Alerts for Later Update Suicide terrorism, religion not linked; Byfield on 'Christian activists' line; Prisoners abused Koran

Patricia Wilson reports for Reuters on poli sci prof Robert Pape's findings that suicide terrorists don't fit the putative profile of stunted, abused children now grown up to become emotionally-crippled adult misfits, needing to bomb; but rather he sees the terrorists as merely fierce nationalists wanting to liberate their specific nation of foreign occupation (use blue title link above, for this one). On another matter, Ted Byfield writes in World Net Daily on the absurdity of The Globe & Mail's lead story a bit ago that a clandestinate conspiracy of 'Christian activists' are out to take-over the Conservative Party of Canada for themselves. A third important news item: CNN reports "Detainees, not soldiers, flushed Quran" - I heard the edited anti-US version of the story on the 11 o'clock TV news last nite, that's yer unbiased Canadian CTV channel, folks; but this element of the origin of the urine and its indirect transmision was completely dropped - so that the story sounded as tho only Americans are to fault; but even the piss story is best heard in the full version, because there we learn from CNN, no less, how that nasty ol' Cuban sea-breeze wind blew some Yank's outdoors spray, toward a ventilator, and inside on the other side of the afflicted vent a prisoner had been laying near that particular ventilator to catch the same sea's breeze, and some pee spray blew in on that particular gust and onto the open page of the Quran the priz was readin'. Of course, on TV the story sounded like some Yank just grabbed up a copy and had a purpissful whiz on it. Inferring, CTV did, Gitmo may not be a Gulag as Amnesty International claims quite recently, but Gitmo's surely some kinda AbuGhraib. AbuGhraib II, or Abu Ghraib - the Sequel. Gee whiz! Q-whiz! On a more serious note, "China must confront dark past, says Mao confidant", according to Jonathan Watts in Beijing for The Guardian (London, UK). - Owlb