September 4, 2025 Zia-ul-Haq was a great leader of Pakistan, a tough tank general, and the man who defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan. He was murdered in August 1988 when the C-130 he was flying in was sabotaged and crashed near Bahawalpur, central Pakistan. I spent a good deal of […]
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August 14, 2025 The last time I was in Washington DC I came out of my downtown hotel near the White House and asked the doorman which way to walk to a certain restaurant. ‘Turn left you will be fine,’ he said. ‘Turn right and you may be murdered.’ This […]
August 8, 2025 Israel’s savaging of Gaza has now inflicted over 61,000 dead. This is close to the generally accepted death toll from the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in Sept 1945. Nagasaki was hit with the second atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. Its hilly topography prevented even […]
