The Next Leader of the Free World (w/ election night pics from Berlin)

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Sunday November 09, 2008 · 11:28 AM PST

2008/11/09 · 11:28

hope, change & love
(outside the US embassy election party in Berlin)

Normally I'm sceptical about America's claims to leadership, but Barack "The Handsome" Obama might actually be deserving of the title. It was evident when in his victory speech he talked about 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper from Atlanta and the progress she has witnessed in her long life. Obama is living proof that Dr. King's dream is true in America today.

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Saturday March 12, 2005 · 3:25 PM PST

2005/03/12 · 15:25

[Disclaimer up front: I'm not from the US, but from Germany.]

I'd like to point your attention at a BBC News article from two hours ago:

Four die in gun spree at US hotel

Four people have been shot dead and up to eight others hurt by a gunman who opened fire at a US hotel, reports say.

The gunman shot and killed himself after the shooting spree.

[...]

Up to eight people with a range of injuries were taken to hospital. The dead and injured ranged in age from teenagers to the over-60s, police said.

(Emphasis mine)

More below. Read More

Allawi allegedly killed 6 terrorist suspects

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Wednesday January 19, 2005 · 3:48 PM PST

2005/01/19 · 15:48

Jon Lee Anderson, a reporter for The New Yorker, writes in a recent dossier about Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, that he shot 6 terrorist suspects in a Baghdad prison. The killings took place about a week before Allawi took office in June last year. Read More

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Allawi allegedly killed 6 terrorist suspects