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News Flash: Iraqis Don’t Like Saddam

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID$481 Exclusive: ‘Terrified of Saddam Hussein’ Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News War Correspondent UMM QASR/BASRA, 30 March 2003 — Four days ago my friend, Mohammed Al-Deleami and I were invited by Abdul Rahman Almotawa, a...

Guantanamo Detainees Released…

http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid/03/30/16022146 Did anyone notice that eighteen detainees were sent home from Guantanamo? The NY Times and the Los Angeles Times decided it wasn’t newsworthy. Maybe it had something to do with the lack of sensationalism:...

Re: how does rumsfeld get out of this one?

I think they’re stuck. The reason there seem to be so many holes in the plan is because Bush is deceiving us about his objectives. By surrounding his military with a human shield, Saddam has effectively neutralized the ability for the US to use their Airpower to...

A Close, Dirty War

The General appears to be correct. However, he has missed one point: today’s failed Apache assault appears to reveal the cold reality that much of the coming Battle of Baghdad will occur without effective Close Air Support from tools like the A-10, the Apache,...

Veni, Vici, Vidi: Latin Lives On..

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,580910,00.html Veni, vidi, vici: how Latin lives on Latin has survived the fall of empire, the rise of the vernacular and the incomprehension of generations of schoolchildren. In this exclusive online essay from the...