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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Quickhits

(WaPo/AP) The GAO digs into all the money given to Pakistan to "fight terror" and finds that billions were wasted, misallocated or simply disappeared. (Graft in Pakistan? Who could have forseen...)

(AFP) Pro-Taliban militants have killed 22 pro-government tribal elders who were kidnapped a day earlier in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan (They were part of the peace jirga.)

(NYTimes) 3 US soldiers were killed by a bomb in Mosul.(Sunni)

(AP) Two US soldiers and two US contractors were killed yesterday in an explosion in Sadr. City. (Shia)

(AFP) A car bomb attack in northern Iraq's restive city of Mosul has wounded at least 90 civilians...

2 Comments:

  • OK. I forget... Who's the enemy and how do we "win?"

    By Blogger -epm, at 10:02 AM  

  • But see, with a flexible enemy, we're always winning. It's all very Orwellian.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 11:07 AM  

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