Category: World

This should make all Iraqis proud:

FALLUJAH, Iraq — Insurgents here staged simultaneous morning assaults on three police stations, a civil defense base and the mayor’s office Saturday in what one Iraqi military leader called a “well-coordinated and well-financed attack.”

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Officers from the 82nd Airborne Division stationed a 10-minute drive away could hear the battle clearly. They offered help but Hammad [the Iraqi Civil Defence Force battalion commander] said it wasn’t needed. The Americans did provide additional ammunition and weapons, including light machine guns.

As Wretchard says: “When dying and bleeding, beset by the flower of terrorism, with pistol to set against automatic rifle and grenade, the Iraqi police did not ask for help from 82nd Airborne. They asked for ammunition.”

From the Christian Science Monitor:

Alcatel, the telecommunications equipment giant, said it will merge its optical fiber business with Draka Holding NV, which operates companies involved in producing and selling low-voltage and special-purpose cable systems. Analysts said the move will pose a direct challenge to Corning Inc. of the US, the world leader in fiber-optic cable. Alcatel is based in Paris; Draka in Amsterdam.

I guess Gwen Mk II is starting to make her play. A few megatons ought to teach her better, though.

“If Saddam isn’t stopped now, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destructiveness. And someday, someday, I guarantee you, he’ll use that arsenal.”

    — William Jefferson Clinton, 1998

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