Roguely Stated

By: David Bibo

[CNN, YNet] Reports indicate Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been killed.

[Financial Times, WaPo] Global terror attacks are up 25%, number of victims up 40% according to the State Department report on terrorism. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria listed as state sponsors of terrorism.

[CSMonitor, NYT, WaPo] British jury finds 5 men guilty in foiled London plot to detonate fertilizer bombs. Reports indicates MI5 had two of the 7/7 bombers in their sights prior to the attack.

[Haaretz, YNet, CSMonitor, NYT] Report decries Olmert’s “severe failures” in Israel’s botched war against Hezbollah. Calls for Olmert’s resignation mount over Winograd Commission findings.

[Haaretz] Hezbollah agrees with Winograd Commission findings - “Hezbollah was victorious…Israel is beatable.”

[WaPo] Green Zone shelled, no casualties reported.

[CSMonitor] US Supreme Court clears the way for Hamdan, others to go to trial under process defined in Military Commissions Act.

[Aljazeera, TimesOnline] Chavez has a busy May Day: Venezuela shuns IMF, World Bank. Orders US, Brit oil and gas firms to cede control of $30b in oil projects.