What terrorist ties? Oh… Those: A wanted Palestinian fugitive, Abu Abbas, has been detained by US forces in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. He led the Palestinian Liberation Front, which hijacked a US cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, in 1985. During the hijack, an elderly American passenger was killed. Abu Abbas had been mentioned by US …
Archives for April 2003
Laurence Simon
Laurence Simon’s excellent Amish Tech Support has moved to http://amish.blogmosis.com. Also, this may be the best headline I have seen in a while: Iraq has fallen, now Fisk moves to defend Syria I will write more when I get over this awful bronchitis/strep concoction I have managed to brew up.
Great Week- But Don’t Forget
It has been a great week for results in the war, and I am going to take a day off. Remember, though, that despite all the advances this week, we still have men and women in harms way, and remember to keep our MIA’s and POW’s in your thoughts. U.S. Army Spc. Shoshawna Johnson, one …
Iraqi Information Minister
We’ve all thought this, now someone has finally photoshopped it- The Iraqi Information Minister (Image via the German Dutch weblog the Black Forest, which I found through Coolio’s) I have been informed this is a Dutch weblog- The Black Forest kinda convinced me it would be German. Wrong again.
A Fool and Her Microphone
Nancy Pelosi stands by her principled position against the war: “I have absolutely no regret about my vote on this war,” she told reporters at her weekly briefing yesterday, saying the same questions still remain: “The cost in human lives. The cost to our budget, probably $100 billion. We could have probably brought down that …
International Answer Protest
International Answer is planning new anti-war protests this weekend. Here is a sample poster that will be displayed: (Image via Michael Heraghty)
New Mark Steyn
Here: Well, this whole quagmire seems to be getting worse, eh? I see the Yanks have now been reduced to staging fake scenes of supposed jubilation on the alleged streets of what the Pentagon assures us is Baghdad. If you pause the video, you’ll see the guy on the right jumping up and down thwacking …