Palaver

Can Abdullah Naker, the commander of Tripoli’s Revolutionist Council get himself a life. He is one militia leader who seems to have missed the point in the Libyan revolution. He actually threatened to close the Egyptian embassy and shut the border if Egypt’s rulers fail to gag a state TV station that has broadcast footage of Muammar Gaddafi’s old speeches. Mr Naker, this is just the kind of openness and tolerance for other people’s views that you took up arms for. Inclusion. Not exclusion!

What motivates Iran’s braggadocchio? Just days after reassuring the West that the Strait of Hormuz will remain open, and refusing to return a downed US spy drone, they go and announce a nuclear fuel breakthrough and brag about test-firing a new radar-evading medium-range missile. As it is, all the sabre rattling has been about Iran’s nuclear programme. Western nations are already mulling sanctions on Iran’s oil exports and wish to shut down the programme. How about Iran going about its business in silence, just like North Korea? There are just too many idle US soldiers who just left I-Raq.