30-May-11 News -- Decoration Day 2011

[John]

30-May-11 News -- Decoration Day 2011

Crisis civil wars -- the worst of the worst wars

** 30-May-11 News -- Decoration Day 2011
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... b#e110530b


** 30-May-11 World View -- Library of Congress opens the National Jukebox
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... 30#e110530


Contents:
"Decoration Day 2011"
"Civil wars - the worst of the worst"
"Decoration Day"


### World View -- Library of Congress opens the National Jukebox
"Library of Congress opens the National Jukebox"
"Serb nationalists rally in Belgrade for Ratko Mladic"
"Al-Qaeda (AQAP) militants capture south Yemen town of Zinjibar"
"Qatar and Algeria face off in Libya"
"ECB board member calls orderly Greek restructuring a 'fairy tale'"

Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Decoration Day, Civil War, Memorial Day,
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Rwanda,
Lebanon, Émile Geamil Lahoud


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Library of Congress, National Jukebox,
Jerome Kern, George M Cohan, Nora Bayes, Serbia
Ratko Mladic, Belgrade, AQAP, Yemen, Zinjibar, Ali Abdullah Saleh,
Algeria, Qatar, Libya, Greece, ECB

[vincecate]

200 masked Islamist militants, some of them from Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), launched an attack on the provincial capital of Zinjibar, pop. 18,000, at town on the southern cost of Yemen. The fighters were accused of pillaging the town, burning down buildings and launching violent reprisals that left corpses strewn across dusty streets. Telegraph

When 200 guys can pillage a town of 18,000 I would expect there is gun control in that town. But Wikepdia says Yemen is right behind the USA in terms of gun ownership (though with much uncertainty in estimate). I am puzzled. Does most of the population really support Al-Qaeda?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... _ownership

[OLD1953]

At a guess, most of the population was either in protected compounds or looting.