Plan B Poem by Pierre Rausch

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an
Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm civilians.
LONDON, United Kingdom - Britain's long-delayed inquest into the death by radioactive poisoning of Russian spy
Alexander Litvinenko could be abandoned after the coroner partly upheld a British government request to withhold
crucial evidence.
BAQUBA, Iraq - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left
Friday prayers, killing at least forty-three people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian
violence.
WASHINGTON, United States - The US-President and the turkish equivalent Erdogan request the immidiate retreat of
the Syrian ruler Assad - „We are both of us agree, that the Syrian Assad must be annhiliated.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Nineteen people were killed on Friday when a roadside bomb exploded near a commercial complex in
the Amiriya district in the west of Baghdad, police and medics said.
TBILISI/ST PETERSBURG, Russia - Large crowds of anti-gay protesters broke up homosexual rights rallies in Georgia
and Russia on Friday, underlining deep hostility in the former Soviet bloc.
TORONTO, Canada - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Friday denied allegations that he smoked crack cocaine.
SOCHI, Russia - France spelled out on Friday that it would oppose a peace conference for Syria if Bashar al-Assad's
regional ally Iran is invited, clouding the prospect for a U.S.-Russian initiative to end the two-year-old war.
WASHINGTON, United States - The US-President and the turkish equivalent Erdogan request the immidiate retreat of
the Syrian ruler Assad - „We are both of us agree, that the Syrian Assad must be annhiliated