Friday, June 02, 2006

Headlines of the day

The deadliest war you never heard of...
Did you know four million people have died in the Congo, despite UN peacekeepers?
Why not?

And the Garden of Eden has been reflooded...It's Bush's fault (although the article doesn't bother to mention it)...

And this Australian interview shows the problem of live TV... (headsup from MilBlogs)...

Australian commander in East Timor Brigadier Michael Slater appeared this morning in a live cross from Dili to Channel 9's Today show, with helmeted and heavily armed Australian soldiers standing behind him.He was pressed by Today host Jessica Rowe about whether Dili really was as safe as the Australian military claimed, given the presence of armed soldiers at his shoulder.
Pausing briefly, Brig Slater replied: "Jessica I feel quite safe, yes, but not because I've got these armed soldiers behind me that were put there by your stage manager here to make it look good.






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