Quickhits
(AP, Reuters, Guardian.) The Taleban are digging in among the villages around Kandahar, planting mines, destroying bridges, people are fleeing. Eventually they'll be pushed out, and then they'll come back. (I know they were talking about deploying US Marines to "back" the British into next year. Have some already come into Kandahar?)
(AFP, BBC) The British mercenary/arms dealer Simon Mann goes on trial over that weird Equatorial Guinea coup plot that fell apart when a plane of his mercenaries was stopped in Zimbabwe. Mann admits involvement, but says he wasn't the ringleader.
(AP) US military lawyers were warning back in 2002 that "harsh interrogation tactics" were likely illegal. ("Details... were to be discussed at an open committee hearing Tuesday.")
The WaPo has a frontpager on this.
(Reuters) The Turks claim to kill 21 PKK attempting to cross the border.
(AP) After Bush's trip, some in Europe are talking about increasing sanctions against Iran (including the oil and gas sector?)
But, (Reuters) Iran says it will not give up enrichment.
(AFP, BBC) The British mercenary/arms dealer Simon Mann goes on trial over that weird Equatorial Guinea coup plot that fell apart when a plane of his mercenaries was stopped in Zimbabwe. Mann admits involvement, but says he wasn't the ringleader.
(AP) US military lawyers were warning back in 2002 that "harsh interrogation tactics" were likely illegal. ("Details... were to be discussed at an open committee hearing Tuesday.")
The WaPo has a frontpager on this.
(Reuters) The Turks claim to kill 21 PKK attempting to cross the border.
(AP) After Bush's trip, some in Europe are talking about increasing sanctions against Iran (including the oil and gas sector?)
But, (Reuters) Iran says it will not give up enrichment.
posted by mikevotes at
7:01 AM
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(Think Progress) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made 22 trips to Israel during the Bush administration, including this past weekend. Yet as Time’s Jerusalem Bureau Chief Tim McGirk notes, “[S]he has little to show for it.” There was “no fanfare, no motorcades snarling up the city’s traffic,” and she couldn’t even book a room at her usual hotel, having to settle for a “less grand” one. Israeli TV announcers have even “coined her name as a verb, meaning to go endlessly around in circles, accomplishing nothing.”
Wow.
My guess is the world is holding their breath for the next 200-odd days and will breath a collective sigh of relief next January when a new president takes the oath of office.
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-epm, at 11:35 AM
That's pretty funny.
Also add to it that today Israel and Hamas announced a negotiated ceasefire.
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mikevotes, at 1:18 PM
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