Protected: Weeks 13 and 14: The Middle East & International Terrorism
Week 13 In 1983, a pro-Iranian group calling itself the Islamic Jihad Organization (later known as Hezbollah) detonated a suicide bomb next to the U.S. embassy, killing 63 people. It wasn’t the first shot fired in the war with Islamic jihadists, but it was a harbinger of the broader war to come.
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An Eskimo Stabbed Me, and Other Benefits of Quarantine
Okay, the stabbing was metaphorical but it was performed by an Eskimo — a Yup’ik Eskimo to be precise, and I deserved it. His name is David, but we all call him DJ. He is a friend, and he has been my ally on this desperate battlefield we call life for many
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