Saturday, May 13

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Sa May 13 -

BAGHDAD AGENDA II -

I would propose that one of the key strategies applicable to this situation could be predicated on the impossibility of Zarqawi eliminating all The Eyes watching him, as long as he feels the eery sensation that he is being watched.

Read the material for yourself
and see what you think...

:: THE ZARQAWI PLAN ::

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:
Sa May 13 -

THEIR BAGHDAD AGENDA -

Somehow, CMAR II at IBC connected up with a soldier who has access to confiscated intel material which is now hereby released into our Distributed Network. I presume this is based on the concept DIA used with a previous set of documents which they released for translation and analysis. How did CMAR II pull this off? Hey, if I told you, I'd have to kill you ;-)

Anyhoo, the material does seem pretty credible to me-- at least, I'll stipulate it as authentic for the sake of this discussion.

According to my analysis,
the fatal flaw in Zarqawi's
plan is: THE EYES.

"this will reduce
the eyes that they
depend on to track us"

Yeah, you only wish!

Continued in next entry...
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Friday, May 12

:
Fr May 12 -

OUT OF CONTROL:
Ameriyah, Baghdad -


Salam Pax is blogging again...

He reports that Sunni Fundamentalist enforcers have been trying to purge Shiites out of the Ameriyah neighborhood in
western Baghdad.

Shiite children have been expelled from the schools there and their parents pauperized and forced to flee without their household goods.

:: Salam Pax Blog: perma ::

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:
Fr May 12 -

M.E. PROGRESSIVES -

Ori Nir at The (Jewish) Forward is reporting that Osama Bin Laden has publicly called upon his following to kill four "liberal" figures in the Gulf region.

They are: Ahmad Al-Baghdadi and Shamlan Al-'Issa of Kuwait, Saudi Labor Minister Ghazi Al-Qusaibi and Saudi columnist Turki Al-Hamad.

* * * * *

Meanwhile, Mahmood in Bahrain has posted an interesting and thought-provoking entry entitled An Islamic State or a State for Muslims?

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:
Fr May 12 -

SoFlo:
SUNSHINE LAWS -

...some worry that the Legislature is laughing it off. "I'm finding the attitude of some of the members sort of disturbing. It's like sort of a big joke, or something"...

Kevin Begos has written a nice article entitled Public Access Laws Took Hit in Session in which he has tried to present some "pros" along with the cons.

But he has missed a serious problem in Broward County which I blogged about previously: there has been a practice of "hiding" court cases from public scrutiny. I consider this practice dangerous. I would even go so far as to characterize it as a ticking time bomb in the court closet; it's only a matter of time before someone or something they've hidden explodes.

:: TampaTrib via ::
-- Justin Sayfie's Review
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:
Fr May 12 -

SPY VS SPY -

"We're not mining or
trolling through the
personal lives of millions
of innocent Americans."

:: WashTimes ::

* * * * *

"In spite of Defendants' promise and duty not to place ads in pernicious spyware programs, Defendants have done just that, and have charged their advertising customers for every click made on spyware pop-up ads," the court documents claim.

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Thursday, May 11

:
Th May 11 -

ABRAMOFF WH LOG
ENTRIES: TANGENTIAL -


Jim Drinkard has a deceptively simplified disclosure of the White House Secret Service Visitors Log information requested by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act.

A hermeneutic exploration of the murky margin of ambiguity inherent in the "apparently incomplete" information reveals that the Hanukkah Fairy may have been at work here and/or non-interpersonal propinquity may have occurred. Huh???

There remain discrepancies and inconsistencies even yet. The issue still seems to lack resolution and closure. Perhaps, it defies the kind of certitude
being sought.

Art has form. If this were a novel, everything would have to fit neatly together. But because this is real life, there exists a window of ambiguity you could drive a Mack truck through. Thus, you are left to your own devices, as is often the case, to invent your own explanation or fill in that window with your own imaginative resources.

It must be a conspiracy; at least, if you are pre-inclined in that direction. Or String Theory could account for it; people co-existing in different dimensions while attending the same social event. Or, maybe, it's the old phone-in-the-shoe trick:
plausible deniability.

Does your brain hurt now? Try to
avoid breaking it over this story.
LOL!

:: Drinkard: USA Today ::
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:
Th May 11 -

CAIRO STREETS BOILING -

"They are beating people
up like mad in the streets."

More reporters and photogs
brutalized. Some pro-reform
demonstrators detained.

:: TBO.com / AP Int'l ::

:: Alaa blogs from prison ::

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:
Th May 11 -

CAN THEY KEEP
THEIR SECRETS?

"We can no longer find words to express our horror at the tragedies constantly suffered by the Press in Iraq," Reporters Without Borders said, urging Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki to investigate the killings.

:: TBO.com / AP Int'l ::


And Omar at ITM carefully studies the continued anomie in the Adhamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad. Maybe we should send his findings to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.

:: ITM/Omar/perma ::

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Wednesday, May 10

:
We May 10 -

IRAQI PHONE CHANTING -

A veiled woman
associated with Moqtada al-Sadr,
Ms Gufran al-Saidi, rudely failed
to turn off her mobile phone
ringtone for an Iraqi Parliament
meeting today, resulting in the
eruption of a Shiite chant
being emitted from it
twice. A scuffle ensued.

:: Shia ringtone: UK Times ::

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:
We May 10 -

U.N. INHUMAN COUNCIL -

*Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia won seats on the new U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday despite their poor human rights records, but two rights abusers - Iran and Venezuela - were defeated.*

By Edith Lederer, AP
:: TBO.com ::

+ Maybe this function should be abolished altogether at that institution; surely, there are enough private human rights monitoring organizations by now to address the issue without them.
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:
We May 10 -

WE CHATTER, TOO -

Blogger gives a
peripatetic recap of the
recent WeMedia meetup
with lotsa links.

Worth a spin!

:: cubicgarden.com ::

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:
T/We May 10 -

CAN YOU HEAR HIM NOW...

Report of a Middle Eastern man purchasing hundreds of cell phones in Alabama. These devices can be used to detonate bombs. He was apparently acting as an agent on behalf of another ME man in California who allegedly has been under investigation for terrorist activity.

:: From The CCD via WND ::

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