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Get a load of this!

6 May, 2005 – 11:30

And with that pending release(?) of the Royal Commission’s Report too…
Top cop held over money scam
KUALA LUMPUR: A senior police officer was among three people caught red-handed preparing a black-money scam in a five-star hotel in Jalan Ampang.
The officer with more than 20 years of service had also served with the United Nations [...]

Posted in China and SE Asia, People who need a good thrashing | Comments (1)

Finally!

25 Apr, 2005 – 12:37

Washington Finally Gets It on Radical Islam
Does the Bush administration really believe, as its leadership has kept repeating since right after 9/11, that Islam is a “religion of peace” not connected to the problem of terrorism? Plenty of indications suggested that it knew better, but year after year the official line remained the same. From [...]

Posted in Fighting Back, Islamism | Comments (1)

It’s all about the oil

8 Mar, 2005 – 09:13

Oil-rich islands split Malaysia and Indonesia
After several days of gunboat diplomacy over disputed offshore oil and gas reserves in the South China Sea, Malaysia and Indonesia promised Monday to pursue high-level talks in the coming days to defuse tensions over their conflicting territorial claims.
With Indonesian and Malaysian warships and fighter aircraft now deployed [...]

Posted in China and SE Asia | Comments (2)

Just something we do…

5 Mar, 2005 – 11:48

Posted in Humour and diversions | Comments (1)

Believe it or Not!

27 Feb, 2005 – 17:24

The World Turned Upside Down by Wretchard.
Don’t that beat all. When the blog Dutch Report reported that two parliamentary representatives, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders, had been kept in prison cells to protect them against Islamic death threats, I refused at first to believe it. The Dutch Report is in English and since I [...]

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