Barry Lando

At his trial in Oslo, Norway, Anders Behring Breivik shocked onlookers yesterday when he announced he would "like to offer a large apology" to those innocent bystanders injured or killed in his bombing of an Oslo government building last July.

As for the other 69 people -- mainly...

As the trial of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik opens in Stockholm, we look on in horror at his arrogant posturing, his clenched fist salute, his regret that he didn't kill more that seventy-seven. But the fact is that this outrageous young Norwegian, is in no way the crazed psychotic...

I worked on 60 Minutes for more than 26 years, most of the time as a producer with Mike Wallace. Each report on the show has "produced by" written on the art work introducing it, but most viewers have no clue what "produced by" really entails.

Indeed, the great...

Even before Mohammed Merah -- a 23-year-old French punk and part-time garage mechanic turned Jihadist -- died in a hail of bullets in Toulouse, the horrific affair had already become the focus of France's current heated presidential campaign.

No one benefited more from the crisis than President Nicholas Sarkozy, for...

Mohammed Merah, a teenage loser, a petty thief and unemployed garage mechanic, who achieved instant worldwide notoriety as the latest symbol of Islamic jihad, went down in a hail of bullets early this morning.

He leaves a string of unanswered questions...

The horrific chain of 7 murders in Toulouse, France that have stunned this country, could have been lifted directly from a television thriller. In fact, this whole terrible affair has been a nightmare scenario that, for decades, has haunted authorities in France, Europe -- and the United States.

And...

The cold-blooded killing of a rabbi and three students at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France yesterday have left the French shocked -- and dismayed. What was driving the killer? No one knows. What is clear is that he went about his grisly work with the cold-blooded aplomb...

Thousands of largely unarmed people rise up against a brutal regime. In reaction, military commanders are dispatched to ruthlessly crush the revolt. Men, women, and children are cut down in cold blood, houses and apartments destroyed, the streets littered with body parts and piles of the dead. Desperate appeals are...

In the brief interview he gave ABC before the Super Bowl, President Obama declared "I've been very clear that we're going to do everything we can to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and creating an arms race, a nuclear arms race, in a volatile region."

Sounds...

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today

Oh, how I wish he'd go away
William Hughes Mearns, 1899

One of the most uncommented on ironies today is that Israel is threatening military action to prevent Iran...

Some bitter ironies in Afghanistan these days: U.S. and French soldiers gunned down by the very Afghan troops they work with. America and its NATO allies facing huge budget problems themselves, persist in squandering billions in Afghanistan to defeat Islamic radicals and create a propitious climate for growth...

In a perilous spiral of assassinations, threats and counter-threats, the leaders of Washington, Jerusalem and Tehran keep ratcheting the tension. What is most alarming about the situation, is that the principle players and their advisors are engaged in an incredibly dangerous three-way game of blind man's buff.

None of...

It's ironic that only now, eight and a half years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as the last American troops pull out, that we finally get a book dissecting the machinations of one of the men most responsible for that catastrophe: Ahmed Chalabi, the brilliant, treacherous, endlessly scheming Iraqi...

The downing of a sophisticated U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone over Iran is the latest ratcheting of tension between Washington and Tehran and Jerusalem. Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities have been crippled by sophisticated cyber attacks; key Iranian scientists and officials have been killed, including a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard...

The killing of 24 Pakistan troops by NATO forces is just the latest disastrous chapter in U.S.-Pakistan relations. As affairs go from bad to catastrophic, it's not just the Taliban who will benefit, but also China.

For several years now, the Pakistanis have found China a very...

On Friday, Washington added its voice to Egyptians demanding that the Egyptian military give way to civilian rule. It's instructive, however, to consider why the Egyptian brass are so reluctant.

Their resistance stems not just from a fear of an ultimate takeover by radical Muslims. There is also the fact...

In my previous blog, I cited the old chestnut: What's the difference between a laboratory rat and a human being? Answer: The lab rat finally ceases scurrying through a maze when he realizes there is no cheese at the end. Human beings, on the other hand, never stop...

Remember the old chestnut? What's the difference between a laboratory rat and a human being? The lab rat finally ceases scurrying through a maze when it realizes there is no cheese at the end. Human beings, on the other hand, never stop trying.

Confronted with the maze that is the...

A few days ago, before the terrifying bloodshed in Norway, I received an email from the U.S. denouncing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in France: "Will the world say nothing -- again -- as it did in Hitler's time?" The author cataloged a list of attacks against Jewish targets in...

After the allegations that top-level Pakistani officials have secretly aided Al Qaeda and the Taliban, sheltering Osama Bin Laden himself, now comes a startling new charge in the New York Times: "Pakistan's Military Plotted to Tilt U.S. Policy, FBI says."

But wait, America, before the predictable surge...