Somebody lobs a grenade at a bunch of German tourists looking at religious relics near some caves on the Afghan/Pakistan border. Hmmmm. Must've missed that excursion in my club med brochure. This on the same day a German intelligence service reports that Osama is alive and well and living somewhere around these border regions. But of course they have no connection with these tourists. I have a much easier time believing that these people were spies rather than total idiots. Honey, grab the kids. I've got a sudden urge to go take vacation photos of chemical facilities in Bhagdad. C'mon - it would be fun. If you get bored you can always take one of those buses to a shopping mall in Jerusalem.

We've seen these border towns before - years ago. They haven't changed. Nobody there is honest. Little trails across the porous border north of the great Khyber. Drugs and guns flow down these paths like ants. Everybody knows who everybody is - or at least they know enough not to ask. So yeah - if you just show up from another country and go poking around caves you're gonna' attract a bit of attention.

Didn't realize my CD player had so many lounge tunes. You know, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, etc. Of course they all landed next to each other yesterday and I'm goin' outta' my head over you....