Musings of a modern guy

The fight over who is a terrorist or not is a serious issue. In the current situation, if you catch suspects, and if they are Muslims involved in suspicious activities, thoughts will always move to whether the person is guilty or not. And that is the crux of the matter. Either people are caught in […]

This must be the greatest failure of President Bush’s watch. The most powerful man of the world, with an incredibly powerful military and an awesome economic backing behind him, has been unable to break an organization composed of some people. It becomes even more incredulous when you start wondering as to how the Government of […]

In positive news for Hamas, they finally managed to rescue the captured BBC Reporter, Alan Johnston. He had been held for over 4 months captivity in the premises of Gaza’s Dogmush clan, supposed to be close to the Fatah movement. Hamas has been looking to do this for some time to re-establish its claim of […]

In a reversal of a previous decision, the Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from Guantanamo inmates challenging their detention. It always seems something like what a banana republic will do; arrest people and put them in jail, for what seems like an indefinite time interval. No trial, no promise of a conviction that would […]

The situation in the Gaza Strip and West Bank has become more clearer, although not more rational. The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, dissolved the Hamas led joint government, and swore in an emergency cabinet led by Salam Fayyad, who is a technocrat. The aim being to form a Government that is acceptable to the international […]

Effectively, the Palestinians are now split into 2 lands, with the Gaza being in control of Hamas and the West Bank being in control of Fatah. These 2 organizations, full of militants and terrorists, have fought a major battle with each other and are unlikely to coordinate and cooperate with each other. This may be […]