The Israeli government appears so eager to facilitate the Palestinians' election of a replacement for Arafat that they're going to allow international election observers into Occupied Palestine. The IDF, however, will not withdraw, so I suppose the observers will be...
For anyone interested in the lawsuit threatened by MEMRI against Professor Juan Cole (Repressive MEMRI on AWC frontpage), there's both a well-written comprehensive defense and a set of links to other blogs supporting Cole at Abu Aardvark's place. In short, if you do...
After the sham "elections"in occupied Kosovo were finally certified by the Imperial viceroy, Albanians announced their new "government" will be led by two parties: Ibrahim Rugova's LDK, and Ramush Haradinaj's AAK. This means Hashim Taqi, the former supremo of the...
Regarding my post on Michael Ledeen, James Knechtmann of General Staff Library writes:This story about Tandey and Hitler is contrived propaganda nonsense from World War II. The source is an article in the Coventry Sunday Graphic from December 1940 (see...
From Marines Hampered by Security Fears in Falluja: Standing over a crater six meters (20 ft) across and six meters deep in a street created by what he said was a 2,000-pound bomb during the offensive, Staff Sargeant Jonathan Knarth, 29, of Florida, looked at down the...
How else am I to read this?Consider the story of Henry Tandey, a British infantryman in the Duke of Wellington Regiment in the First World War. On September 28, 1918, Tandey participated in an attack against enemy trenches near the small French town of Marcoing. The...
Kevin Sites speaks out: Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1 To Devil Dogs of the 3.1: Since the shooting in the Mosque, I've been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well. As...
"Israel Hit by Worst Locust Plague Since 1950s" Israeli agriculture officials sent crop dusters into the air to spray against the locusts that swept in from North Africa in the first such invasion since 1959. Crop dusters? Israel can do better than that. Here's my...
"We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency. We've taken away this safe haven," Lt. Gen. John Sattler told reporters at the Pentagon in a video teleconference from Fallujah. GUNMEN ambushed a convoy of Iraqi National Guards in...
Yesterday the death toll for GIs in Iraq hit 100 for the month of November (1221 total since the war began). With only two-thirds of the month over, Americans in Iraq are on track to exceed the previous high of 135 deaths in April of this year. This is an average of 5...
