Issues of Global Import

9 February 2004


Liberal Democrats Reject Blair's New Iraq Commission
Her Majesty's Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP, PC, announced a new inquiry into the Iraq war having just beaten the BBC with the Hutton Commission Report. The new investigation, led by former cabinet secretary Lord Butler, will look at the intelligence community's failure and find out what went wrong. Sadly for Mr. Blair, the Liberal Democrats won't drink the Kool-Aid and play along.. Click here for more.

Father of Pakistan's Bomb Gets Pardon for Telling Nuke Secrets
When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of passing American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, they got the electric chair. When Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan's Bomb, confessed to sharing similar information with Libya, North Korea and Iran on Pakistani TV, he got a pardon. The difference isn't cultural; it's merely political. Click here to read Kensington's Opinion.

Chechen Suicide Bomber Kills Muscovite Commuters
Eight-thirty Friday morning, headed toward the Paveletskaya station on the Moscow Metro (on the dark green line on the maps), many people were expecting a routine day. Change to the Circle Line to head to Park Kulturny or Kurskaya the other direction, or maybe stay on for the city center at Ploshchad Revolutsii. Not too cold today, running a little late, maybe do something fun at the week-end. A bright flash, a deafening sound, and 40 passengers are dead, another 100 wounded. Click here to read why.