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Invading Spain Plainly Not Germane
So Spain has arrested several suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. But EU law forbids the extradition of suspects to barbaric countries where a fair trial or freedom from threat of execution cannot be guaranteed. Unfortunately, this describes the state of justice in the US. So Spanish authorities say there can be no extradition without assurances.
Luckily though, Spain is safe from threat of US bombings or invasion. Apparently, only towelhead countries need be worried about US bombings. This goes right back to something I thought about at the end of September. If Bin Laden was really clever, he’d have gone straight to Sweden and demanded asylum from the US. The legal battles would have taken months, if not years.
Holidays in the Sun
Remind me not to holiday in Benin.
Or Singapore… I thought this country was supposed to be clean? It makes sense, though, that in such an autocratic, anal-compulsive society, robbers would use shit as their weapon of choice. This is a country that canes people for minor misdemeanours, I’m surprised it’s not the Asian capital for BDSM.
Spider Baby!
Dougal was right! There is a Spider Baby!
Sat Phone Lust
Another demonstration of why the media is running away from the Northern Alliance territories in Afghanistan. This guy was almost shot dead for his satellite phone.
Russia Retakes Afghanistan
This Los Angeles Times article says that Russia has been supporting the Northern Alliance forces with weapons and armour since its original invasion of Afghanistan more than 20 years ago. And it was Russia that prompted them to push south to take Kabul. Now in the “peace” talks in Germany, Russia is supporting the North Alliance’s claim as the rightful government of Afghanistan, thus cleverly retaking most of Afghanistan more than a decade after they withdrew.
It’s all about oil. Russia has lots and world demand is due to double within a generation because of Chinese and Indian development. This leaves them sitting pretty, due mainly to the machinations of Viktor Kvashnin, Chief of the Russian General Staff. It was he who directed the Northern Alliance into Kabul, against the direct wishes of Bush and Blair.
This is not your average conspiracy thoery, it’s the opinion of Eric Margolis, whose book War at the Top of the World : The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet is like a complete guide to the complex geopolitics of this bizarrely complex region.
Cruise Dodging
Bin Laden barely dodged a cruise missile strike, leaving early and without warning before the guided missiles arrived. Divine intervention or good intelligence information?
Sex Games
This guy strangled his girlfriend during sex (“accidentally”), while this one poisoned his girlfriend with ant killer attempting to induce a miscarriage (Do not drink the Kool Aid).
Arcadia Redux
I always thought that the X-Files Arcadia epsiode, about a planned community where residents were killed and eaten by a monster for infringing the community code, might be just a little far-fetched. Then I read this story.
Kabul Free For All
What’s the situation like in Kabul now that the evil-but-law-enforcing Taliban social experiment has been abandoned by the populace following US pressure and Northern Alliance invasion?
Eleven-year-old boys toting rocket launchers bigger than themselves milled about the central square, playing soccer, flying kites and shooting their AKs into the air … Half of the male population — the heavily armed half — is cruising the streets looking for people to rob. And the drug trade has made a remarkable overnight comeback; pure opium paste is selling briskly
The confused situation, with several dozen Northern Alliance gangs now feuding for supremacy and rogue Taliban-aligned groups operating low-intensity guerilla warfare, has led the BBC and Reuters to quit Afghanistan after a number of journalists have been murdered by anonymous assassins.
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