IHT: Europe in for a letdown if it's counting on Kerry. Update: Steven Den Beste comments.

Chernobyl, two decades later.

European voting rights in US elections - Hans Blix joins the wackoes: "I think maybe we foreigners should have the right to vote in your next election, since we are so dependent on you."

I'm not sure it matters much, but the Yassin assasination was apparently legal under the version of the Geneva Conventions signed by Israel.

Jose Maria Aznar defends himself against accusations of coverup.

The Norwegian Defense Research Establishment has more on the potential al-Qaeda strategy document that proposed an attack on Spain before the election. They believe it is "likely that the perpetrators of the attacks knew this document in some way or other".

Leif Knutsen has a lengthy reply to my wtf-is-going-on post, and explains why the European identity makes it so hard to admit the danger and evil of Islamic terrorism.

As Danes turn to private investigators to buy justice, the corrupt American legal system so accurately described by Raymond Chandler is just a step away. Huh?

Anti-Israeli protest in Stockholm turns violent - police attacked, Israeli tourist office vandalised by houndreds of masked thugs with kaffiyas.

The New York Times writes about the inadequacy of European anti-terror measures: Little coordination between countries, and low priority on Islamic terrorism. (Via document.no.)

Trevor Stanley has made a useful page with statistics and maps over which countries supported the liberation of Iraq, when, and how. Unfortunately the critics are right, it was a unilateralist war - France didn't support it, as Trevor's map clearly reveals.

This is pretty cool. Bought a Palm T3, beautiful color screen, about as fast as my last PC. Add a foldable keyboard and an internet connection over bluetooth through my PC, and it's .. cool. Possibly useful. Bought the keyboard for my last PDA, but the screen was bad for writing. This one is great, and it all weighs close to nothing.

Those of my readers too lazy to learn Norwegian miss out on some great blogs. Luckily, the writers behind one of them, Tenk Selv, has started their own English blogs as well: Leif Knutsen and Lars Ruben Hirsch.

Runner-up to bizarre moment of the week: Nora Ingdal of the Norwegian Association of NGOs for Palestine warning, in a debate yesterday, about pro-Israeli media bias and the power of pro-Israeli pressure groups - in Norway. Turns out these fiendish Zionists have media watch websites and write correction letters to newspapers. It's like the Nazi's all over again!

This is bizarre: Johan Galtung, a Norwegian "peace professor" who's fairly respected among those who don't fall over laughing the moment you say "peace professor", has gone on TV to insult the nation of Australia: He believes that Australian pedophiles were to blame for the Bali terrorist attack, and that Osama bin Laden is more of an intellectual than John Howard is. (Via document.no). Tim - does this mean the Norwegian-Australian war is back on?

VG discovers that John Kerry is an evil pro-Israeli American too. Now who are we Norwegians going to vote for? Oh that's right, we can't. Sure seems otherwise from some of the coverage, though.

Cinderella Bloggerfeller returns as February 30, promising to be more obscure and less political - then proves it with this post on the history of dog-rule in Scandinavia. Also runs a blog dedicated to Turkmenistan.