3/13- President Bush said that in order to get the idea that the US is so soft and weak, the 9-11 terrorists must have gotten their information about us from watching the Jerry Springer show.

On a considerably less amusing note, the INS continues to bat 1000 in the total incompetence department. Six months after Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi murdered thousands of people in the World Trade Center, the INS APPROVED their student visas. This is the most stupid thing I've read in a long time.

3/13 - Victorious, US-led coalition forces continue mop up operations in Shah-e-kot, Afghanistan.

1/08- Gee, first everything is quiet, at least here in the US. Israel, of course, is another story. Suicide bombings, shootings everyday, and now terrorists are sneaking into private homes and murdering women and children in their beds. Nice folks. Europe loves them. Europe can keep them.

In the US yesterday, we had a bomb scare at the Winter Olympic facility in Utah, when a bunch of fuses and electrical devices, which I would guess were detonators, were found in a plastic bag in a parking garage. Police declared it a hoax, but was it really? Or was it yet another of those "test runs"?

Pablo Moreira, 28, a banker from Uruguay, jumped up on a flight from Miami to Buenos Aires yesterday, and proceded to kick and punch his way through a a vent in a reinforced, United Airlines cockpit door. He managed to get part of his body, including his head, through the vent...at which time a quick thinking co-pilot proceded to bean him with the blunt part of an emergency crash axe, knocking him cold. He was restrained for the rest of the flight to Brazil, where he was arrested and treated for his injuries. He will be extradited to the US, and is currenty charged for interefering with a flight crew.

1/07- A Muslim recruiter, who also happens to be a British National says from his new base in Pakistan that he is encouraging terrorists to attack British military and government targets within Britain itself. He claims that he and his buddies are in Pakistan, organizing operations.

1/07- The captain of a Iraqui ship caught carrying a shipment of arms from Iran, sonfirms that his orders came from the PLO. Yasser's assertions of innocence are looking a little silly. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has upgraded Yasser from the status of "irrelevant" to "bitter enemy".

1/02- Israeli Foreign Minister, Shimon Perez, has called on Israel to stop tarnishing PA leader Yasser Arafat's image. LOL. I assume this must be a diplomatic move which would allow Yasser to save face. Yasser himself has done his own image tarnishing, by words, only doing token action against domestic terrorists when the International community demands it strongly enough, and allowing, if not encouraging Palestinian TV to incite hatred toward Israel.

1/02- Not all Ireland's dissident groups have decided to change their image due to the war on terrorism. Both the US and the EU have frozen the assets of Loyalist Volunteer Force, Orange Volunteers, Red Hand Defenders, and the Ulster Defence Association. A a possible fifth may be the sister organization of the UDA, the Ulster Freedom Fighters.

1/02- We've all heard about Richard Reid, the self styled "sneaker bomber". Not a lot of new info on him.

12/17- A detailed plan for a terrorist attack on London's financial district was found in Kandahar. The plan is written in English, and explains how to make a remote controlled van bomb like the bombs used in the US embassy bombings. No one knows where the owner of the book is right now.

12/13- Yet another victim of the 9-11 attack on the US. Pat Flounders, 51 year old window of WTC victim Joe Flounders, 46. Joe Flounders was an insurance broker for Euro Brokers Inc. The company's offices were on the 84th floor of tower II. I can imagine how hard it's been, and now especially with Christmas coming up. God rest that poor woman's soul.