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New feature...
Sometimes, when it seems like we're spinning our wheels, it's good to look back a year or two to see what was going on in the Wonderful World of Terror. I've added two links up top on the main page to do that, and on September 11th I'll add a Three Years Ago link. Last year at this time U.S. troops in Afghanistan were duking it out with Badshah Khan Zadran's hard boyz. He's since retired from the tough guy game, though he's not dead, so he could return any time. The Soddies were rounding up suspects after the May 12th bombings in Riyadh. Tony Blair was in political trouble, Chuck Taylor was still in power in Liberia, and the Frenchies were shooting it out with cannibals in the DRC. The U.S. and the Norks were talking about having discussions that might lead to talks. The Pak coppers arrested five Bad Boyz in Karachi and the ayatollahs' hard boyz were thumping students in Teheran. 3rd ID had sealed off Fallujah and Rantissi had just rejected a cease-fire offer that he may have later, briefly, wished he'd taken. Two years ago Karzai was elected as leader of all the Afghans, you betcha. The U.S. and the Norks were talking about having discussions that might lead to talks. The U.S. had closed its embassy and consulates in Pakland and al-Qanoon had taken credit for the attack on our consulate in Karachi. Amr Moussa, head of the Arab League, warned the U.S. that the War on Terror wasn't the most important thing in the world; Paleostine was. Gen. Abdel Razak Yehiyeh, the newly appointed Paleostinian security chief, wanted to put an end to militias. That worked well, didn't it? And Abu Sabaya (remember him?) had escaped again in the Philippines. He's now The Late, so I guess we have made some progress, in those areas where it's not the same old thing, over and over again... Posted by: Fred 2004-06-13 |
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