Wednesday, May 26, 2004

CBS.  More infrastructure attacks:  a bomb stopped the flow of Iraqi oil to a key export terminal in Turkey, and insurgents bombed a bridge in Numaniya, destroying part of it and disrupting traffic. 10:35:55 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

William Lind:  Perhaps our most disastrous failure (beyond Abu Ghraib) to realize that psyops are what we do, not what we say, is our ongoing fight with the Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr. At the beginning of April, Sadr had almost no support in the Shiite community outside Baghdad’s Sadr City, while Ayatollah Sistani, who has passively cooperated with the occupation, had overwhelming support. Now, thanks to our attacks on Sadr and his militia, polls taken in Iraq show Sadr with more than 30% support among Shiites while Sistani has slipped to just over 50%. The U.S. Army has been Sadr’s best publicity agent. Maybe it should send him a bill. 7:17:29 AM    Comment_ Trackback []