by Charles Cameron | Oct 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — reading the Quran & hadith concerning the fates of Fr Hanna Jallouf, Alan Hemming, and Peter Kassig ] . L-to-R: hostages Fr Hanna Jallouf, Alan Hemming, and Peter Kassig ** I rejoice that Jabhat al-Nusra has released the Franciscan...
by zen | Aug 6, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] John Robb had a cool post on the ultra-radical takfiri insurgency ISIS/ISIL and their self-proclaimed Sunni “Caliphate“, the Islamic State, whom he gave as an example of “the cockroaches of war”:...
by zen | Jul 15, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson When I first posted that I had received a review copy of American Spartan from Callie, it stirred a vigorous...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some more reasons to take note of the religious aspects of the Ukraine / Crimea / Russia situation ] . It’s not as though I can keep on top of the situation, but I can at least jot down for you some URLs that will exphasize the...
by zen | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] There is much ado about a prospective Western (i.e. American) aerial campaign to bomb the Iranian allied Alawite-Baathist dictatorship Syria over use of chemical weapons against primarily al Qaida allied Sunni Islamist...