Quickhits
Just a bunch of stuff I couldn't fit anywhere else.
(AP) A $50,000 reward is being offered for information that helps locate the US soldier/translator that was kidnapped almost three weeks ago. (That doesn't sound like much, does it.)
(AP) The Pentagon is drawing up plans to exceed existing rules to send National Guard Units back to Iraq for a second tour.
(Reuters/IRIN) Karbala is refusing to take anymore refugees. 50,000 people are living in tents in a makeshift camp in the city's main park.
(NYTimes) Senior US military officers in Afghanistan have all said, anonymously, “Every single bomber or I.E.D. in one way or another is linked to Pakistan.”
(AP) Chad declares a state of emergency as the ethnic/religious violence from Sudan/Darfur is spills over.
(AP) A $50,000 reward is being offered for information that helps locate the US soldier/translator that was kidnapped almost three weeks ago. (That doesn't sound like much, does it.)
(AP) The Pentagon is drawing up plans to exceed existing rules to send National Guard Units back to Iraq for a second tour.
(Reuters/IRIN) Karbala is refusing to take anymore refugees. 50,000 people are living in tents in a makeshift camp in the city's main park.
(NYTimes) Senior US military officers in Afghanistan have all said, anonymously, “Every single bomber or I.E.D. in one way or another is linked to Pakistan.”
(AP) Chad declares a state of emergency as the ethnic/religious violence from Sudan/Darfur is spills over.
posted by mikevotes at
1:26 PM
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Chad declares a state of emergency as the ethnic/religious violence from Sudan/Darfur is spills over.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch.
This would be front page in another point in history.
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Praguetwin, at 5:19 PM
Probably not here in the US. It is Africa, and there isn't an American reporter stationed south of Egypt or north of South Africa.
I agree it should because the region stretching from Chad to Eritrea to southern Somalia is entering a regional war with Islamic militants holding the upper hand getting funding and support from Egypt and Saudi. We're about to have a thousand mile Afghanistan, but it's Africa, so no coverage.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 6:02 PM
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