Everything About Death And Violence And Then One Thing About Jay-Z
Total body count was 13—with another 30 injured—at Ft. Hood yesterday. The gunman survived after being shot four times. [ New York Times ]
Speaking of the gunman, Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, here is a lengthy biographical portrait. [ Washington Post ]
An important Afghan governor and his militia and their rocket launchers are challenging the legitimacy of new president Hamid Karzai. [ WSJ ]
British PM Gordon Brown—and his soldiers and their implied rocket launchers—also threatened Afghanistan to just, you know, it's enough already with the corruption. [ AP ]
The Pakistani Army invaded a Taliban alcove in lawless, mountainy South Waziristan, presumably also a stop on Sarah Palin's book tour . [ Reuters ]
So apparently a giant wall (of symbolism?) was blocking everyone's view at the Jay-Z/Beyonce/U2 performance at the Brandenburg Gate at last night's fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall-themed concert. [ Daily Mail ]