GibburtUpdate: Abu Omar rendition trial ends
The trial around the kidnapping of the Egyptian imam Abu Omar has been concluded. See for a short update my post on Filip Spagnoli’s blog here.
The trial around the kidnapping of the Egyptian imam Abu Omar has been concluded. See for a short update my post on Filip Spagnoli’s blog here.
History would have looked different without mr. Joseph Stalin. Several massive events this man can write on his resume, like the Great Purge in the late thirties, during which at least 600,000 people where sentenced to death. And although quite considerable in number, this was just part of Stalin’s great labor: the Gulag camps, deathtraps [...]
On October 4th 2001, a mere there weeks after 9/11, NATO invoked article 5 of the treaty for the first time in its history. Bluntly speaking, this article says that an attack on one is considered an attack on all.
In reality this meant that the US no longer stood alone in their wish to retaliate [...]
Yesterday I published an article on Filip Spagnoli’s P.A.P. blog about the ‘extraordinary rendition’ (or in more down-to-earth language: kidnapping) of Abu Omar, an Italian based imam who was grabbed from the streets of Milan to be transported to an Egyptian jail. Please find the article here.
The modern interpretation of the word “terrorism” confuses me sometimes. It seems that nowadays, terrorism is considered an action against the actual victims of violence. This used to be called (mass)murder. “Terrorism” is the “-ism” involving “terror,” but I may – as usual – be oversimplifying things or overly conservative with regards to etymology. In [...]
In early October, I and two good friends visited India for a couple of weeks. It was a remarkable journey through a remarkable country. As one would expect, the trip was not without its share of smaller and larger practical and personal difficulties. Moreover, seeing the poverty of India’s most unfortunate with our own eyes [...]