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"I Am Lars Vilks!" Leftbanker
I am a terrible artist, as you can see, but I think that it’s the thought that counts. It’s difficult to tell whether the body is a rat, a dog, or a squirrel.
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Bill Maher on 9/11 conspiracy theories
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"Collapse of Legitimacy
in Pakistan? Negotiations in Afghanistan?"
Informed Comment Global Affairs
Ahmed Rashid, writing in the Telegraph, draws a link between the two. The U.S. (or the West), he writes, is desperate to broker a "loveless marriage" between General Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto:
So that the general can combat the terrorists and the lady play democracy. This, they hope, can keep the crumbling edifice of military rule going for a few more years or at least until Osama bin Laden is winkled out of his home in the tribal regions of North and South Waziristan.
But he goes on:
That is where the whole plan falls apart because in a country like Pakistan, a failing state hovering over the abyss, there are too many loose ends to tie up.
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Great ally of the US not great ally of freedom
Pakistanis burning
the Swedish flag and a dummy of Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt. Appearently
they ran out of bald, conservative, Clinton-loving outfits.
"Sweden 'regrets' Prophet cartoon" BBC Middle East
Sweden's embassy in Pakistan has expressed regret over the publication of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a Swedish newspaper.
Pakistan had complained about the cartoon, which depicted the head of the Prophet on the body of a dog.
Sweden's government said it regretted any hurt but could not apologise as it was not responsible for the drawing and could not prevent its publication.
Not to be outdone, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed it all on a zionistic conspiracy (no really, he did). Ron Paul could not be reached for a comment.
