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An IS suspect in a SpongeBob T-shirt nabbed recently.  HARESH SAYS By HARESH DEOL ENGLISH actor, filmmaker and director Peter Ustinov once said: “Terrorism is the war of the poor against the rich, and war is the terrorism of the rich against the poor.” Such has been the misconception of the men, women and even children who join a particular group, these days in the name of religion, to fulfill a certain agenda. Experts have long dispelled the notion that acts of terror are carried out by the poor and uneducated. History has shown it is the educated and affluent who lead such organisations and brainwash the minds of others through propaganda. It has nothing to do with the poor or economically challenged. It is not even about class or inequality. Osama bin Laden was an engineer from a wealthy Saudi family. Another Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was a trained surgeon. The lead hijacker of the 9/11 attacks in US, Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta, was an engineer ...

Commonwealth Games: Tenpin Bowling - Malays strike out for first gold  That was an article from UK's The Independent published in 1998. Former Mailsport editor Tony Mariadass came across the said article and showed it to me at his office recently. We shook our heads in disbelief. Paragraph six read; But if the experience was faintly bemusing for Prince Edward, for the Malaysians it was one of almost unalloyed joy as their doubles' pairing of Kenny Ang and Ben Heng earned the home country their first gold medal of these Games. Paragraph nine had this; Prince Edward was not the only guest of honour - the Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, watched Ang and Heng respond to the incessant chanting of "Malaya Boleh!" - "Malaya you can!" - to maintain a comfortable margin of victory over Bermuda and Australia. While paragraph 12 said; The Americanism on view went a little further. Every bowlers' effort of any merit...