Teddy who?

Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who was arrested and imprisoned in Sudan for letting her children name a teddy bear Muhammad, touched back down in the UK today. This means we won't have to bomb a paracetamol factory down there though I'm sure Gordon Brown welcomed her return with gritted teeth. After all, in 1998, when Bill Clinton was finding it tough over the Lewinsky scandal, he lobbed a few cruise missiles at Iraq and Sudan, the latter destroying what was called a chemical lab. Well, it was of sorts, to make headache relief! It was suspicious that the attack took place at night so no-one would be present (and thus no-one hurt), when if you wanted to take out a dodgy chemical lab surely you would want to take out the scientists associated with it too, to set back the nefarious research. Brown is having problems aplenty so he must have dearly wished to explode aspirin in Sudan, thereby diverting attention and now that excuse has been taken away from him. As to the silliness of the charges with the seriousness of the consequences, I wonder what Teddy Roosevelt would have made of it all.