Category: Geopolitics

The Thorn Papers

They blew it with the mobile phone monitoring of Osama, they outed Plame, and now they’ve burned a turned al Qaeda mole (double agent) for short-term political damage control: Read between the lines, and CNN is suggesting that the outing of Khan has led to greater caution in al-Qaeda and similar groups about using electronic…

This op-ed chart from the NY Times compares how the money spent getting Saddam out of power could have been put to other uses in the war on people who hate our freedom. When someone asks you if it was worth it getting Saddam out, ask them “compared to what?”

Al-Qaida detainee recants claims, The New York Times 7/31/04 A senior leader of al-Qaida was the main source for intelligence…that Iraq had provided training in chemical and biological weapons to members of the organization…. Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a member of Osama bin Laden’s inner circle, recanted the claims sometime last year, …. about links between…

Boing Boing: Evidence for Hersh’s claims of child sexual abuse at Abu Ghraib? This story just gets more and more nauseating. What the fuck were these people thinking?

This morning I heard a report on TV – Fox I think, but it could have been CNN, about the mounting death toll in Iraq. The hawk guest quickly noted that Saddam killed an estimated 35 people per day from the time he took control of Iraq. 35 per day! That’s a staggering number. And…