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Wednesday, March 17, 2004



When you bury a person, the pain is that it is the last moment when you have that person next to you and when the ceremony ends you hand that person over to God. You don't lose them, but you stop having them at your side through everything

These guys want to kill us anyway
In his penultimate public appearance, the late Osama bin Laden, broadcasting from his cave in the early hours of the Afghan campaign, listed among his principal grievances "the tragedy of Andalusia" – that is, the end of Muslim rule in Spain in 1492.
· Madrid
· A SAD POSTCARD FROM SPAIN
It is true we are all Madrileños,
we are all New Yorkers,
it is true we live in al-Najaf and Baghdad,
it is true we bleed the same red, the same black.
Federico García Lorca Translation