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June 18, 2005
Napalm: Making it stick
[Chicken Yoghurt] Khalid ash-Shaykhli's assertion back in March that banned weapons may have been used in the assault on Fallujah (a claim that nobody seems overly keen to get to the bottom of), it seems to me that this so-called war of liberation has been fought with precious little morality on either side (see also the lack of a count of the dead.)
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Index of /] Kevin Willis > you. easily.: such terror operations before 1997 - and whoever it was, Im not impressed. Before Khalid Sheikh Mohammed...
[Lincolnplawg.blogspot.com] The Lincoln Plawg - the blog with footnotes: Which leads me to wonder: is there a way in which legislators can maintain their present indeterminacy of position on the war, whilst still nevertheless taking some kind of action to delay it - at the very least? Is there some sort of procedural gizmo hidden in the House or Senate Rules that, without causing the almighty and thoroughly counterproductive mayhem of Newt Gingrich's exercises in shutting down the Federal government, could be used to buy a little time by sprinkling a little sand in the war machine?
[Hanscomfamily.com] The Hanscom Family Weblog: March 2005 Archives: The Hanscom Family Weblog. A weblog for the Hanscom family. ... Al Jazeera also reported that Dr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli, an official at Iraqs health ministry ...
[Home.earthlink.net] Accidents and Inspiration: Except that he would be nowhere without people who support him, and as the revelation that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the "real" mastermind behind 9/11 proves, even eliminating Bin Laden wouldn't have done much good. The only thing that has a chance in hell of working is learning WHY these people think the way they do and working to eliminate the cause of their problems (poverty, lack of education) instead of eliminating the leaders, who will always have other leaders to follow them.
[Bloggercrab.com] The Ugly American: Three months after the tsunami hit Aceh, the New York Times ran a distressing story reporting that "almost nothing seems to have been done to begin repairs and rebuilding." The dispatch could easily have come from Iraq, where, as the Los Angeles Times just reported, all of Bechtel's allegedly rebuilt water plants have started to break down, one more in an endless litany of reconstruction screw-ups. It could also have come from Afghanistan, where President Hamid Karzai recently blasted "corrupt, wasteful and unaccountable" foreign contractors for "squandering the precious resources that Afghanistan received in aid." Or from Sri Lanka, where 600,000 people who lost their homes in the tsunami are still languishing in temporary camps.
[Littlegreenfootballs.com] lgf: Is Islam Itself a Threat?: Yahya related to me from Malik from Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali from his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab mentioned the Magians (fire worshippers) and said, "I do not know what to do about them." Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf said, "I bear witness that I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw) say, 'Follow the same sunnah with them that you follow with the people of the Book'" [Muwatta].
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Iraq, Iraq Reviews
Posted at June 18, 2005 07:39 PM
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