Thursday, October 14, 2004

Excellent On Point show on journalism in Iraq.  10:02:04 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

BBC.  Aristide supporters are adopting global guerrilla tactics.  The expansion continues.... Aristide supporters have stepped up their campaign to restore Mr Aristide, launching what they called Operation Baghdad. More beheadings have taken place since. "They said they were going to transform Port-au-Prince into Baghdad, referring to the situation of the hostages in Iraq," Haitian journalist Herold Jean Francoise told the BBC's Spanish website, BBCMundo.com "And the beheadings started soon after that. It seems they want to give sustenance to the arguments of Aristide supporters in the USA during the electoral campaign that Bush's policy in Haiti has failed. It's part of a well-defined strategy," he said. 8:54:56 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

All Africa.  More details on the Nigerian attack that took out the Trans Niger 28-inch pipeline earlier in the week.  Pakistan:  work on the Gurguri gas/oil field/pipeline in  Pakistan was stopped when a Taliban influenced jirga ordered an attack on the site.  Over 250 workers were evacuated. 6:25:25 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

WT.  Take this with a grain of salt.  Chechen fighters are "seen" almost everywhere.  25 Chechen terrorists with backpacks supposedly entered the US in July via Mexico through the border with Arizona.  Officials believe Adnan Shukrijumah, whom the FBI wants for questioning, met with alien smugglers (JR:  El Salvadorian gangs) in Mexico and Honduras and was seeking ways to bring al Qaeda members into the United States. Shukrijumah was seen in August in the Sonora province of northern Mexico, officials said. 4:34:17 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

My hosting provider just told me that their server was hacked.  There is a malicious pop-up attached to my site now.  They are working to remove it. UPDATE: It appears to have been fixed. 4:01:12 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

This statement sums up the rogue regime approach of the Bush administration.  BUSH:  Well, as I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban. In this statement, Bush demonstrates that he fundamentally doesn't understand decentralized guerrillas.  If the scorecard on victory is the elimination of rogue regimes, we will lose (and badly). 8:00:25 AM    Comment_ Trackback []