More Redbuds
These only come once a year and are here only briefly, so I promise an end to Redbuds soon.
Articles from March 2007
Hostage Crisis Linkstorm
For a good overview of the current Iran hostage crisis here’s a selection of links:
EU referendum covers the Rules of Engagement, my comment is that British Naval Regulations have always been of the strict “damned if you do, damned if you don’t ” variety, and they have always relied on the judgement and courage of [...]
Categories: Iran, Iraq, Military, Politics, Terrorism, War |
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Wana Battles: When Muslim Kills Muslim
All across the muslim world we are seeing muslim vs muslim violence, and it will continue. This is the ancient power struggle of the Islamic world, and the payback Islamic leaders, both secular and religious, gained by nurturing extremism. The crows always come home to roost.
Categories: Afghanistan, Military, Pakistan, Terrorism, War |
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The Latest GOP Bloggers poll out
The latest GOP Bloggers poll is below and please scroll down the right sidebar after you vote here to vote in the Pajamas Media Straw Poll if you haven’t already this week.
Kidnapped British Sailor Update
Iran has performed the expected act of broadcasting the captive Sailors on state run Iranian Television. (Remember: Iranian citizens can’t see opposing views anymore because the government confiscated Satellite dishes, and restricted internet access in the preceding months.)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Nothing political here, this is just a test to embed video, I picked this one because it’s humorous to both sides of the political aisle, and well done.
[ Editor: I've since removed the video even though it worked fine because the embed code causes errors on the page, and edit mode automagically wrecks the embed [...]
Categories: Art, Blogging, Bush, Politics |
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The World of Noblesse
 Here’s a picture of where my readers come from, as you can see they are spread over the world, but mostly in the US. You can see folks from the mid-east, troops from Diego Garcia (That dot in the Indian Ocean,) and from all seven six continents.
I express strong views on the site, but things that [...]
Categories: Blogging, Journalism |
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Baitullah Mehsud Flees to Afghanistan
This is either very encouraging news or very good government agitprop, the Daily Times reports that Baitullah Mehsud has fled to Afghanistan, and is in cohorts with “Indian Agents” and Hekmatyar. From the Daily Times:
ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies have informed the Interior Ministry that Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Taliban in Waziristan, fled to Afghanistan on [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Military, Pakistan, Terrorism, War |
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Mad Max Gunned Down
No, not this Mad Max
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Not this one either
It was this Mad Max:
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KIEV: A Russian businessman with suspected links to organised crime known as “Mad Max” was shot dead outside a court in Kiev where he had just been sentenced for extortion, police said.
Maskim Kurochkin, who had been in jail in the Ukraine since November 2006, [...]
Kidnapped Sailor Update
The kidnapping of the sailors was a strike against the British, who had just turned another province over to local Iraqi control. It is also a direct affront to the nation of Iraq, whose territorial waters the sailors were captured in.
Eason Jordan’s IraqSlogger Prints then Retracts Agitprop
Finish this sentence: The only place imaginary casualties come from is from our ______.
Wazir Update; Bajaur Accords signed
Usually I’m pretty good when I put on my “Karnak” hat, but on the other hand I could be wrong. (My wife tells me I am often wrong!) To sum up my view, I think the head’s apart from the snake, and every part of the body thinks it’s in control.
Categories: Afghanistan, Military, Pakistan, Terrorism, War |
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Dueling Howards
I’m Mad as Hell, and I’m not going to Take IT ANYMORE
USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109)
Special release from the U.S. Department of Defense
WASHINGTON (NNS) — The Department of Navy announced March 23 that the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer will be USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), honoring the late Cpl. Jason L. Dunham, the first Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The Secretary of the Navy, [...]
Kidnapped British Sailor update
The Scotsman outlines some of the behind-the-scenes action as the British government tries to gain the release of the sailors:
 After a day of shadow-boxing with a notoriously slippery regime, Tony Blair is set to up the ante: the plight of the Shatt al-Arab 15 is officially a crisis and he will need the Cobra team [...]
Categories: Iran, Military, Politics, War |
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Spring
 The redbuds are backÂ
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Soon, ah, soon the shy birds
Will be at their fluting,
And the morning planet
Rise above the garden;Â
For there is a measure
Set to all things mortal. — Sappho
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Waziristan Update
Who’s going to win in the end? My money’s on the guys with 20 centuries of experience in Asymetrical Warfare on their turf, the local Pashtun tribes.
Categories: Afghanistan, Freedom, Military, Pakistan, War |
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International Polar Year
The IPY is underway, a two-year study of the Earth’s, the Moon’s, and Mar’s polar regions. This is pretty exciting stuff, and I am sure that large quantities of data on the warming of the planet will come out of it.
Categories: Global Warming, Journalism, Science, The Future |
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Waziristan Peace Jirga Breakdown
Dawn reports that the peace demands of the local tribal leaders have been turned down by the Uzbeks, and this means the fighting will continue after 130 AQAM have already been killed. It’s either that or they better move fast out of the region.
Categories: Afghanistan, Freedom, Military, Pakistan, War |
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