From the Jerusalem Post: “Syria to Expel Terror Leaders” Bowing to international pressure, Syria has ordered head of Hamas politburo Khaled Mashaal and Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah to leave Damascus. YOU ARE DRIVING GOVERNMENTS OF THE REGION RIGHT INTO THE ARMS OF THE TERRORISTS AND THEIR ENABLERS, MR BUSH!  YOUR INVASION OF IRAQ AND YOUR SO-CALLED “WAR ON TERROR” ARE THE SINGLE GREATEST GIFT YOU COULD HAVE GIVEN AL

From Bloomberg News: Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian reporter wounded on March 4 by U.S.-led forces after she was freed from her captors in Iraq, said the military may have targeted her deliberately. Question 1: why? Sgrena, 57, who had been held for one month in captivity, was injured and Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari was killed when coalition forces fired on their vehicle as it approached a Baghdad checkpoint. Writing

The Democrats’ march toward unintentional self-parody continues… For immediate release. Dear Colleague: Please join us in introducing the attached resolution, which requires the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security to turn over all documentation in their possession about how James Guckert (also known as Jeff Gannon) gained access to White House press events. For nearly three years, the White House has been granting Mr. Guckert, a right-wing activist with

Released Italian “hostage” Giuliana Sgrena, whose vehicle the US military claims to have fired upon after it failed to slow down at a Coalition checkpoint, is denying the US version of events—a denial the Jawa Report isn’t buying:1 Suspicion continues to mount that Giuliana Sgrena, the journalist for the Italian Communist paper Il Manifesto, either faked her own abduction or became an accomplice after the fact with her jihadi captors.

Meanwhile, in more substantive news….yesterday I linked to Declan McCullagh’s CNET interview with FEC commissioner Bradley Smith. Today, former editor of Insight Magazine and Washington Times reporter Paul Rodriguez interviews Smith on Rightalk Radio. Full disclosure:  My affiliation with Rightalk radio is strictly platonic. **** update:  Kossacks call for attacks on controversial HARD-RIGHT IDEOLOGUE Alan Greenspan; Americablog’s John Aravosis, fresh off his Jeff Gannon outing, said to be scouring the

Hey!  This ain’t Penthouse Forum, people.  I mean, I’m an artist, for chrissakes…

The Jawa report is your one-stop link dump for news and commentary on Giuliana Sgrena, the anti-American Italian reporter taken hostage(?) in February and released today by her Iraqi captors, the little-known Islamic Jihad Organisation. *** update: Breaking:  U.S. Fires on Freed Journalist

From the BBC: Russian prosecutors say they have arrested four people in connection with the school siege in Beslan last year, which left more than 330 people dead. Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel said the four were suspected of helping plan the siege in North Ossetia and other attacks in Ingushetia. He said five other suspects were killed as they resisted arrest. A BBC regional analyst says the Russian authorities

for Martha Stewart And I have known the eyes already, known them all— The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?       And how should I presume? **** The Almost-Complete Martha Chronicles