Via Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: A German court has lifted the ban on the deportation of the “Caliph of Cologne” — Kalif von Köln. Granted asylum in Germany in 1992, Metin Kaplan later proclaimed the caliphate of Cologne and was then convicted of “calling for murder” (Mordaufruf) in 2000. Since then the government has been trying to get him out of Germany.
I have no idea who Princess Louise is/was, but the cool good guys from last week in Iraq were her “Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,” who, if you didn’t catch the story already, initiated and very successfully completed the first British bayonette charge in over 20 years. Read about it. And let’s not forget those who preceded them:
I know it is terribly unfashionable in this post-historical age to think there is anything special or sacred about military tradition and values. Things like discipline, for example. Yet in this Washington Post exclusive story about the possibility that General Sanchez was present at Abu Ghraib when torture was inflicted during interrogations, we have a Brigadier General (Karpinski) giving interviews and posing suggestive questions: