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Smarter Harper's is up...
You should always read Smarter Harper's. This month: demolishing the Harper's smear of Trent Lott; Bolivian anti-Americanism; Ralph does the Nevada Nuke Storage Facility...
Special feature — Harper's and the NEA: is it true love, or just lust?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:13 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bolivan fuss? I have been to Bolivia. Their main claim to fame is that one El Presidente was hanged from a lamp post in La Paz, as thousands cheered. They are also frustrated because neither Peru nor Chile will give them a sea port.
Posted by: Nuke Nightmare || 08/25/2002 9:30 Comments || Top||


Missing in action?
Gregory Hlatky, at A Dog's Life comments on the Beeb's list of the 100 Greatest Englishmen and finds some puzzling omissions, such as the Duke of Marlborough and Pitt (both the Elder and the Younger).

Shakespeare, Wellington, and Nelson are there, along with Good Queen Bess, and Drake and Raleigh, but maybe they could have replaced Johnny Rotten with Ben Jonson? Boy George with Christopher Marlowe? How about David Bowie with Disraeli? I might have put William the Conqueror on, too. Maybe he could take Julie Andrews' place. And Milton, don't forget him. And Spenser...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 08:21 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Axis of Evil
A little dissension in Islamic Paradise...
In a letter to ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i, the leader of the Islamic Republic, several commanders of the Guardian Corps of the Islamic Revolution (GCIR), have warned him against trying to use the Revolutionary Guards to proclaim a state of emergency. The letter was delivered to Mr. Khameneh'i hours after several hard line conservatives had urged the leader and other high-ranking officials to install an emergency situation, close the Majles, arrest several leading political activists among the reformers and clampdown on the press. At about the same time, a senior pro-conservative commander of the Guards, that is also known as Sepah (army), or Pasdaran (guardians) had attacked 151 lawmakers who had called for the release Mr. Siamak Poorzand, a 71 years-old veteran journalist accused of fomenting dissidence and collaborating with anti-revolutionaries abroad for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic and defended the banned Iran Freedom Movement.
Yep. That was the warning of the crackdown...
"We have to beg you not to try to manipulate your mighty sons guardians of the Islam and revolution, for, in case you want to use them for bringing emergency situation, this could led to bloodshed among the Pasdaran", the dissident commanders warned Mr. Khameneh'i who, as the leader of the regime, is also commander in chief of all Armed Forces, including the Revolutionary Guards.
"Hell no, we won't go"?
According to information obtained from informed sources by Iran Press Service, information confirmed Monday and Tuesday by Iranian press, former president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has proposed a state of emergency be proclaimed by the leader, permitting the closure of the Majles which is dominated by the reformers and reduce the government to the strict minimum.
That would be sure to calm things down, wouldn't it? I'm actually waiting for them to do that. It'll be the opening of the last act of the theocracy...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:06 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iran masses troops on Iraqi border...
Iran is amassing troops on its border with Iraq in case of a US invasion to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "Iranian troops have returned to the positions they held during the (1980-1988) Iran-Iraq war," said the Revolutionary Union of Kurdistan chief Hussein Yazdanpana, who lives in the eastern city of Arbil. In recent days, Iranian troops, including the elite Revolutionary Guard, "have been deployed... along the 2,000 kilometre (1,200 mile) border," he said. Iran has also closed its border crossing to the northern Iraqi Kurdish enclave, which is protected from Saddam by US and British air patrols. "The Iranian army is waiting for the United States to conduct a war against Iraq so it can interfere in the affairs of the Kurdish region and the rest of the country," he said.
Nightmare scenario here: The U.S. mounts an invasion of Iraq and Iran takes that as its opportunity to invade the Kurdish-held areas. I can't see a scenario where the Iranians would come in on the Iraqi side — there's not even irrational self-interest there — but I can see them jumping in and trying to grab off a big piece of Kurdistan for themselves, putting us between the rock of extending the war to them, and the hard place of acquiescing...
Yazdanpana pleaded for Washington "to ensure the protection of Kurds in Iraq and Iran in case of a military strike on Iraq."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:06 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iranian opposition pirates TV station...
Several members of the provincial governmental TV station of Hamadan have been arrested following the interruption on Thursday of the regular programs and the broadcasting of pictures showing abuses made in Iran. The Hamedan official Tv program was interrupted for several minutes following this pirate broadcasting. Opponents of the regime have made several actions such as the pirating of the governmental TV. The families of the arrested have been notified to avoid speaking on the matter which shocked thousands of Hamedanis. Many thought of a take over of the governmental facility by the oposition forces.
They must have known that was coming. That was pure self-sacrifice...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:06 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iranian speaker utter defiant platitudes...
Majlis Speaker Mehdi Karrubi said on Saturday that popular support forms the foundation for strength of every government.
Really? Who'da thunkit!
In a meeting with government employees, Karrubi said that a government system relying on the people will never be exposed to threats. "No power can fight with a nation to destroy it.
Ummm... What happened to Kuwait, about ten years back? A power fought with it and destroyed it. We had a hell of a time getting it undestroyed...
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has theoretically given the upper hand to the people so that the people play a determining role over all state affairs," Karrubi said in reference to US threats against Iran.
Theoretically, anyway...
"The late Imam Khomeini always called himself the servant of the people and never wanted to deceive them," the Majlis speaker said.
Dictators usually describe themselves that way, don't they?
"Our nation will remain loyal to the Islamic Republic as long as they reach the point that we are sincere to them. We should work for the people to help remove the difficulties the people face in every day life," Karrubi pointed out.
Having screwed things up this royally, it's probably past time to start trying to unscrew them. But religion's more important that individual well-being, so what to they have to complain about?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:06 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


