Monthly Archive: May 2003

So like many people I was puzzled by the news a few weeks ago that the Pentagon had been careful to bypass the armed, mi litant Mujah edeen e Khalq mili tia faction in...

And they said it couldn’t be done! Earlier here.

I noticed this from a November 1999 BBC Interview with then-Governor Bush: REPORTER: Would Saddam Hussein outlive a second President Bush? GOVERNOR BUSH: [Laughs] Very good question. Uh, I think the interesting thing —...

So the Pentagon has finally located some incontrovertible evidence of WMDs… in Maryland. Apparently the Iraqis aren’t the only ones who can’t explain where their WMDs went, or produce records to locate them… The...

No weapons. The decision to highlight weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for going to war in Iraq was taken for “bureaucratic reasons”, according to the US deputy defence secretary … Picking...

They’ve been in charge for a while by now… The Financial Times suggests that “more extreme Republicans” actually want a fiscal train wreck: “Proposing to slash federal spending, particularly on social programs, is a...

This is an eye-opening account of what Afghanistan is like today. The nominal US-installed ruler, Karzai, is a prisoner within Kabul, kept alive by massive US military protection, and doesn’t dare leave the capital....

A former student at an all-girls Catholic high school claims she was sexually assaulted more than a decade ago by a nun who taught morals and religion and was in charge of recruiting young...

I read this report that the US bribed one of Iraq’s senior generals to hand over Baghdad with minimal resistance, then faked his death while they put him into some kind of witness protection...

The longer that the interzone-formerly-imagined-as-Iraq exists in a state of postwar chaos and rapine, the more likely it is that simple Darwinism will throw up a generation of strong men who will “restore order”,...