Quickhits
(AFP/BBC) Pakistan is bombing Taleban targets in the Swat valley. There are reports of hundreds of thousands of civilian refugees. (I'm always cynical when the Pakistanis "attack" at the same time they're coming to Washington looking for more money.)
(WaPo) The terror watchlist is a nation endangering joke, containing thousands incorrectly and not including current targets of terror investigations.
(AFP) Violent police/protester clashes break out in Tbilisi, Georgia over the ongoing NATO exercises.
(AP) The Blackwater contract in Iraq expires. They mostly leave, but they still have some operations there.
(WaPo) The terror watchlist is a nation endangering joke, containing thousands incorrectly and not including current targets of terror investigations.
(AFP) Violent police/protester clashes break out in Tbilisi, Georgia over the ongoing NATO exercises.
(AP) The Blackwater contract in Iraq expires. They mostly leave, but they still have some operations there.
posted by mikevotes at
7:44 AM
2 Comments:
I believe the watchlist is simply a transparent excuse to detain anyone that may travel by airplane, whether actually suspected or not. It serves a quasi-legal purpose, which is why it persists.
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r8r, at 9:06 AM
I think it's probably multi purpose, being used and abused simultaneously.
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mikevotes, at 10:36 AM
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