Monthly Archive: November 2001

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Short Straws Drawn

The two guys were adrift in the Pacific for five months. Originally there were four of them. Did the other two die… or were they eaten?

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Suffer The Little Children

The Israeli military decided it will not prosecute soldiers in the death of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, even though its findings indicated troops had fired without justification from a tank-mounted machine gun near a...

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Taliban Beginning Guerilla War

The rugged and inhospitable Afghan terrain is perfect for small groups of guerrilla fighters to mount lightning strikes and then melt away � as the mujahideen of the 1980s showed when they stood up...

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Afghan Truckloads

Someone, either the Taliban or early NA arrivals or opportunists in Kabul, looted the moneylending square and made off with “truckloads” of cash. Sadly, I note from this article that a truckload of Afghani...

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Postmodern Bogeyman

Even scarier than looking into the eyes of Bin Laden or Cheney, there’s a Michael Jackson Special on TV. God he’s a horror. He’s always moved like some kind of sick joke, but his...

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From Joylessness to Anarchy

This is a great eye witness account of the transition of Kabul from the joyless regime of the Taliban to the lawless regime of the Northern Alliance. Rock and a hard place, it seems....

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Taking Out Al Jazeera

So the Pentagon finally got around to totalling the Al-Jazeera office in Kabul with a guided missile. That oughta stop their pesky broadcasts! Funny that Al-J got through the whole war “behind” enemy lines...

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Pork, Repugnant

More on the Senate’s stimulus bill, which some business leaders have called “repugnant”.