“I’m just an ordinary middle-aged primary school teacher. I went out there to have an

“I’m just an ordinary middle-aged primary school teacher. I went out there to have an adventure, and got a bit more than I bargained for.”

Gillian Gibbons

The British teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad.

“I’m not worried about a backslide as much as I am (about) how we continue the momentum going forward. One of the clear concerns that we all have is that in the last two or three years there has been a continuing increase in the overall level of violence.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates

Speaking about increasing levels of violence in Afghanistan.