The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday June 9th, 2022
George W. Bush, Freudian Confessions and Foiled Assassinations by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Death, remarked Gore Vidal about Truman Capote’s passing, was a good career move. The novelist Saki also considered the good qualities of shuffling off the mortal coil. “Waldo,” he writes in “The Feast of Nemesis”, “is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.” But what of those instances when death is foiled, the Grim Reaper cheated?
Former US President George W. Bush has had the good fortune of facingsuch a foiling, though the claims remain fresh. On May 24, Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, an Iraqi national living in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested and charged with aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former US official and charges of attempting to bring foreign nationals to the US. The nationals in question are said to be affiliated with the Islamic State group.
Accordingto court documents, the FBI foiled the alleged plot through using informants. In November last year, Shihab is said to have told one of them that he “wished to kill former President Bush because they felt that he was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the entire country of Iraq.”
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The Invasion #poem by Abigail George
“Into the window of despair that is written all over your
face. What do you know of terror? Walk towards me is
all I asked. You could not love or rather could not love
me. This is what you would choose over me. The she.”
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Ghostin’ #037 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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