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Monday, June 14, 2004 |
 A blow by blow account of the Khobar attack by the commander of the operation. Interesting:
"Then I phoned Al-Jazeera television, and they conducted an interview with us, that they did not release. I told them I was speaking with them from the compound, and that only the infidels were our targets.
7:32:51 PM 
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Reuters. The US trade deficit hits a record monthly figure: $48.3 b.
1:35:20 PM
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WP. This has the contractor community up in arms. In an early test of its imminent sovereignty, Iraq's new government has been resisting a U.S. demand that thousands of foreign contractors here be granted immunity from Iraqi law, in the same way as U.S. military forces are now immune, according to Iraqi sources.
Of course, US officials are still clueless about what PMCs do in Iraq:
"Are some Iraqi security people going to move in and arrest our cooks and bottle washers?" he said. "I don't think so."
10:48:26 AM
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WSJ. Natural gas production in the US will be flat despite a 4% increase in demand. This means that LNG production from Qatar and Russia will be critical.
7:19:37 AM
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I really like Furl. It allows me to create a searchable clipping library from articles I find using RSS (which for major media publications is usually just headlines +). One more item for inclusion in my personal digital dashboard.
6:48:27 AM
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Powell includes and interesting sentence in his explanation for errors in the terrorism report that signficantly understated actual activity in 2003:
"It's not a political judgment that said, 'Let's see if we can cook the books.' We can't get away with that now. Nobody was out to cook the books. Errors crept in."
As one former insider commented: the people at TTIC can't add. They aren't able to do the basic math expected of a third grader.
5:53:19 AM
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Three reports on how global guerrillas are using Iraq as a laboratory of strategy development (al Qaeda's proving ground).
5:42:35 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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