
below is a piece I wrote for Asia Times Online 10 years ago tomorrow in the wake of then President Barack Obama’s assassination by drone of ‘Sheikh’ Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born Sunni cleric-cum-online firebrand who was killed in Yemen…
New York- I have the lead story in today’s edition of Asia Times Online about the hearing of KSM and Khallad at Guantánamo on Saturday, the killing of Fahd-al Quso in southern Yemen (or South Yemen if you prefer) by…
Thira- Sitting here in the very tranquil village of Karterados on the island of Thira in the Santorini archipelago is an uneasy contrast the strikes and protests rocking mainland Greece. The country is on the verge of bankruptcy which is…