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Terrence Aym’s article describes a worst-case scenario in Gulf.

Just copy and paste into your wordprocessor, stir vigorously, and post as a comment.

Hurriyet is the voice of Turkey’s estabishment. If you want to know what the policy makers, the military high command, the upper echelons of their civil and diplomatic services think then Hurriyet should be your first port of call. The title to this posting is the headline to a policy piece published in Hurriyet and translated by the “Watching America” site. I’d be scrambling to undo the damage if I was in the Obomber administration, but I’m not, and the three top officials in the Obomber administration are far too busy kowtowing to their AIPAC buddies to worry about turning their sole ally in the region into an enemy.

It wasn’t an execution it was a frenzied violent attack in which an American teenager was murdered.

Legally the Israelis have put themselves and their commandos in the situation of having to choose amongst some very unpleasant alternatives.

We learnt today that the crème de la crème of the Israeli military can only manage to “win” against unarmed civilians with extreme difficulty.

The discovery of another “secret prison” in Baghdad is alarming. There are fears that this one is linked to the Interior Ministry and that the campaign against former armed forces members is re-starting.

As I sat frozen with horror in front of the screen something that my friend Laith The Imam wrote a while before he was lured to his death echoed and re-echoed through my mind.

If you try to imagine a very easily made jam that tastes like a spreadable mulled wine. Tastes very good and makes a good Christmas present — if you can bear to give it away.

One of my favourite fruit curry recipes. The quantities here are for one. The recipe multiplies up nicely.