Some would consider that news that contrary to what we were all brought up to believe mayonnaise protects against food spoilage the best of the weekend.
But there was other fantastic news.
From Iran
Ahmed Batebi, a leader of the Iranian student movement escaped from an Iranian jail after being imprisoned and tortured for nine years and made his way to the U.S. He was interviewed on the Voice of America.
I wish each and every Iranian could travel abroad, come to the U.S. or go to Europe, for just one week, and feel, smell, and breathe freedom, human dignity, and realize the value of their lives.
Gateway Pundit has lots more on Batebi, Iran's most famous dissident.
From Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki announced on Saturday, "We have defeated terrorism". Gateway Pundit again with lots more.
550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium were transported in 37 military flights from Iraq to Canada.
From Colombia
The joyful news that Ingrid Betancourt and three American hostages were released from a jungle prison where they were held by the revolutionary terrorist group called FARC in a spectacular, impeccable operation by the Colombian armed forces with advice, support and training from the Americans and the Israelis.
"I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years," she told Europe 1 radio. "I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable."
Asked whether she had been tortured, she said, "Yes, yes," and said her captors had fallen into "diabolical behavior," adding: "It was so monstrous, I think they themselves were disgusted."
She called her rescue "a miracle of the Virgin Mary" and said: "You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss." She had made herself a wooden rosary in the jungle, she said.
Thanking God on the tarmac. When was the last time you saw something like this?
"God, this is a miracle," Betancourt said. "Such a perfect operation is unprecedented."
Just how were the rebels fooled? Mary Anastasia O'Grady reports in the WSJ on FARC's 'Human Rights" Friends.
It may have taken years for army intelligence to infiltrate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and it may have been tough to convincingly impersonate rebels. But what seems to have been a walk in the park was getting the FARC to believe that an NGO was providing resources to help it in the dirty work of ferrying captives to a new location.
Many of the NGOs in Colombia are nothing but fronts for terrorists.
Left-wing NGOs have made undermining the Colombian government's credibility a priority for many years.....
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Since the late 1990s, the NGO practice of dragging the military into court on allegations of human rights violations has destroyed the careers of some of the country's finest officers, even though most of these men were found innocent after years of proceedings. "Judicial warfare" turned out to be especially effective because under legislation pushed by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, "credible" charges against officers put at risk U.S. military aid unless the accused was removed. The NGOs knew that they only had to point fingers to get rid of an effective leader and demoralize the ranks. Given this history, it's not surprising that the FARC thought a helicopter from an NGO was perfectly natural.
What's particularly disturbing is what appears in notes captured from FARC
Piedad says that Chávez has Uribe going crazy. He doesn't know what to do. That Nancy Pelosi helps and is ready to help in the swap [hostages in exchange for captured guerrillas]. That she has designated [U.S. Congressman Jim] McGovern for this.