New York had a very lucky escape indeed last Sunday when the car bomb left in Times Square failed to detonate and was defused after an alert local raised the alarm. The US authorities also got lucky in arresting the prime suspect Faisal Shahzad because, as the New York Timesreports today, at least two significant lapses by both the government and the airline involved almost allowed him to get clean away. As we are now learning, Shahzad was trained in bomb-making in Waziristan, and a number of people are being questioned in Pakistan in connection with this attack. This despite the... Sometimes the sharpest perspective comes from far away. I was struck by this story by John Barnes in the New York Times. Under the headline Immigration Could Sway Coming Vote in Britain he reports: LUTON, England — When Mohammed Qurban stood outside the Jamia mosque in the heavily Muslim Bury Park district on Tuesday and spoke anxiously about ... Continue reading...Wednesday, 5th May 2010
More in common than we like to think...
The view from America
5:06pm
‘We have something in common’, said the New York taxi-driver to me after I had given him the address in the city where I was going. ‘The same bastards want to hurt your country and mine’.
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