How the U.S. military occupation looks from the other end of the gun barrel.

Some of the diamonds on the world market are mined in war-torn African countries where illegal diamond sales are used by insurgent groups and corrupt governments to fund their oppressive regimes.

the mother and sons keep a web log on blogspot.com

The notions of religion are different from those of society. The Islamic Religion is much more fair to women, than the back-wards notions of society.
A lot of injustice was heaped upon women in our Islamic world, and usually religion is the accused, but I do not see it as the real reason.

On Friday morning the following letter was sent by email to IMC UK's contact address, threatening libel action over the suggestion that EDO:

(a) are warmongerers;
(b) are complicit in the deaths of innocent people; and
(c) make things that kill children.

South Carolina has become a clearing house for select enemies of the Bush administration. Cases are handled in a new courthouse, named after the 100 year old bigot Strom Thurmond. They are prosecuted by his son, J. Strom Thurmond Junior. The latest cause celebre' to come their way is Jose Padilla.
The world awaits the granting of a writ of habeus corpus in the Padilla case. This could have been granted last year, but a slim majority of the supreme court decided to remand the case to South Carolina where Padilla has been chained to a wall in a navy brig for 2 and a half years without being charged with any crime.