Bruce R who runs, as Henley says, "...your go-to site for questions about SAM strike authenticity," on Sunday's RAF Herc crash:I can see only two realistic possibilities for why this plane crashed: mechanical failure unrelated to terrorists (something big, too, like a...
Tom Knapp quotes Tim Cavanaugh:The real surprise is how even the war skeptics seem to have no counternarrative to put up against the story of a Miracle In Mosul. We don't need a counternarrative. We've been right all along. We just get caught flat-footed everytime the...
An Islamic Web site shows a picture of what appears to be an American soldier in desert fatigues, with his hands tied and a gun pointed at his head. A statement on the site threatens to behead the soldier in 72 hours unless Americans release Iraqi prisoners. The...
UPI reports:Military experts have said the plane was too high -- at 15,000 feet -- to be reached by [an anti-tank missile], the Sun newspaper reported Tuesday. A senior ministry source told the paper: "It is clear the C-130 exploded in midair and shattered into...
Campaign workers pasting up posters in Saigon for the September 1967 election, four months before the Tet Offensive. SUCCESS! United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong...
No warbots will be quoting Raed today. He is mad. By Raed's calculation, turnout was less than 50%, at best, counting expats. Vote For Food In other news.... Get ready for The Morning After:Mosul - The local electoral commission representative only began his work in...
The London Telegraph speculates:An RAF C130 Hercules transport aircraft, believed to have been carrying SAS troops, crashed 20 miles north-west of Baghdad yesterday. Rescue helicopters flew over the crash site searching for any sign of life. But with the wreckage said...
Here's a great post by swopa at needlenose to take you step by step on how we got to this day of triumph for Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who, by the way, did not vote because he is Iranian.
Hala Jaber in the Sunday Times:"For what its worth, the election did go much, much better than many expected, both from the point of view of turnout, and from the point of view of security. After all, the Ministry of the Interior's official figure of 36 killed, mostly...
A British military plane has crashed north of Baghdad. No details yet. UPDATE: The UK's Press Association newswire quoted military sources in Iraq as saying the transport plane rarely travels north of Baghdad. The sources said the aircraft is primarily used to ferry...
