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To all Americans of good will out there, a Happy Fourth of July! And once again, thanks for the magnificent job done thus far in providing g...

A.) THEN. Almost ten years ago, on August 9, 1996 , Marc Dutroux , an unemployed Wallonian electrician, abducted 14-year old Laetitia Delhez...

Last Saturday, June 24 , a 54-year old passenger on a commuter bus in Antwerp, Guido Demoor , was beaten to death on a bus by six Moroccans ...

Quick country profile: Slovakia is a mountainous, landlocked Central European country with a surface of 48,845 sq kloms (think twice the si...

Please, pray for these men and their families. To the left, Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker , 25, of Madras, Oregon, to the right Pfc. Kristian Mencha...

We’re almost halfway 2006 now, and who’s nuts enough to read MFBB’s EU posts knows what that means: time for another EU summit!!! Yes indeed...

Guess the fact that Ayaan Hirsi Ali , the Dutch MP of Somali origin, was as good as expelled from the Netherlands two weeks ago did not go ...

Back in the ole days when MFBB made a real huge sport of not successfully chasing gorgeous broads, he sometimes found solace in movies. Alth...

The Beast is dead. Le Monde on the other hand is sorry: "La mort d'Al-Zarkaoui, une "bonne nouvelle" qui ne résout rien....

This tribute is for Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas , from El Paso , Texas, who was 20 at the time of his death in Haditha , Iraq. He was ass...

On June 6, 1944 , 156,000 American, British and Canadian troops landed on the shores of Normandy in an attempt to wrest control of Western ...

Last weekend, June 3 , 4 and 5 , the French Trotskyists held their yearly family gathering in Presles , north of Paris, and the fantastic...

Fellow blogger Luc Van Braekel lives in Waregem , where there is a "small" American cemetery. It's called "Flanders Field...

GIVE US WEAPONS. From the desk of Paul Belien (Friday, 21 April 2006) On the videofootage you see them standing like predators alongside the...

Brussels Central Station is, as its name implies, a busy node in Belgium’s railway network. On working days, some 140,000 plus government em...