The Hindu : News / International : New twist to row over Lockerbie bomber’s release

I’ll be honest, I don’t know much about the case and whether he was actually proven guilty beyond doubt. When Megrahi’s appeal against the initial sentence was turned down, a U.N. observer stated that the trial hadn’t been fair and that there had been a “miscarriage of justice”. Given this I feel a little bit sorry for Megrahi.

The going’s been bad for him and its probably got worse. 

Why? Because if BP were really wicked - and whether BP was wicked enough to arm twist 10DS is probably going to be investigated shortly - it might try and send hitmen to knock out Megrahi. It’s an extreme line of thought but BP is a proud organisation and it has its back against a wall.

And Big Oil comes with shady pasts.

I don’t agree with U.S.’ level of involvement though. The U.N. / ICJ should propose an investigation, not the U.S.

Nashwa Nasreldin went to an international school in Kuwait in 1990. An Egyptian, she was one of thousands of school children, expatriate and native, who at the beginning of summer bid their classmates goodbye, promising to return in September to exchange anecdotes and catch up on the interesting things they had done, where they had been and interesting people they had met.

That never happened. In August that year, Iraq invaded Kuwait. 

Unbeknownst to them, they had bid their final farewells. 

Nashwa Nasreldin returned to Kuwait many years later as a reporter. She had an interesting story to tell and working with Al Jazeera, she had the resources to shape it. As the twentieth anniversary of the invasion passed by last week, Al Jazeera aired her report - the story of what happened to The Class of 1990.

Many of us have our stories to tell on the invasion. I was young but the events were radical, so they were imprinted in my memory. As years passed by and I realised how significant those events were, my memories of them became rooted deeper and deeper. I remember them like it were yesterday. I returned to my former school once since 1990, and saddened to find it had been converted into a fish market. I lost nearly all contact with four of my closest friends, and even in today’s highly connected world I have been unable to trace down three of them. 

In war, you’ll take losing a friend.

Aside: K. Sankaran, the professor at TAPMI I connected with best, and whom I revered not only for his intellectual capacity and ability to capture abstract concepts through animated dialogue, would often quote R. W. Emerson,
 

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to use with a certain alienated majesty”

So Kuwait now has its own oil slick to show: PixelEyesed

Its spill season, and that’s never a good thing.

Saw it on Mark’s blog.

In Reason’s observatory the tongue and the ear
Are the rising and setting of the speech’s moon. 

Any ideas for interesting things to do in Paris?

Amazon’s Kindle is coming to the UK (and the world). It’s a new version, thinner and lighter than v2 - and best of all, cheaper.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002LVUWFE

I’m a little skeptical thought because they don’t seem to have the books that I want to read on it yet. Like Akbarnama, for instance. It is 2000+ pages long, so I do really want a mobile version to take on my trips.

It releases only later this month, so I’ll cross the bridge when it arrives. For those of you who are convinced, you can pre-order now.

I don’t have a good enough reason to start this blog now, but I’m hoping one will surface in due time, hopefully before my motivation to keep it alive dies away.

I know. It’s happened before.