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Cameron’s nightmare
“Things got out of hand & we’d had a few drinks. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets,” today’s British Premier David Cameron told a gathering at Oxford in 1986.
During the recent rioting in London, the same man said, “The looting and arson last night were criminality, pure and simple. Justice will be done and the people will see the consequences for their crimes.”
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Murder in Somalia
Over 29,000 children have died of hunger in Somalia, a neighboring country of oil-rich Gulf region and a former colony of Italy, which sleeps over humanitarian situation here but was swift to attack Gaddafi’s military bases in Libya.The worst famine in six decades has spread to five regions in the Horn of Africa with little hope over the next four to six weeks. The United Nations describes a situation as famine when at least 20 per cent of households face food shortages so severe that they are unable to cope with it.
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Beyond Oslo
Anders Behring Breivik is an answer to the racism question being posed to Europe for over decades. Rarely do the western media term him a terrorist who pronounced clear-cut agenda backed by meticulously crafted ideological doctrine. Conflicting reports from the Norway’s crime scene dispute the term ‘lone wolf’ as he might have been aided by one or two other terrorists. The perpetrator has no qualms about his gruesome act and demands a peculiar kind of uniform to wear during court hearings.
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‘Unlikely’ terrorist
A decade after 9/11, Norway made headlines for unlikely reasons. Twin terror acts in premier’s summer office claiming nearly 100 lives, scores missing and dozens hospitalized. Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator, has created a new profile of terrorist for security agencies worldwide: blonde, European and Christian. The previous and widely stereotyped profile of terrorist defined him as bearded, black or wheatish and Muslim.
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Scar on journalism
Repute of journalism worldwide has been torpedoed. The Paparazzi chased Princess of the People Lady Diana to death about a decade and half ago in Paris, France. Nothing came in the way of their fearsome power. A decade later, their cousins hacked the voicemail of a 13-year-old murder victim and also the kins of fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Deleting old messages from her cell phone memory generated false hope about the victim’s life, an inhumane thing to do with the distressed family.
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Merci European angels!
Over a year after the bloody attack on humanitarian aid ship, Mavi Marmara in the high seas near Gaza, Israel had adopted more cunning ways to thwart the second flotilla. The blood of 9 peace activists at the hands of Israeli commandoes inspired hundreds other worldwide to buy airline tickets and land at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport. While some vessels in the second flotilla have developed mysterious malfunctions others have been detained by the Greece port authorities, Welcome to Palestine or ‘flytilla campaign’ has left the Israeli authorities battered.
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