Dec
27
Benazir Bhutto Assassinated
Filed Under Middle East | 2 Comments
Bad news for the Middle East, CNN is reporting that Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.
Pakistan former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has died after a suicide bombing that killed at least 14 of her supporters, ex-government spokesman Tariq Azim Khan and Pakistan’s primary television networks said.
Bhutto suffered bullet wounds in the aftermath of the bomb attack, TV networks report.
Video of the scene just moments before the explosion showed Bhutto stepping into a heavily-guarded vehicle to leave the rally.
Nov
19
‘United Like A Single Fist’
Filed Under Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East, politics | Comments Off
Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have joined forces and are now “united like a single fist.”
“Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist,” Chavez said upon his arrival in Tehran, according to Venezuela’s state-run Bolivarian News Agency.
“God willing, with the fall of the dollar, the deviant U.S. imperialism will fall as soon as possible, too,” Chavez said after a two-hour closed meeting with Ahmadinejad, the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported.
