In Mideast, marriage too can be a battlefield

The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies.

[Burt]

Casual Observer had to go to Cyprus to marry his goat.

[Bronx Boy]

Waste of time. There is no law requiring marriage in order to live together. Lot's of people do it.

[Eleanor]

Good for them for going to a country that appreciates freedom of religion (or is it freedom 'from' religion).

[Lance Winslow]

Eleanor wrote:

Good for them for going to a country that appreciates freedom of religion (or is it freedom 'from' religion).

Cypriot Greeks and Turks have been celebrating freedom of religion with gunfire for centuries.

[bush derangement syndrome]

A terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia has raised fresh concerns about airline security after the bomber detonated an explosive device concealed in his anal cavity.

The terrorist, a wanted militant from al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsular (AQAP), pretended to renounce terrorism and repent in order to get close to Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister who leads the kingdom's counter-terrorism campaign.

In the attack on August 28, the bomber obliterated himself but the prince survived shaken but unharmed.

AQAP claimed credit for the attack in an internet statement but was coy about the method, declaring: "No one will be able to know the type of this device or the way it was detonated."

But United States private sector intelligence group Stratfor said the terrorist adopted the novel tactic of concealing an improvised explosive device (IED) in his anal cavity. This is a technique more often used by drug mules.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute national security policy director Dr Carl Ungerer said this was still a bomb but one delivered by a different method.

"It does pose real issues for airline security if the bomb is inside the person," he said.

"That's why perhaps there is now going to be a real push for these scanning type machines."

[clone benson]

90% never will make it, mixing religions, once embedded,go figure