeaks burst into the open on Friday with the arrest by Vatican police of a man identified in news reports as Paolo Gabriele, the Pope’s butler, who the Vatican said held confidential documents and was suspected of leaking private letters, some of which were addressed to Pope Benedict.
The arrest came a day after the ouster of the president of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, amid conflicts over how to bring the secretive institution in line with international transparency standards, and days after the publication of a sensational book, Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI, in which journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, aided by ”Maria”, discloses a huge cache of private Vatican correspondence, many revealing clashes over management at the bank and allegations of corruption and cronyism.
The letters, which have made their way to the Italian media in recent months, draw a portrait of an ancient institution in chaotic disarray, where factions vie for power, influence and financial control.
“Is the Vatican corrupt?” said a spokesman. “I wouldn’t bank on it.”
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