On the Brink
May 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. spy satellites have detected what may be preparations for North Korea’s first test of a nuclear weapon, although analysts believe it could be a calculated ruse on Pyongyang’s part, a U.S. defense official said Friday. The satellite images show North Korea has dug and refilled a significant hole at a suspected [...]
Letter to Zarqawi Captured
May 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The American military has seized a letter intended for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi which chastises the terrorist leader of the Iraqi “insurgency” for huge failures and plummeting morale of the jihadis. The letter, written by another al-Qaeda figure, starts by greeting Zarqawi respectfully but quickly dresses him down for poor performance: The letter — which never [...]
California’s Third Rail
April 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged federal officials to beef up enforcement and secure the state’s borders against illegal immigrants, saying Tuesday they must clean up a “lax situation” instead of “trying to run the other way.” “Close the borders. Close the borders in California, and all across Mexico and the United States,” Schwarzenegger told hundreds of [...]
Hezbollahland
April 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Exactly 30 years ago Palestinians attacked a church. Radical Christians retaliated with a massacre on a bus. And so began Lebanon’s plunge into the hell of civil war that pulverized the city center to powder and carved the rest of Beirut (and the rest of the country) into besieged ethnic cantons ruled by militias. The [...]
Another Domino Goes Down
February 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
BEIRUT, Lebanon Feb 28, 2005 — With shouts of “Syria out!” 25,000 protesters massed outside Parliament in a dramatic display of defiance Monday that forced out Lebanon’s pro-Syrian prime minister and Cabinet. Minutes after Prime Minister Omar Karami announced he was stepping down, jubilant demonstrators shouting, waving flags and handing red roses to soldiers demanded [...]
Hell Freezes Over
February 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Early July 2004, a week or so after the CPA left Baghdad and Iyad Allawi’s interim Iraqi government took over: I was sitting in the Corps’ Joint Operations Center(JOC) in Al Faw Palace, Baghdad, drinking a big cup of tea. The JOC had a huge screen covering an entire wall, like a movie theater screen [...]
No Nukes?
February 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he was convinced Iran was not trying to build a nuclear weapon and that Russia would press ahead with nuclear cooperation with the Islamic Republic. Putin’s defense of Iran, where Russia is building a nuclear power plant, comes in the face of U.S. concerns that Tehran [...]
Intelligence Chief
February 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
President Bush on Thursday named John Negroponte, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and currently the administration’s top representative in Iraq, to be America’s first national intelligence director. Announcing the move, Bush said that Negroponte understands global intelligence needs because he’s had a long career in the foreign service. Bush said he wants [...]
Wrath of Da Goddess
February 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Why is it that we tend to fall back into our political comfort zones instead of addressing the issue? Go back and reread my letter to Carl. What was the point of the whole thing? The letter was a response to Carl’s comment on a post I’d written regarding the elation of the Iraqi people [...]
Brutality in Beijing
January 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Witnesses say China has detained dozens of people, some of whom have been severely beaten, for trying to mark the death of former leader Zhao Ziyang. The allegations came as the Government intensified security to prevent mourners attending Saturday’s funeral in Beijing for Mr Zhao, the former Communist Party secretary general purged for opposing the [...]
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