Thank me later

Europe's struggle to define itself in recent years has moved me to lend a hand.

SARDONIC sâr'dânik adj.

Lack of European experts has held up the excavation of mass graves in Iraq, according to an American human rights lawyer working on the investigation.

Greg Kehoe said the experts were not joining in because evidence might be used to sentence Saddam Hussein to death.

Europe: useless to the crust mantle core.

Mr Kehoe, who spent five years investigating mass graves in Bosnia for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said he wanted to have collected far more evidence by now, and cited the delay as one reason why the IST has yet to issue formal charges against Saddam and 11 other former regime leaders.

If you don't hear the shrill wailing of Amnesty International, they're probably hyperventilating.