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- To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla... |
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- Apple has released Security Update 2003-11-04 for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. According to Apple, the patch "ddresses a potential vulnerability with the Terminal application in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10. |
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- W, America's great savior, doesn't even have the guts to let us see the dead returning from Iraq. Here is a link to a must-read article from the Toronto Star, demonstrating the duplicity and vileness of W and his handlers in their treatment of the brave and self-sacrificing soldiers who die for their pursuit of world domination: Toronto Star: Bush--A Coward is as a Coward Does And here is an excerpt: Charles H. |
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clearly (Nov 04 2003 23:58 GMT) - i need a new plan.... |
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- US Ambassador to Egypt David Welch has been criticizing the Egyptian press for their antisemitic and anti-American hatred. In response, Egypt's government-controlled media launched a series of vicious attacks against ... |
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- Una de las mayores compañías desarrolladoras de Linux del mundo, la alemana Suse Linux, ha sido comprada el día de hoy por Novell. www.diarioti.com |
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- ...Halo: Combat Evolved has finally hit the PC courtesy of a console port by the guys at Gearbox. It brings with it a whole bunch of fun, action anda range of performance issues? Oh well, nobody said being a PC gamer was easy. Slip into your mechanized suit as within these pages I provide you with all the resources necessary to get Halo running the fastest it possibly can on your PC. |
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Update (Nov 04 2003 23:57 GMT) - 13,904 steps yesterday. And, um, it's cold in Minnesota.... |
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- Leading international law news on Monday, Britain's Finance Minister, Gordon Brown, says the draft EU Constitution could undermine economic policy control for each EU member country's government. Mr. Brown worries that the current draft will strip member |
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faking it (Nov 04 2003 23:57 GMT) - Wired: machines learn to mimic speech "among the useful products on display was speech technology for ATMs that allows visually... |
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- I really like the shared-prong emerald eternity band from Primak. |
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- Well, I'd rather be buried and gradually turn into a tree |
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- Hoe goed ken jij de wereld van de sterren eigenlijk? |
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- Anti-war activist charged for 'misusing phone' to protest to US An Auckland peace activist who sent an e-mail to the US Embassy objecting to the war on Iraq has been charged by New Zealand police with misuse of a telephone. The suspect, Bruce Hubbard, last night said he had been charged under the Telecommunications Act and had been told by police they would seize information from his computer under the Counter-Terrorism Act. |
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- I saw this on Debka yesterday. Now FoxNews is reporting it: An Al Qaeda Web site is running a warning issued to Muslims to leave Washington D.C., New York City and Los Angeles because of implied imminent terrorist attacks, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. |
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- Execs, U.N. show support for Cuba An unlikely union of U.S. business executives and farmers as well as 179 diplomats from across the globe delivered a double setback this week to President Bushs push to stiffen the trade embargo on Cuba. |
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- IAEA finds new nuclear safeguard breaches in Iran The UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, will report at a key meeting later this month that Iran has failed to honor some international nuclear safeguards, the director was quoted as saying. |
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- PA makes more arrests in US convoy attack case Palestinian Authority officials said Tuesday that two Palestinians have been arrested in connection with the attack on the US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip on October 14. |
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- Iranian journalists accuse US troops in Iraq of torturing them Two Iranian journalists with state-run television who were freed yesterday by US forces in Iraq after four months in detention have charged they were subjected to severe torture while in American custody. They did not elaborate on the allegation of torture, which the coalition spokesman in Iraq rejected out of hand saying: The coalition does not mistreat anyone in its custody full stop. |
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- Annan sets up review of UN's global role Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, on Tuesday entrusted a new 16-member group with a far-reaching review of the role of the United Nations in an attempt to drag the post-war multilateral security order into the 21st century. |
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- Furor Over Anti-Semitism Leads to German Officer's Firing The commander of an elite German special forces army unit was dismissed today after he praised a conservative parliamentarian for a speech that has been widely criticized here as anti-Semitic. Check this BB thread for comments and analysis. Hat tips to Marek and shual for keeping up with the German press on this. |
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- Spy chief: Frenchman planned harm Australia's chief spy has said French al Qaeda suspect Willy Brigitte, deported last month and now in custody in Paris, was almost certainly involved in planning a terror attack in Australia. |
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- British soldier killed in Iraq A British soldier has been killed in Iraq, the British Ministry of Defense told CNN on Tuesday. The victim, Royal Marine Cpl. Ian Plank, 31, was killed by hostile fire during a coalition operation Friday, but his death was not confirmed until Tuesday because of operational concerns, an MOD spokeswoman said. |
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- Al-Qaeda hatched "evil'' plot to kill pilgrims at Mecca: minister Al-Qaeda fighters hatched an "evil'' plot to kill pilgrims in the holy city of Mecca during Ramadan, the Saudi Interior Minister said in an interview published a day after security forces shot dead two "terrorists''. All eight members of an Islamist cell smashed in Mecca on Monday were from the Al-Qaeda network run by Saudi-born terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz told Tuesday's Al-Riyadh newspaper. |
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- Death toll rises in Indonesian flooding On Tuesday, rescuers said that 80 people had been killed and that another 123 were missing in a flash flood in Indonesia. Some reports now suggest that the death toll could reach 170. |
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- Iraqi Court Convicts Former Governor Iraq's Central Criminal Court has convicted the former governor of the southern province of Najaf to 14 years in prison for corruption, the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority said Tuesday. ed: this governor had been appointed by the CPA and then was removed by the CPA when his rule quickly became corrupt |
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- Newspaper prints names of 147 Qaeda suspects The Saudi Arabian pan-Arab daily Al Hayat published Sunday the names and countries of origin of 147 suspected members of the Al Qaeda terror network and the Taliban Islamic military who were extradited by Iran in October. Meanwhile, a Pakistani Interior Ministry spokesman has contradicted this report and anonymous "Saudi official sources" have said that Tehran and Riyadh are negotiating the repatriation of Saudi Al-Qaeda members. |
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- Spain pulling some staff from Baghdad -foreign min Spain, one of Washington's closest allies in Iraq, is withdrawing some of its embassy staff from Baghdad, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, 58 of the 200 Senators in Thailand's Parliament Tuesday signed in a letter to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, asking the government to withdraw Thai troops from Iraq immediately. |
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