Author: mike

They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal�a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the Pentagon�s Office of Special Plans … By last fall, the operation rivalled both the C.I.A. and the...

So one guy holds a pipe bomb in his mouth as lights the fuse… Apparently his girlfriend, who was watching, claims he was “a risk taker”. Meanwhile, this other guy walks into the butcher...

The massacre in Falluja was symptomatic. The town was quiet for two weeks after Iraqi troops and local Ba’ath party leaders fled. The imams halted the looting and got much of the stolen property...

So that Iraqi Salam Pax blog is back. Meanwhile, the Spanish are running Umm Qasr, much to the regret of some of its inhabitants. It was meant to be different. The port town of...

I was amused to read that the founder of the pyramid scam known as Scientology, the ever-amusing L Ron Hubbard, visited “Heaven” several trillion years ago and definitively described what he saw: Heaven was...

So I read this account of US soldier Jessica Lynch’s stay in an Iraqi hospital illuminating. According to her doctors, the Iraqi troops had left days earlier. They attempted to deliver her in an...

So I note that trigger-happy Israeli troops fired on a fact-finding convoy that was escorting the parents of Tom Hurndall to the spot where their son was shot in the head while trying to...

So way back in 1992, Wolfowitz and others wrote this in one of their wet dream journals: NATO continues to provide the indispensable foundation for a stable security environment in Europe. Therefore, it is...

A Dunbar man was sentenced today to serve at least 15 years in prison for killing a housemate who had sex with his cat … Prosecutors said the men stabbed Mazujian in the eye...

So it seems like policing Iraq may prove troublesome, and expensive… From “IRAQ: FROM SUMER TO SUDAN”. London: St. Martins Press, 1994″ Churchill was in no doubt that gas could be profitably employed against...