Saturday, April 01, 2006

Writing on the wall

Winds of war, or Straw in the wind? What says the Straman?
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16 comments:

Mr roT said...

Interesting as hell. I wonder about the last time, though. Same source and that time obviously bull.

Could you provide a link to the old story, AI, please? I've lost it.

This time Condi is in the UK, though. Maybe there's something here, who knows?

I don't know about you guys, but I think it's something that has to be done. Nowadays even the goddamn Saudis are saying Israel did the right thing in knocking out Saddam and Chirac's reactor at Osirak in '81.

Shame we condemned them for that. WTF were we thinking?

This story could be nonsense put out for general consumption in Teheran and environs. Maybe last time they spouted obvious nonsense so that the Iranian military would know it was an empty threat. I don't see any glaring falsehoods here. I'll have another look, though.

4/01/2006 10:22 PM
Tecumseh said...

Right now, I wouldn't worry too much about the past, but rather, try to think ahead a move or two. So, what do you think of this potentil counter-gambit? Not reassuring.


But terrorism experts considered Iranian-backed or controlled groups -- namely the country's Ministry of Intelligence and Security operatives, its Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah -- to be better organized, trained and equipped than the al-Qaeda network that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

4/01/2006 10:37 PM
Tecumseh said...

Plausible denial.

4/01/2006 10:49 PM
Tecumseh said...

Behind the curve on this one!

4/01/2006 10:58 PM
Mr roT said...

Chaff.

4/01/2006 10:59 PM
Mr roT said...

Chaff referred to the BBC story.. Debka is interesting. A chance to test Debkarelcao.

4/01/2006 11:01 PM
Tecumseh said...

Check the timeline, though -- I beat the Debkaroos to the punch by a few minutes on this story! Where's my Stone IPA?

4/01/2006 11:13 PM
Tecumseh said...

More straws
in the wind. And, this is gonna be a pretty strong wind, whaddaya think?

4/01/2006 11:18 PM
Mr roT said...

How in the hell do we get 635 tons of boomboom to Iran? This is not enough! Maybe they'll let us in with trucks and shit.

4/01/2006 11:39 PM
Tecumseh said...

I'd rather go with this delivery method.

4/02/2006 1:35 AM
Tecumseh said...

And, by the way, a BUFF can still haul some big loads.

Try a little tenderness? You remember that song, JJ?

4/02/2006 1:46 AM
The Darkroom said...

absolutely! it's high time we get the iraqi shiites pissed off too. after this, we should also start thinking of a way to annoy the kurds. the important thing is to keep the eye on the ball.

4/02/2006 6:59 AM
Tecumseh said...

C'est le cas de le dire. Question is, what is the ball to keep an eye on. I'd say the kind that implodes and goes boom is one we should paid attention to, independent of what x, y, or z in the neighborhood thinks.

4/02/2006 9:49 AM
The Darkroom said...

good idea: let's spread out to north korea while we're out democratizing the world and getting rid of wmds.

4/02/2006 5:03 PM
Mr roT said...

Better idea from the bien-pensant? I am waiting.

4/03/2006 1:38 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Tomorrow's meeting will be attended by... Lt Gen Andrew Ridgway, the chief of defence intelligence...

This name triggered something in my brain: I wonder if there's any relation that Andrew has with this fellah.

4/03/2006 12:13 PM

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