Author: observer393

MOst New Year celebrations in Bangkok were cancelled after a series of bomb explosions that left at least three dead and more injured. From the Nation (Thailand):  String of blasts rock Bangkok, killing 2 New Year’s...

With Fouad Siniora’s cabinet hiding in the Grand Serail behind acres of razor wire and thousands of troops – a veritable “green zone” in the heart of Beirut – the largely Shia Muslim opposition,...

Well it looks like it is all a done deal. The information we have is that the army and police are united and in control of the country and PM Thaksin and his cabinet are either out of the country, under arrest or in hiding....

In a slowly breaking story it seems that Israeli commandos and warplanes have been in a joint offensive operation in the Bekaa Valley according to Al Jazeera: Media reports quoted Lebanese security sources as saying on Saturday...

From todays Independent Robert Fisk has another excellent piece where he argues the war starts today. He also has a very different perspective of what has been happening militarily on the ground in the last 48 hours from what...