Archive for June, 2004
Last night’s TV. What a great subject for a blog post.
Newsnight last night was taken up by the BBC’s favourite post-Hutton pastime - broadcasting earnest discussions of its own failings. On the panel was Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips, who had a number of curious things to say about Andrew Gilligan, reporting and her [...]
As heavily reported, the Iranians have seized three speed boats belonging to the Royal Naval party in southern Iraq after they allegedly crossed the border between Iran and Iraq. The people involved are engaged in setting up an Iraqi river police for the area (chalk up another bunch of gunmen to us! I hope I’m [...]
Last night’s TV. What a great subject for a blog post.
Newsnight last night was taken up by the BBC’s favourite post-Hutton pastime - broadcasting earnest discussions of its own failings. On the panel was Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips, who had a number of curious things to say about Andrew Gilligan, reporting and her [...]
As heavily reported, the Iranians have seized three speed boats belonging to the Royal Naval party in southern Iraq after they allegedly crossed the border between Iran and Iraq. The people involved are engaged in setting up an Iraqi river police for the area (chalk up another bunch of gunmen to us! I hope I’m [...]
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Private craft makes space history
They did it! Burt Rutan’s outfit went to space!
Best news all year!
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Private craft makes space history
They did it! Burt Rutan’s outfit went to space!
Best news all year!
So - having besieged Fallujah for weeks without success, you hand it over to a new and rather vague “Fallujah Brigade” in the hope that they will be less provocative (with the subtext that it’s a Kosovo Protection Corps-style way of incorporating the gunmen into something quasi-legitimate). Then, without apparently considering any further, you call [...]
The mighty Talking Points Memo has an interview with Anonymous, the spook author of Imperial Hubris, the book in which he bashes Bush’s counterterrorist policy comprehensively. TPM and Anon discuss Saudi Arabia (or next month’s outrage, as I’ve decided to call it) and establish that al-Qa’ida apparently operates on the principles laid down in Withnail [...]
Just not for our side.
The chart shows numbers of “significant activities” by insurgents. Blue line is the daily total, red is the moving average. From Global Security
In the week that Kabul’s first gastropub opened for business, Phil Carter’s Intel Dump has a great post on the bar scene that has developed inside the walls of the Baghdad Green Zone. Apparently, the Zone’s hottest ticket is the CIA disco. Complete with mirrorball and (sprung I hope) dance floor.
“The plushest tavern is the [...]
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