The Middle East -The Gaza Bombshell

Vanity Fair: After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.

Naked Ambition

Some are calling it "The Day The Internet Died", whilst fans of freckled naked ginger girls posing with scarves call it "The Day Lindsay Lohan Pretended To Be Marilyn Monroe". Which isn’t nearly as catchy.