Barbarians of Fallujah

Marines found the butchered body of a foreign woman in the street. Arms and legs hacked off, disemboweled, her throat slashed, and decomposing. And it seems the barbarians hauled out her decomposing body just in order to throw it into the street for the Marines to find.

In the south of the city, where insurgents regrouped over the weekend, the butchered body of a blonde-haired Caucasian woman was found Sunday lying on a street.

"It is a female ... missing all four appendages, with a slashed throat and disemboweled, she has been dead for a while but only in this location for a day or two," said a Navy Corps hospital apprentice who had inspected the body.

Two foreign women have been abducted in Iraq and remain missing: Teresa Borcz, 54, a Pole, has blonde hair, and British aid worker Margaret Hassan, 59, has chestnut-coloured hair.

Mubarak eulogizes Arafat

At dawn, we lost President Yasser Arafat, who we knew as a defender of justice, as a man who strove towards peace, and resisted occupation, and as a man who looked for international legitimacy.
History will judge him as a brave man who defended his people.

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
Holy Effin' Crap! No he was not!
He was a blood-sucking terrorist who ruined his people's future. Jesus Christ, Mubarak. Defender of justice???? and this is a country that supposedly has a peace treaty with Israel. Feh.

Yahoo UK disrespecting President Bush

This was on the front page of yahoo.co.uk today. I find it disrespectful. Do we make jokes about the resemblance of the name of the president of Indonesia to that of a Flintstones character?
Does Yahoo UK intend to mock the overwhelmingly ugly face of the old terrorist Yasser Arafat?
If not then why not? Oh I get it -- because Bush is eeeeeevilllll.

Europe seethes

Some choice comments from the BBC News site:

The voice of America indeed - but which America? How so many people voted for Bush is mind-boggling. An absolute disaster. This is a tragic day for our planet and for all of us, wherever we live.
Raymond Perrez, Toulouse, France

If Bush wins, as it seems now, we will have more problems. For the world it's a sad day. The conflicts with Europe will widen. And the hatred against the US will also widen. Just hope for 2008 and Hillary Clinton.
Peter, Gothenburg, Sweden

It is "almost" unbelievable that the American people have once again chosen to allow Bush control of power for another four years. I feel as though they have turned their back on the international community, that they have forgotten that the world is small place, where America's actions affect us all.
Jennifer, Canadian living in Munich, Germany

I am not a US voter but my wife is. It is unbelievable how many Americans voted for Bush again regardless their experiences from the last 4 years. If Bush wins again that is bad news for the rest of the world.
Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh, Scotland

I just woke up to find Bush in the lead. I feel physically sick. I wish I could go back to bed and get up in another four years.
Sarah, Brussels

Well it looks like we have to put up with another four years of Bush. I think that in a country like America, it was naive to believe that Bush would lose elections. I think most Americans approve of the arrogance that Bush portrays to the world. Today, I wish Soviet Union never disintegrated and there would have been some balance still in this world.
Let's hope Bush learns from the mistakes made in the first term and we get a more peaceful and balanced world in the next four years. Maybe just like Reagan, Bush would be less radical in the next term. What's funny, except for America, Kerry would certainly have won an election anywhere else in the world.
HA Qureshi, Islamabad, Pakistan