New U.N. ambassador to open new horizons in Iran-U.S. ties
The new Iranian ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Mohammad-Javad Zarif, is commissioned by the Iranian administration to open new horizons in Iran-U.S. relations, the news website Emruz reported Sunday. Emruz quoted Zarif as saying that his main job was to “lobby with the three main political factions in the United States”.
"Three"? Democrats, Republicans, and... The New York Times? The Zionist Lobby®? The INS?
“The first success which must be achieved is hearing only one voice from Iran,” Zarif said, referring to several political sources in Iran commenting on the foreign policy issues and especially the U.S. but not reflecting the official stance of Iran and hence causing diplomatic complications.
Actually they do represent both official stances...
Zarif, a former deputy foreign minister appointed in June as new U.N. envoy, is considered as the number two in Iran’s foreign ministry — after Minister Kamal Kharrazi — and, as a close aide of President Mohammad Khatami, the main diplomatic bridge between Teheran and international communities. Zarif had arranged the 1997 summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Teheran and is one of the main advocators of Khatami’s “Dialogue among Civilizations”.
So far the "dialogue" has consisted of:

"You're ugly!"
"I hate you!"
"Yer muddah wears army shoes!"
"Yore sister is so-o-o-o-o fat..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:06 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


8 killed, 9 wounded in U.S.-Brit strikes in Basra...
Eight Iraqis were killed and nine others wounded in US and British air strikes on civilian installations in Basra in southern Iraq. "The American and British criminals have committed a new odious crime against our proud and strong people, when their warplanes pounded civilian installations in the province of Basra ... killing eight people and wounding nine others," said the spokesman, quoted by the state INA news agency.
Sure. There aren't any military targets in Iraq, so we have to waste our time indiscriminately bombing civilians...
"Missile batteries and anti-aircraft defences took action and forced the enemy planes to flee to their bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait," he said.
No doubt...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 11:32 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
By the way, have you seen this 1996 "Warning from the future"?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/569nzbrd.asp?ZoomFont=YES

Came across it via http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=3883#comments

I'd like to know what you think of the outlined scenario.

Thanks.
Posted by: Jay || 08/25/2002 14:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I saw the same article and he raises a good many points that we should be taking as warnings. At the point we're at now, I don't think the Bad Guys are going to win, but if they eventually do it'll be because of many of the points Col. Dunlap brings up. Some of them were laid out by Abu 'Ubeid Al-Qurashi earlier this year and we can probably take them as al-Qaeda doctrine.

My own opinion is that the gravest mistake the Bush administration has made to date has been to let the memory and the anger fade. If I were president, which luckily for the nation I'm not, I would harp on it every day. When he does express his revulsion at the Evil opposed to us the nation backs him and respects him for it; he just doesn't do it often enough, at least not in public. A part of this is predicated on diplomatic concerns, but he should also be pushing the point that the time for talk, compromise and understanding of the other side's position passed when the first plane hit the first tower of the WTC. It's my opinion that we shouldn't be talking to the people on the other side, and that when a person's membership on the other side is established communication should cease on the spot. That applies to the Paleostinians, to the Saudis, to Iraq, to the Pak jihadi parties, and virtually to anyone who says a kind word about them. The rest of the world should be in the position of trying to appease us, not vice versa. But I'm not in charge, the National Security Council never called and asked my advice, and probably they know someting I don't know.

