Lee on Nov 04 2008 | Filed under: Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology
Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website)
Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner as suicide missile, but no less remarkable as a demonstration of the the transnational terrorist group’s [...]
Lee on Aug 03 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The National Women’s Committee of the Yemeni government is finally calling for an end to child brides. Their proposal is to reset the minimum marriage age at 18. The official legal age for marriage is 15 in Yemen, but loopholes have allowed girls as young as 10 to wed.
While in Saudi Arabia, a religious policeman [...]
Joshua Foust on Apr 17 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
Over at Jezebel, my friend Moe scored a great interview with Sarah, an American woman who relocated to Yemen to work at a newspaper there.
No talking in the street, no laughing…what if you just went into the middle of the street and laid a really loud fart? Do you get caned for laughing, like in [...]
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