What ever happened to the fly-paper theory of invading Iraq? I was wondering about that before the Madrid bombing, but it seems an even more pertinent question now. "The surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans,"...
Alan at SoutherlyBuster has added up the gains and losses by each party: PSOE +39 PP -35 CiU (Catalan centre-right) 10 -5 ERC (Catalan leftists) 8 +7 EAJ-PNV (Basque moderates) 7 deputies, -0 IU (left-socialist) 5 deputies -4 CC (Canarian centrists, would have entered...
As I mentioned Thursday, the extradition of two Croatian generals to the Hague Inquisition has occasioned comments in the media about how Serbia now needs to arrest and extradite its own "indictees" in order to remain in the Empire's good graces. In the words of...
Stirling Newberry has a great post analysing the effect of the internet and cellphone on the Spanish election today. What happened was that evidence came to light that the PP had been told on Thursday, just after the bombings, that Morrrocan extremists, linked to Al...
With 85% of the vote in: El PSOE gana las elecciones, con el 85% de los votos escrutados (164 escaños) PP has 148
David Woods of the Patriot News asks, "Are there limits to American might? If so, are we reaching them?" Consider: The Iraq invasion caught the Pentagon so short of military cargo planes that it had to hire Russian aircraft to ferry tanks and other materiel. "We had...
40 aborted bombing runs: Australia's F/A-18 pilots defied the orders of American commanders and refused to drop their bombs on up to 40 missions during the invasion of Iraq, it can now be revealed. In a remarkable account of how our airmen applied Australian rules of...
A few paragraphs in this March 12th entry by Riverbend, a woman blogger in Iraq, caught my eye. It is about four Iraqi men detained by the US military who were able to buy their freedom when their families coughed up $300 payments to the soldiers holding them. I...
Chris Albritton, writing in his blog, Back to Iraq, believes there's reason to consider that the Madrid train bombing might be a joint operation: There’s no reason that al Qaeda wouldn’t work with — or help fund — groups that further its own ends in the short run....
Roderick Long gives Abu Hafs Brigades, who claim responsibility for the Madrid train bombing which killed at least 200 people, an "F" in Logic.
