Archive for the ‘terrorism’ Category
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The Fly Swat
Posted on January 9, 2015
It all started with a fly swat. In the years following Napoleon’s demise in France, the last of the Bourbon Dynasty desperately tried to hold on to power. Charles X...
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Pakistani Crack-Pots
Posted on December 17, 2014
When it was announced that the Pakistani Taliban slaughtered a bunch of school kids earlier this week, my mind immediately turned to Adam Lanza. Lanza was the deranged teenager who...
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Moussaoui Might Be Crazy. And He Might Be Right.
Posted on November 17, 2014
When is it easy to believe a paranoid schizophrenic in the courtroom? When it is Zacarias Moussaoui and he tells you that a Saudi prince bankrolled the 9/11 attacks. Moussaoui,...
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Who Are These Guys?
Posted on September 1, 2014
Who are these guys? That’s the famous line from the classic movie, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. It could also be asked of the Sunni insurgency that has overtaken...
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Remembering a D-Day Anniversary
Posted on June 6, 2014
We were in Paris, having a couple of pints at the Harry’s American Bar, when we heard the news. Ronald Reagan had died....
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