News roundup

The Israelis have killed the appropriately named Adnan al-Ghoul, number two in Hamas' "military wing." He was a bombmaker and inventor of the Qassam rocket, a guerilla weapon used against the Israelis.

The U.N. has declined to train judges for Saddam's trial because he could get the death penalty under Iraqi law. Who needs 'em? I'd just let a Sharia judge try him and then behead him in public. When in Baghdad, . . .

If Iraq is to have a democracy, it had better learn to ignore the U.N. Otherwise, it'll become a colony of the EU. Iraqis should hate the French, after they did everything they could to keep Saddam in power, short of actually using military force. Of course, the most powerful thing the French are willing to use is contempt.

Lastly, another Brit NGO employee snivels for her homeland to abandon the Iraqi people to save her pitiful life. I think the West has about a million and a half lives to lose before we suffer anything like the suffering Saddam inflicted on his fellow Arabs. I hate to see anyone murdered by these thugs, but she wanted to be a hero and serve the Iraqi people. Sometimes it takes more heroism than you counted on. Maybe all NGOs should require employees to sign a release in the future. You can't place national leaders in this kind of a spot. It's not fair to them and it only helps the terrorists. She was probably one of those who thought the inmates at Guantanamo were being inhumanely treated. Now she knows what real inhumanity is.