President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea has been impeached.
The country of 47 million is holding an election next month.
Police forcibly removed MP’s after three days of bitter debate.
The vote for impeachment was 193-2.
Prime Minister Goh Kun is now acting head of state.

The main charge against Mr Roh is that he violating his neutrality as president by publicly supporting the new Uri Party.

But analysts say the opposition’s real reason for acting is it fears losing seats to the Uri party in next month’s elections.

The MDP (Millenial Democratic Party) was joined by the largest opposition party, the Grand National Party (GNP), in the impeachment vote, which needed two thirds approval in the National Assembly, or 181 votes.

…The impeachment now goes to the Constitutional Court where six out of the court’s nine judges will have to back the measure for it to be approved.

The BBC has a good timeline of events in South Korea.

Spain
The people of Spain are mourning, as they head into an election this Sunday.
The death toll from Thursday’s bombing has gone up to 198, with 14 hundred people injured. Citizens from 10 countries were killed.
At first, the Spanish government blamed the Basque group ETA, who continue to press for a separate homeland. Formed in the 1960’s, the group is responsible for over 800 deaths in the past 30 years. Spanish police arrested ETA suspects last month near Madrid who were transporting 500kg of explosives.
An Arabic British newspaper says it received an e-mail from the Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri that claims responsibility for these bombings because Spain has supported the US. Spanish police announced a stolen van was found with detonators and Koranic verse inside, yesterday.
The same Islamic group, Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades had contacted the British newspaper and denied responsibility for the bombing in Iraq that killed 271 people on March 2nd. It has made claims of responsibility in the past that have been false.

In the past 10 or 20 years, how many of the world’s 192 countries have not been bombed, either in an act of war or by an extremist group? I don’t know that extremism has increased, as much as western media is reporting it more now.

British Columbia
This isn’t infrequent but it is sad to the extreme.
A 76 year old Naniamo man died in his home in 2001, and his body was only discovered a week ago.