“What’s great about Gaza - you see a person on a path, he doesn’t have to be armed, you can simply shoot him. In our case it was an old woman on whom I did not see any weapon when I looked. The order was to take down the person, this woman, the minute you see her. There are always warnings, there is always the saying, ‘Maybe he’s a terrorist.’ ( Read more... )

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The nominee for Deputy Secretary of Defense, the chief operating officer of the Pentagon, is a lobbyist for Raytheon. William Lynn is due $1.5 million in payouts for his work lobbying for the defense industry ( Read more... )

I was praying last night for all those who suffer from armed conflict and made a list of all I could think of:

Israel and Palestine;
Sri Lanka;
Philipines;
Congo;
Sudan;
Armenia and Azerbaijan;
Iraq;
Afghanistan.

I am wondering if I've missed any? Please let me know (with news links, if possible) if I have.

[EDIT: Forgot Tibet.]