AL QAEDA CONNECTED TO SADDAM [Jonah Goldberg ] Will this be the real reason the American press turns on the new Iraqi leader?
Posted at 12:07 AM POPE APOLOGIZES [Jonah Goldberg ] For the sacking of Constantinople. I leave it to others around here to opine as to whether this was a good move. Posted at 12:05 AM THE KIDNAPPED MARINE [Jonah Goldberg ] May have been a deserter: BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 29 The American marine who is being threatened by his kidnappers with beheading had deserted the military because he was emotionally traumatized, and was abducted by his captors while trying to make his way home to his native Lebanon, a Marine officer said Tuesday. The officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he believed that Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun was betrayed by Iraqis he befriended on his base and ended up in the hands of Islamic extremists. The officer said Corporal Hassoun, a 24-year-old Marine linguist who was born in Lebanon, was shaken up after he saw one of his sergeants blown apart by a mortar shell. “It was very disturbing to him,” the officer said. “He wanted to go home and quit the game, but s
