Listen to the words of a cargo handler at London’s airport, spoken while he cleared freight I shipped to Yemen last year: “Those people are backwards and they don’t want to change. As far as I’m concerned, I couldn’t care less what happens to them.”
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Fear is a funny thing. Along with other Commonwealth citizens, Jean and I were recently informed that most staff members of the British Embassy here are leaving and that we should consider the same.
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It’s Valentine’s Day. Great fun. Two years ago today, I proposed to Jean. Her ring was presented in a restaurant, with the help of the official town crier, his booming voice, clanging bell and scroll. Moments later, along with thousands of others in London, Ont., we heard about our upcoming “royal wedding” on the radio.
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Chalk up a victory for misguided tolerance in the recent flap with Lebanon’s ambassador to Canada, Raymond Baaklini.
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And now, for a change, some good news from the Arabian Peninsula.
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Jarring images of how an Islamic extremist burst into, of all places, a hospital in the last days of 2002, to fire bullets from his Kalishnikov into the heads of our friends will linger for a while. My wife Jean and I and some colleagues are still laying to rest what has become known across Yemen as ‘The Jibla Tragedy.’
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SANA’A, YEMEN ✦ The Yanks. We love ’em. We hate ’em.
Indeed, Jean and I are still recovering from the news of the brutal slaying of threeU.S.aid workers, including a doctor friend, at Jibla missionary hospital.
The killer, apparently an Islamic extremist, reportedly said he killed “to get closer to God.” Right.
And who better to kill than American Christians? It’s killing two birds, innocent as they may be, with one stone.
Indeed,U.S.foreign policy really has folks in a huff these days. In fact, many of us would bend over backward to disassociate ourselves from the Yanks. No?
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It didn’t take long for what started out like a normal day in our household to turn into the day from hell.
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