Archive for January, 2005
AP reports from Baghdad that air traffic control diverted both the Royal Jordanian flights to the Iraqi capital yesterday due to the airfield being under mortar fire. Which probably explains why (as pointed out to me) neither the BGIA nor the Airline Transport flights from Sharjah to Baghdad have left for two days. Neither have [...]
A Fistful of Euros have opened voting on their European Blog Awards at the link given. Why not consider voting for the Yorkshire Ranter for Best UK Blog, Best Political Blog, and why the hell not Best European Blog?
Famously, politics without patronage is like kissing your sister, so we now move to your chance [...]
A Fistful of Euros have opened voting on their European Blog Awards at the link given. Why not consider voting for the Yorkshire Ranter for Best UK Blog, Best Political Blog, and why the hell not Best European Blog?
Famously, politics without patronage is like kissing your sister, so we now move to your chance [...]
“whose links to the US government would be embarrassing if disclosed”. Apparently they may be found in a new covert-operations organisation being created in the Pentagon, focused on “emerging target countries such as Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia, Philippines and Georgia”. (Eh? And there was I thinking the new government in Georgia was a plot thought up [...]
Still no mention in the NOTW of their investigations editor Mahzer Mahmood’s arrest by the Czech police. What could possibly be the matter with the little dears? Perhaps I should write them a letter.
“whose links to the US government would be embarrassing if disclosed”. Apparently they may be found in a new covert-operations organisation being created in the Pentagon, focused on “emerging target countries such as Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia, Philippines and Georgia”. (Eh? And there was I thinking the new government in Georgia was a plot thought up [...]
Still no mention in the NOTW of their investigations editor Mahzer Mahmood’s arrest by the Czech police. What could possibly be the matter with the little dears? Perhaps I should write them a letter.
I’ve been meaning to raise this for a few days now. Basically, our old friend Mahzer Mahmood, the News of the World’s “Investigations Editor” and the man responsible for the red mercury plot with no red (or other) mercury and the plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham, has got himself in a spot of bother in [...]
So what the hell’s going on with this? It appears that $300 million in raw cash was sent to the Lebanon in a specially chartered aircraft, supposedly to buy heavy armour for the new Iraqi army in various places, including Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and the US. It also seems that the Iraqi cabinet [...]
If you check the Sharjah Airport arrival and departure lists, here, you’ll see a variety of interesting things. For a start, there’s the regular BGIA service to Baghdad as previously blogged. There are other dubious names like Airline Transport, Air West and TransAvia Export. But what is the explanation of the 3 or sometimes 4 [...]
