Archive for February, 2006
Interesting blog on piracy and such, here. One to go next to Carlos in my “You’re further right than Genghis Khan, but we can agree on at least one thing” file. BTW, anyone who reads down to the systempunkt-rockin’ map of Nigerian oil infrastructure can certainly pride themselves on having breached the Terrorism Act by [...]
Is it me or are fake policemen everywhere? (now there’s a paranoid lede if ever there was one)
Yesterday kicked off when 10 men dressed and equipped as the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior Commandos (in that wonderfully Soviet way of speaking they have) paid a call on a mosque where two 9th century Shia imams [...]
…It’s a tired old blogosphere cliche to link to Fafblog, but this is genius. It’s too good to quote piecemeal.
On Newsnight, after the disaster of the shrine bombing, Nick Houghton seems to get it. He said that the enemy wants as much chaos as possible so as to create their Caliphate. That might sound like standard military-press boilerplate, but is it? The caliphate is a virtual state, the nation of the mind. The chaos [...]
Right, so those guerrillas in Nigeria’s oilfields have finally chucked in all that nonviolent stuff of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s and are blowing up oil pipelines, kidnapping engineers and shooting cops. They’ve even set a numerical target so as to let the markets price it in and do their work for them - they want to take [...]
The Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor has a very interesting indeed report on Sierra Leone, diamonds, the curious connections with political Islam of various more or less violent kinds, and our favourite subject - mystery jets!
Regular readers may recall that this blog has gone into the bizarre case of why Iraqi Airways’s planes are registered in [...]
The Arizona Daily Sun has a newsful report on Sonia Falcone’s arrest, including this:
In the courtroom Friday, Falcone swiveled in her chair, the restraints on her designer jeans occasionally chinking just above her high heels.
Donning my journalistic blue cellophane shade, munching a cheese sandwich washed down with scotch and smoking three cigarettes, I call [...]
Pierre Falcone’s wife, dubious cosmetics entrepreneur, wannabe Republican powerbroker and somehow unconvincing spokeswoman for the Latino poor Sonia Falcone has been arrested on charges of using a forged document to gain resident status in the US. Colour me schadenfreude.
Shirley Williams, on Ming Campbell’s ticket: Balancing liberty and security..in these dangerous times..only a temporary measure…really all for your own good…
Slip the shackles from your eyes. Real security has nothing to do with a trade-off with liberty. There’s a reason why so many key threats to our security come from or pass through polities Tony [...]
Spam received claiming to be the Bank of America, trying to collect passwords. Now, here’s how you do it: select “view source” in MS Exchange or Outlook, view original in Gmail. This will show the HTML code of the email. Look for the link you’re meant to click to provide your password: it will look [...]
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