But letting people forget, letting the anger die away, also makes them forget their willingness to take casualties in the defense of the nation. At some point those casualties are going to come; people are going to spend too much time grieving and fixing blame, and not enough counterattacking and killing our enemies in droves.

Col. Dunlap raises the point of women in combat, which is an argument that's been going on since I was in the Army. It's an argument that's performance-based on one side, and politically based on the other. It's an argument the military has been losing, one bit at a time - and they're not the side pushing the politically-based argument. Feminists and their supporters push the position of what should, theoretically be; the military responds with what is, that is, empirically, what's empirically observable. Eventually we're going to pay a big price for losing that argument, and the women who're going to be the means of making us pay the price wholesale are going to suffer horribly retail.

He's also right that information superiority is a temporary advantage to our side. We've effectively lost the export encryption battle - it was a battle we knew we were going to lose. And the availability of sophisticated weapons to unsophisticated enemies is going to continue to be a problem as long as we still have warfare.

I think what he discounts is the superiority of an actual soldier to a guy holding a gun - the warrior. I've mentioned this in passing, and Steven den Beste has addressed it on a couple occasions. One-to-one, the warrior actually has an advantge: he's the one who's got to prove him manhood, never retreat, take bloody revenge on his enemies, all that stuff, while the soldier is reminding himself that retreat is a perfectly acceptable military maneuver. The advantage to the warrior drops markedly when the numbers get above a dozen, say, enough for a good gang fight. Soldiers are disciplined, warriors aren't. Soldiers are task-organized, warriors aren't. Soldiers train under arduous conditions until they're bored with it, then train some more. That's why the Israelis regularly beat the snot out of the Paleostinians and all the Arab armies they've fought. It's why the Gulf War was a rout, why the Taliban collapsed.

The task organization part of it at this point covers all three services - Army, Navy and Air Force. Thanks to the Soviets, who invented the concept, the U.S. military's been working on the idea since the mid-70's, almost 30 years of refinement. Only when it comes together is it obvious, and most of the time it's training in parts. It's so overwhelming that it causes the hand-wringing brigades to worry about "push-button wars" and "Nintendo wars." They don't understand that the objective of war isn't to have your infantry come to grips with his infantry, but to kill the Bad Guys, preferably in large enough quantities that the whole shebang gives up. Had we attacked Sammy with ground forces on January 16th, Gulf War I would have gone much differently.

So I'm not as worried as Col. Dunlap is in his article. I don't think he is in real life, either. I think the article's more a warning to stop doing stoopid things with the military and to recognize that Fouth Generation War is predicated on avoiding concentrations of force, which produces the kind of targets Combined Arms operations like. But at the same time, if you can't concentrate your forces you can't deliver the kind of blow that breaks the enemy. You're stuck relying on war of attrition. That raises more problems, but as soon as you move from attrition to maneuver, you're shot.
Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2002 18:52 Comments || Top||


Caucasus
Georgia sends troops into Pankisi Gorge...
Georgia has sent about 1,000 troops into the lawless Pankisi Gorge near the border with Chechnya, which Russia says has become a refuge for Chechen rebels. The Georgian Interior Ministry said its forces were undertaking anti-criminal and anti-terrorist operations in the gorge.
About time, isn't it? They've been putting it off long enough...
Tension between Russia and Georgia over the gorge has been mounting in recent weeks and Moscow has threatened direct military action unless Tbilisi tackles the problem. Georgia claims that Russian jets bombed villages near the gorge on Friday. Russia strongly denied the claim but the United States issued a rebuke against a "violation of Georgian sovereignty".
Guess they figured if they don't get off the stick and do it, the Russers were going to...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 11:15 am || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is virtually the scenario that got the Russian Empire into the Caucasus in the first place in the early 1800's. "If you can't keep your thieving subjects under control we will do it for you."
Posted by: Tom Roberts || 08/26/2002 5:01 Comments || Top||


