Ki-moon Phones Basher

Noisy neighbours can be a pain, can't they? UN chief Ban Ki-moon phoned chinless wonder Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - known to his chums as "Basher" - to complain about the shelling and was told military operations against protesters have stopped (title link). We'll take that with a pinch of salt. Still, Basher has killed only 2,000 of his people so far. "El Diego", the recently captured enforcer of a Mexican drug cartel admits to ordering the executions of 1,500 people in a three-year reign of terror (CLICK). And he's just one cartel enforcer! So, Syria is safer than Mexico for your holidays.