Iran Smuggling Uranium?

Shades of Yellowcake! Here we go again

UN ceasefire: as meaningfull as 1559?

So you will not see countries clamoring to move forces into Lebanon for quite a while because hostilities will still be underway. International forces are not going to come in until Israel gets the full pin on their opponent in other words. Look for this to run several more weeks, no matter what resolutions are made.

Photos, lies, and photoshop

Charles at Little Green Footballs is pointing out a probably doctored photo at Reuters, see the LGF article here.
Meanwhile, Silent Running catches secondary explosions from an AP photo, probable ammo or missile fuel explosion after the Israeli hit in a civilian area. It’s a spectacular photo so I can see why AP is running with [...]

India Reopens Blogging

Indian security officials are declaring that their blocking of blogs has proven counterproductive, and they have reopened many blocked sites in India. I am curious if you can get to The Jawa Report and others now from there.
CAUTION: You can tell that Capitalism is winning quite handily over Communism in India, turn on your pop [...]

WW III update Saturday, 8/5

In Afghanistan the Taleban forces continue to get crushed, and since opium season will soon be over expect that fighting to subside quite a bit over the next months. The Taleban are now relegated to attacking isolated police stations, suicide bombings, and attacks on girl’s schools, as the Nato forces are doing very well.