East/Subsaharan Africa
Calls for Nuba Mountains independence
A leading southern Sudanese activist has called for independence for the Nuba Mountains region in southwestern Sudan, as part of a final negotiated peace deal expected to follow ongoing talks to end the country's long-standing conflict.
Doesn't anybody want to be in Sudan?
The Sudanese veteran politician and leader of the Free Sudanese National Party (FSNP), Father Philip Abbas Ghabbush said he would like to see the Nuba Mountains made independent under international trusteeship if the peace talks being held in Kenya failed to address the issue of the region. The negotiations are being conducted in the southwestern Kenyan town of Machakos. They are a follow-up to talks in July at which a landmark agreement was reached between the Khartoum government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) on the holding of a referendum in the south in six years' time to decide between unity and secession.
Kind of a six-year ceasefire...
However, the issue of the Nuba Mountains did not feature in the July talks, according to Ghabbush. "We will ask for making the Nuba Mountains an independent entity, under the responsibility of the United Nations. It was not stated during the talks that the Nuba Mountains belong to the north or the south," he said. Khartoum has so far insisted that southern Sudan is defined by boundaries set at independence from Anglo-Egyptian rule in 1956. These exclude Nuba Mountains, southern Blue Nile and other disputed and marginalised regions, whose inhabitants, the SPLM/A argues, identify with the southern struggle, although not physically in the south.
They're sticking to the letter of the document in this case because it's to their advantage. Are the Nubians going to get their way? Probably not. Sounds like a lost cause to me.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


President Omar dismisses dissenting minister
President Omar Beshir dismissed Transport Minister Lam Akol, who defected from the president's ruling National Congress to form a new party.
"Bad boy! No seat for you!"
The dismissal decree was announced late Thursday, a day after Akol and his colleague officially launched the Justice Party. No successor to Akol was announced.
Must not be a very important seat, huh?
At the launch of the Justice party last Wednesday Akol, a former engineering lecturer from southern Sudan, appeared together with Mekki Belayel from the Nuba Mountain and Amin Benani from Darfur, both of whom were formerly prominent National Congress members. Their stated reason for quitting the National Congress was that the party was not democratic in that it was being run by a small clique without transparency.
That's because it's a dictatorship. What's complicated about that?
The three politicians said they regard themselves as championing the cause of marginalised parts of the Sudan.
Are they talking about the southerners? Omar's gonna have to deal with them on some level when it comes to running the government...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Paleogoons murder lady freedom fighter...
The body of a Palestinian woman accused of collaborating with Israeli forces has been found in the West Bank town of Tulkarm. Ikhlas Khouli, 35, is the first woman to be executed by the Palestinians as a suspected collaborator with the Israelis.
By "collaborator" they mean a fighter for freedom...
A member of the militant group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said it had seized her from her house and videotaped a confession before shooting her as a warning to others. The militia member said Khouli had admitted recruiting her 18-year-old son Baker to assist her. Baker Khouli, who has been held by the militia since Thursday, had allegedly told his mother of the movements of a local chief of the militia, Ziad Daas.
So they're going to bump off Baker, as well...

UPDATE:
Baker sez he he made up the story under torture and shows the bruises to prove it.
An Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader said his group was forced to "strike with an iron hand" to prevent collaboration with Israel.

"I know that this woman had children but we had no choice. We left her son alive to take care of the children," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Asked why his group employed torture, he said: "This is the only way you can get confessions from such people who betray their people."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 01:02 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


IDF rounding them up on the West Bank...
  • Israeli troops raided the Palestinian town of Salfit in the West Bank early on Sunday. An army spokesman said that at least five Palestinians had been arrested in the operation north of Ramallah which commenced before dawn and continued into the early morning. An additional five arrests were made elsewhere in the West Bank overnight.
  • Israeli troops arrested a suicide bomber and two accomplices in the village of Marka south of Jenin, Israel Radio quoted Palestinian sources as saying Sunday.
  • The army also detained a Palestinian man in Hebron area and a Hamas member in a village south of Nablus, whom it said was connected to the East Jerusalem-based Hamas cell captured last week and which carried out eight attacks this year, including the bombing at the Hebrew University.
    Toldja the Paleocoppers wouldn't be doing anything. Believing the IDF wouldn't have to do it themselves was nothing but the same wishful thinking that went into the Oslo accords...
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 11:19 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Al-Aqsa thug greased in Jenin...
    Israeli troops shot dead early Sunday a Palestinian fighter in a gunbattle. Mohammad Hatem Aott, 23, was the Jenin leader of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was killed in a clash with Israeli troops patrolling in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, local witnesses said. Israeli military sources confirmed the death and said a second Palestinian gunman was wounded. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades praised their leader for "taking part in operations which killed several Israeli soldiers and settlers", vowing to avenge his death with "martyr operations."
    Yeah, yeah. They're always avenging something...
    Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 11:22 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  I have an idea. Since the guys on the Arab side are not doing very well, why not sit down and try making peace and for once at long last accepting the fact that the cause of all the mess in the ME is not the existence of Israel but rather the fucked up countries that are ruled by fascists.
    Posted by: freddie || 08/25/2002 13:41 Comments || Top||

