A horrible and rather confusing story has emerged of an Italian humanitarian volunteer and peace activist, who was visiting Gaza to help the Palestinians and who was abducted by an al-Qaeda related gang of Muslims and then hung. Some of the grizzly footage was posted to youtube by his attackers.
If that sounds muddled, it’s because it is. The Italian (Vittario Arrigoni, 36) was in Gaza because he was campaigning for Hamas. Hamas is a peaceful Palestinian organization that doesn’t like the radical Islamic splinter groups which exist around them, because they put all Palestinians in a bad light. The same way the BNP party can sometimes put Britain in a bad light.
Not long ago, Hamas arrested the leader of one of these groups for being a violent nutter. Two members of this group then kidnapped Arrigoni and apparently threatened to kill him unless Hamas agreed to release their boss. Sadly, rescuers didn’t reach them in time and Arrigoni became the latest ill-fated good guy to lose his life whilst trying to help others.
Moussa Koussa is off the hook for his suspected role in the 1988 Lockerbie (Scotland) bombing due to lack of evidence. He probably won’t be coming back to the UK because no one likes him here, and the same goes for him returning to Libya. Apparently, he is currently staying in Qatar, as a guest of their royal family. Qatar is one of the Arab countires who joined the Western coalition agasint Gaddafi.
Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama have all pledged not to cease Nato attacks on Gaddafi unless he steps down from power. You’d think this would be happening any time now. Not according to Gaddafi, who was filmed being driven round Tripoli today with his head sticking out of the sunroof, pumping his fists and grinning with (deluded) defiance.
Back to Blighty now – and news has emerged that more than 1 in 8 Brits alive today were born overseas. Enough to fill the whole of London apparently. And certainly enough to fill the hearts of racists all over the country with abject horror.
Protests have erupted over the BBC’s decision to broadcast a documentary this summer about assisted suicide. In it, cameras follow the last days of a terminally ill man who kills himself at the Digitas clinic in Switzerland – one of the few places in the Western world where this is legal.
Critics claim the BBC is setting a bad example. Critics of those critics argue that even our pets are permitted to leave this realm with more dignity, and that people should have the right to go the same way if they want to.
And finally, speaking of leaving this realm… Walter Breuning – the world’s oldest man at 114 – died today of natural causes. He sounds like he was a thoroughly good chap, so I’ll leave you with some of his last words:
“Everybody says that the mind is the most important part of your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time.”
Good evening.
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