My Digital Thoughts : Shashi's Diary

Today was a very eventful day- It began with a visit to the White House and ended with a realization that your world is controlled sometimes by forces that you have no control over. I am a regular listener to WTOP ( other than when I am listening to Jack Diamond on Mix 107.3) and hear the every day headlines like " Fairfax woman wakes to man's hands around her neck " or  Dog shot after attacking school children on bus , and usually being human beings we always assume it is happening to someone else. We had some friends over and were our usual selves joking chatting and generally making a lot of noise and then we decided to move from the Family room to the dining room. We heard the door sensor beep and that was unusual as everyone was right there. Looking into the family room we saw the deck door was slightly open and a stranger was standing there.He said his wife was beating him and he was running away from her. My first reaction was how did he get to the de...

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In an article on NDTV on the Osama Bin Laden's death there are two things that headlined my attention Osama was just 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy Bin Laden's killing at a compound near a city that is home to the military academy, a brigade and thousands of army personnel could prove to be an embarrassment to the Pakistani military Having grown up in India I am quite surprised that he could live in a house in what seems to be a close knit community ( I am going by pictures on TV) and Google maps  http://goo.gl/maps/XhY7  without detection for so long. Granted we do not know yet how long he was living here, granted press reports say the house was built  not more than 6 years ago. Maybe he had several of such houses built ( reportedly costing 1M). This did not look like a mansion and the surrounding houses seem typically for any South Asian town. In NDTV the Pakistan Ambassador to the UK Wajid Shamshul Hasan said that he thinks that the P...