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Sunday, August 08, 2004 |
 Guarding Haditha Dam, Iraq. 670 megawatts. Not long ago, the Marines say, a raid on suspected insurgents turned up a map of the dam marked with the locations of the American and Azerbaijani sentries and even the commander's room. They stepped up patrols and continued their raids. NOTE: most GGs attacks on electrical infrastructure in Iraq are on transmission lines. The effects are nearly the same if the attacks are repeated often enough (and they are). Simple, repeatable, safe.
7:54:42 PM 
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Reuters. Using the Internet to directly connect with supporters (good thinking): Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, in a web log posted on the Kerry Internet site, wrote they were surprised by the show of support and want to return to Lawrence to express their appreciation. "We had no news of any crowds waiting for us as we sped in the darkness through Kansas," she explained in the web log. She wrote that when they first spotted the people, "We raised our hands to wave, but the engineer hadn't slowed and by the time we had waved even a little to the signs and cheers and camera flashes, it was dark again."
9:54:30 AM
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A top al Qaeda cleric (Faris Ahmed Jamaan al-Showeel al-Zahrani) was arrested in a Saudi Internet Cafe yesterday. He uploading information to al Qaeda web sites. NOTE: If he was more adept, he would have hacked an open wireless network. This is a demonstration of how important the Internet is to GG operations. More on this with today's talk with Dr. Mark Last (audio available soon).
8:22:20 AM
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NPR. Iraqi forces torturing prisoners. Back to the future.
8:15:14 AM
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Interesting flow of how the fake beheading video made it to the AP: The video, which is intercut with grisly photographs of war victims taken from a Middle Eastern Web site and features a recording of someone reading the Quran on its soundtrack, was originally made in May and posted to two file- sharing sites, Soulseek and Kazaa. It all but disappeared until its appearance this weekend on www.islamic-minbar.com, a Web site in Arabic that has posted communiqués from Islamic radical groups and videos of victims who were beheaded by militants.
Soon after it appeared on the Islamic-Minbar site, the video was picked up by the Associated Press in Cairo, Reuters News Service and two Middle Eastern television broadcasters. From there, it quickly spread through the media by being picked up by newspapers, radio stations and television news operations.
7:16:04 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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