January 31, 2005
And another one
Another shootout this morning, supposedly the Kuwaiti police caught the "spiritual leader" of the cell.
Five killed in Kuwait gunfight, militants' spiritual chief arrested
And from BBC
January 30, 2005
Bad Guys, Good Guys
The shootout here yesterday was in an area a few minutes from where we live, behind one of the stores where we do our grocery shopping. I didn't really like that store anyway.
Militant, Policeman Killed in Kuwait Gunbattle
Wonder if he watched it on CNN
A lot happening today, voting in Iraq and another shootout here in Kuwait. For the vote in Iraq, it'll probably be a few days before we know how it went. I just hope that someone turned on the TV for Saddam today and let him watch the Iraqi people voting.
January 28, 2005
Petra - City of Rock
We made our way down to Petra on our first day in Jordan. We actually had a long and winding road down the King's Highway, and then went to Petra on our second day.
This is the "Treasury" building, the first major building you see when you walk out of the narrow gorge entrance to Petra.
A large theatre was carved out of the rock. I wonder what they did there. Rock concerts?
January 27, 2005
Karak Castle
On the way down the King's Highway from Amman to Petra, we stopped at Karak Castle, a crusador fort built in 1142.
January 25, 2005
What Moses Saw
Denise and I just got back from Jordan. We went to a few places, I'll post some pictures over the next few days. This first batch is from Mt. Nebo, where Moses came and looked over the Promised Land.
This is a mosaic on the floor of the church at Mt. Nebo.
And these are views from Mt. Nebo, looking down over Jordan into the West Bank and Israel. Just as Moses saw, except without the paved road.
January 11, 2005
In the News...
2 Kuwaiti Policemen Killed in Shootout - KUNA
Armed Men Kill 2 in Kuwait - Al-Jazeerah
January 10, 2005
Star Academy
The Information Minister here in Kuwait, Mohammed Abul-Hassan, resigned this past week, for a number of reasons. Some say that it was linked to the Information Ministry's allowing some concerts by the Lebanese-based Star Academy.
So tonight, I'm playing with our Orbit satellite network, and managed to pull in another 100 channels or so, of mostly arabic TV. I managed to pull in the Star Academy channel. They were doing some arabic-english version of "Fame". It hurt, but I had to watch it.
January 09, 2005
More Kuwaiti Blogs
Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, etc, etc. No New Year's resolutions, but will try to write more in general.
Been reading more of the Kuwaiti blogs recently. Here's a good one:
And this one, Indefinitely Defineless, had a great entry about the Kuwaiti Weekend, here's an excerpt:
"The gangs of male kids, who are all trying to be on the cutting edge of fashion yet simultaneously unaware of how similar they all look, meet. All of the Hamoods and their first male cousins, who are also called Hamood, are feeling lucky in scoring big..." Read More