Usually I’m an optimistic person.

There are, however, days when I find it difficult to stay in good mood;

WP reports from Iraq: Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday. (also reported by NYT)

WP from Colombia: [The] attorney general said Tuesday that his office would try to rewrite the extradition of eight executives from Chiquita Brands International, the Ohio banana company that last week admitted to paying $1.7 million to right-wing death squads that have killed thousands in this country’s long civil war.

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