Bitácora Herren

El Pa??s reports today that eighteen of twenty-four individuals charged with crimes related to Al Qaeda activities were sentenced today in Madrid. The most significant of the sentences was of Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah. Dahdah was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment for conspiracy in the New York 9-11 attacks, as […]

An El Pa??s editorial suggests that the Bush administration is “flooded by its own incompetence” with respect to the natural disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina. The author finds it especially incompetent, given that the storm which finally struck the coast was weaker than that which had been predicted. The author continues, pointing out that only […]