April 28, 2008
'Jibberish' - 07:54 AMHezbollah is a fascinating and highly secretive organization, and these two facts give rise to some of the most ridiculous journalism around. The Observer's recent article is a great example: The group's policy of refusing to discuss military matters extends...
June 25, 2006
'Seas of David' - 04:48 AMFor the record, anyone who believed for a second that a group calling itself "Seas of David" was a violent Islamic fundamentalist group of the al-Qaeda family is officially too stupid to live. Josh Marshall fleshes out the real story...
August 18, 2005
'Able Danger' - 11:58 AMI don't really have time to go into this in the detail that I want, and this post is mostly just a glorified bookmark for myself. However, if you want to dive into the whole Able Danger flap that's going...
July 28, 2005
'The Voices of Opposition' - 01:29 PMThe New York Times reports today on the newly released memos against torture written by military lawyers: The documents include one written by the deputy judge advocate general of the Air Force, Maj. Gen. Jack L. Rives, advising the task...
July 26, 2005
'Chronicles of Kidnapping and Torture' - 05:32 PMThis post reminded me that I'd been meaning to write up all the evidence of torture and kidnapping as official government policy that's piled up over the past couple years. This isn't all of it, but it's a start. If...
July 24, 2005
'Connections' - 12:48 PMBritish authorities are now saying that the attempted bombings in London on July 21st may be directly related to the bombings on July 7th. A flier in a backpack found with undetonated explosives on a London bus was for a...
July 21, 2005
'Aftershocks' - 11:18 AMMore bombings in London today. From the sound of it, my first take is that these guys were amateur militants. The execution was so shoddy, and the damage so minor, I'm betting they were entirely freelance - no Al Qaeda...
July 12, 2005
'On The Origins of International Terrorism' - 08:50 PMI have been overtaken by the latest blogosphere craze, it seems. I spent the last day or so chopping up and pasting together a treatise-sized post on the origins of terrorism and their similarity to the causes of revolutionary movements...
July 08, 2005
'War on Terror: Getting Serious' - 08:06 AMThe Bush Administration has often been lambasted for making more political hay than progress in the War on Terror. They grabbed Jose Padilla and trumpeted the fact before he had a chance to do anything or lead them anywhere. They...
July 07, 2005
'London Bombing' - 12:19 PMThere's precious little clear about what's happening in London right now. These things take time to sort out, so I don't think we'll know with any certainty the exact nature or extent of the bombings in London for a few...