December 31, 2006

2006: A Look Back

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It is New Year's Eve!!! It is also Sunday, so there is very little to be done. I thought I would just recount some of the events of 2006.

January: Russia cuts natural gas supply to Ukraine and Hammas wins the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.

February: U.S Vice-President Dick Cheney shoots his friend in the face and the Al Askari Mosque, a Shiite holy place is bombed in Samarra, Iraq, which causes riots and counter-attacks.

March: Slobodon Milosevic is found dead in his cell at the UN War Crimes Tribunal detention center and ETA announce a permanent ceasefire in it's campaign for Basque independence from Spain.

April: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinijad announces that Iran has produced enriched uranium and anti-war demostators march down Broadway in New York City to mark the 3rd year of the war in Iraq.

May: Bolivia nationalizes it's gas fields and a new coalition government is formed in Israel.

June: Abu Masab Al Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda leader, is killed in Iraq and Israel launches operations against militants in Gaza.

July: North Korea test fires missiles, including long range Taepodong 2 and Israel-Lebanon conflict begins with Israel invading Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnappings of Israeli soldiers.

August: Police in London arrest 21 poeple in terrorist plots against Britain and the United States and a UN ceasefire is accepted in Israeli-Lebanon conflict.

September: Pope Benedict XVI sparks worldwide protest after making remarks critical of Islam and Republican congressman Mark Foley resigns after it was revealed that he sent sexually explicit e-mails to teenage congressional pages.

October: North Korea announces it has successfully tested a nuclear meapon and the population of the United States reaches 300,000,000.

November: Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death for crimes against humanity and Iran successfully tests new missiles.

December: Saddam Hussein is hanged and ETA sets off car bomb in Madrid bringing it's permanent ceasefire to an end.

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