    #2  Nah. That'd never work, because, ummm....
    Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2002 14:05 Comments || Top||


    Paleos say we can stuff the prime minister idea...
    Palestinians have rejected a U.S. proposal to have their parliament choose a prime minister who could balance the power of Yasser Arafat — and an official said Friday that sharp disagreements with Washington could jeopardize Palestinian elections scheduled for January.
    There's always a reason, isn't there?
    Washington has been seeking to sideline Arafat while calling for elections as part of attempts to persuade the Palestinian Authority to undertake sweeping reforms. As an alternative to the 73-year-old leader, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, in a meeting in Washington with Palestinian officials two weeks ago, proposed that the Palestinian parliament choose a prime minister. In a report Friday to an international task force in Paris on Palestinian reform, the Palestinian Authority said it would not agree to changes in the electoral system used by Palestinians in 1996 to confirm Arafat as leader. "We told them (the United States) that this is not your business," Saeb Erekat said. "We were shocked during the discussions that the American side is speaking about changing the law of elections."
    He's right. It's not our business. Our business is not to do business with Arafat and his clique. We should simply state our position, never deviate in the least, and let them figure out how to please us for a change...
    Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 11:28 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Southeast Asia
    Pentagon gang chief waxed in Magallanes...
    Police in the Philippines say security forces have killed the leader of a notorious gang of kidnappers in a gun battle. The dead man was named as Faisal Marohombsar, leader of the Pentagon Gang, a group of former Muslim separatist guerrillas regarded by the United States as terrorists.
    Actually, they're just crooks. They just act like Abu Sayyaf. When last heard from, Faisal said he didn't feel like negotiating anymore...
    Two other suspects were captured and one policeman was injured in the gun battle on Sunday in Magallanes, 65 kilometres (40 miles) south of the capital Manila. A four-year-old girl, Patricia Chong, and her nanny, Winena Jordan, were freed from week-long captivity during the operation, police said.
    I hope they stuff him and mount him. These guys have a habit of "rising from the dead."
    Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 09:32 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Terror Networks
    Sal Mineo Saudi suspect surrenders in Arabia...
    A Saudi Arabian man wanted by the FBI as a suspected associate of the 11 September hijackers has voluntarily surrendered, his father says. Abdulaziz Saudi al-Rasheed says his son, Saud, went to the Saudi Interior Ministry on Thursday, two days after the FBI issued a worldwide alert calling for his arrest. Mr al-Rasheed said his son had learned that he was wanted when he was in Egypt and had immediately returned to Riyadh.
    "Flight, don't fail me now!"
    Mr al-Rasheed, who works for the Saudi Red Crescent, told the Associated Press news agency that he was confident of his son's innocence. "He has never held a gun in his life," he said. The Saudi authorities have not commented on the case. Mr al-Rasheed said he believed his son's picture might have reached the US via Pakistani authorities, possibly from his visa application or from his passport.
    And not in a group photo, standing with a bunch of crazed killers...
    The US authorities — acting on what they called recently acquired information — said the 21-year-old was armed and dangerous. Mr al-Rasheed denied the FBI's claims, saying his son had no links with terror groups and had never visited the United States or Europe. He said he was concerned for Saud's safety.
    He's in Soddy Arabia now. He'll be safe until the kingdom falls.
    Mr al-Rasheed said that Saud had been in Afghanistan carrying out humanitarian work for "fellow Muslims", but had returned to Saudi Arabia long before the 11 September attacks. "He confirmed to me he had no relations with any terror group there, specifically al-Qaeda or the Taleban regime," he said.
    It's that definition of "humanitarian work" that arouses my suspicion. And whether the lad defines al-Qaeda as a "terror group." (I got something out of listening to Bill Clinton explain things, by golly...)
    Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 08/25/2002 10:03 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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