Links and Handshakes

Hey, I am not suggesting that Secretary Rumsfeld in any way aided Saddam Hussein in his support of al-Qaida, absolutely not -- but I do think the pool of actors in geopolitics is fairly small.

Other handshakes of interest include that between the Dalai Lama and Shoko Asahara, guru of Aum Shinrikyo, and that between Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti, who presented her with the Legion d'Honneur (she ia reported to have said of Duvalier and his wife, "loved their poor" and "their love was reciprocated".

As I say, it's a small world...