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Monday, December 06, 2004 |
 FT. Details of the plan of attack on the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
8:50:06 PM 
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Houston Chronicle. Ancient hatreds bubble to surface in the fight over Nigeria's oil wealth. This is part of a "big idea" I am working on to model future conflict. Stay tuned.
8:30:09 PM
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I wouldn't get too worked up over inclusion in Google News. Global Guerrillas is included as a Google News source (as well I think it should be). However, Google is slow to index the site's pages, which means my stories aren't usually included in the breaking news people most often use. Also, the traffic I get from it is very small in comparison to what I get from the general Google search index.
8:15:46 PM
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MSNBC. A total of 338 Iraqis associated with the new governing structures or with the Americans have been assassinated since Oct. 1, according to U.S. military figures. This includes 35 police chiefs, mayors and middle-ranking officials.
6:32:42 PM
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WT. Ukrainian hard-liners prepared to plunge the nation into economic chaos rather cede control. One plan is to make attacks on pipelines and blame it on the western leaning opposition.
6:21:06 PM
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Boston Globe. This segment is a must read. US commanders and Iraqi leaders have declared their intention to make Fallujah a "model city," where they can maintain the security that has eluded them elsewhere. Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.
6:12:20 PM
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WT. Bin Laden generates $28 m a year in revenue from heroin trafficking. This is a drop in the bucket in the delta between the ~$4 billion a year in Afghan production and the ~$30 billion in retail value for this transnational industry. A commercial connection between Afghan guerrilla entrepreneurs and al Qaeda is a natural one and should continue to grow. There is very little the US can do to shut down Afghanistan's opium production.
10:37:29 AM
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JOURNAL: "Shaping" the battlefield in Saudi Arabia
9:05:13 AM
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