http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6517335.stm
Last Updated: Monday, 2 April 2007, 10:37 GMT 11:37 UK
"Iraq bomb explodes near school"
A suicide bomber has blown up a truck near a police station and a school in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at least 12 people.
More than 130 were injured in the blast, police said.
In other violence, the handcuffed bodies of 19 workers kidnapped north of Baghdad have been found.
US Senator John McCain, leading a congressional delegation to Baghdad, has insisted the US-Iraqi security crackdown in Baghdad is working.
The suicide bomber rammed a truck into concrete barriers surrounding Kirkuk's police criminal investigation department, detonating explosives that had been hidden under a load of flour.
At least 20 children who had been playing at a nearby school were among the wounded, Brig Gen Sarhat Qadir said, but he could not say how many."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/as_long_as_you_are_hated_its_b_1.html
April 02, 2007
"As long as you are hated, it's better to be feared"
By James Lewis
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Tehran isn't interested in loving the West, or even in tolerating us. If you doubt it, just listen to the Khomeini gang. Since the 1979 they've been yelling "Death to America! Death to Israel!" Have we not heard?
Even while the Brit Left is busily trying to figure out a way to blame America for Tehran's barefaced kidnapping of 15 UK Service personnel, The Telegraph is rediscovering common sense. In an editorial entitled, "If they hate us, let them also fear us" they are drawing the obvious conclusions.
No doubt a lot of Europeans were secretly glad that they were not the target of all that mass hatred. But of course that's simple self delusion. Khomeini and his followers were taught to hate the whole West, including Europe and America --- for its wealth, power, sexual openness, women's liberation, homosexual freedoms, capitalism, Christianity, its free press, its Marxoid intellectuals, and for conquering Andaluz in 1495. (If you forgot how we conquered Andaluz and drove out the Muslims, Ahmadinejad hasn't. Nor has Osama Bin Laden.)
In fact, Europe has very conveniently blacked out its own history."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/03/31/dl3101.xml
"If the Iranians hate us, let them also fear us"
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 31/03/2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "It is one thing to be disliked; quite another to be despised. Iran would not have kidnapped our Servicemen without having considered our rules of engagement, our diplomatic isolation and our likely military response, and made a rough calculation of how likely they were to get away with their piracy.
There was a time when British citizenship afforded a degree of protection from foreign harassment."