Monday, August 09, 2004

Hollywood training camp for troops going to Iraq. 11:22:11 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

The next big shoe to drop in the oil market may by the August 15 referedum in Venezuela.  The Devil's Excrement is the site to watch. 8:32:39 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Reuters.  A mortar attack on the Iraqi oil ministry HQ in Baghdad by Sadr's forces, plus a threat against Basra oil production, shut down oil production from Iraq's southern fields today.  Update:  only the larger pipeline was shut down, but not due to a threat.  It was damaged in an attack.  The smaller pipeline is still pumping.  2:55:29 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

I have eliminated the comments on this weblog because most people were sending me e-mails directly vs. making comments to my weblog.  It also makes the weblog load faster (by 3-5x).  Update, due to popular demand, I will put them back up.  However, if they aren't used that often, I will take them down in exchange for speed.  1:03:02 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

New Post to Global Guerrillas  Iraq and Foco Insurgency.   Che Guevara's theory of a foco insurgency is working in Iraq.  Here's why. 12:59:51 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Brit techniques on defending Iraq's southern pipelines: "Mortar illumination is one of the techniques we use to guard the pipeline at night," said Captain Rhodri Darch, one of the officers responsible for pipeline security. Backing the mortar illuminations is a radar atop an armoured vehicle parked at a specific location in the desert that tracks movements along nearly 30 kilometres of the pipeline.  The radar can detect manned and unmanned vehicles, animals, or any other moving objects in the vicinity. During daytime, a joint team of Fusiliers and Iraqi National Guard monitors the pipeline from the air.  "We use helicopters and overfly the pipeline and if we observe anything suspicious we land there and do quick searches. This acts as a good deterrent," said Darch. 7:11:22 AM    Comment_ Trackback []