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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Picture of the Day - 5

















Baghdad today. (AFP/Ali al-Saadi)

4 Comments:

  • By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:53 AM  

  • I don't know about that, they may well be working for Shia politicians, or Sunni politicians, or smuggler/gangsters. I just don't know.

    But two data points I would add thight might support that contention.

    I would highly recommend looking back at the discussion of "The Salvador option" of the US training death squads.

    http://bornatthecrestoftheempire.blogspot.com/2005/11/salvador-option-death-squads-in-iraq.html

    and, Dahr Jamial's recent report about the US hiring militias in Anbar from the tribal leaders to fight Al Qaeda/"foreigners".

    http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000472.php#more

    (I'll cross post this as a comment on your post as well, if I can. (I've always had trouble commenting on your site. Firefox?)

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:32 AM  

  • I got your comment, but it would seem it got "killed" by my spaminator, and from what I can read, it's due to "url dashes"?! Lol?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:39 AM  

  • Okay, but you got the message. That's my concern.

    Some time ago, I tried several comments, but eventually just gave up trying.

    (They were just text.)

    (And the spam filter response is new. I used to just get a non-specific error.)

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:49 AM  

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