BRIEFLY

PALESTINIAN TERRITORY   The head of Palestinian intelligence is warning they are on the brink of a civil war. 

NORTH KOREA  Kim's message: War is coming to U.S. Soil, according to Kim Myong Chol ("Unoffocial spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea.)   Scarey stuff.  He predicts He predicts after Korean tests that other anti-American countries will develop weapons.   He's right.

KOFI ANNAN NOT A HIT   Asia Times: Kofi Annan's tenure at U.N. was unqualified disaster.  Food for Oil, managed by Annan's UN Secretariat "possibly the greatest scam in history."  Even South Africans don't think highly of him.

SOUTH AFRICA    South African diplomat to London and his hellish children recalled to Pretoria.

MEXICO - "decapitation wave" as 15 murdered and decapitated in last few weeks.   (For daily news of the drug cartel war against the police, San Diego Union-Tribune is the best source.)

DENMARK   Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen addressed parliament saying today "a global battle of values" is being fought. 

'This isn't a battle of principles between cultures or religions, it's a battle between sensible enlightenment and fundamentalist obscurity, between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and tyranny.

Do not look for the story in New York Times/Washington Post/ABC News anytime soon.