“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”
There are times when being a gorilla is a pest. You try running around the place on your knuckles for more than 40 years. You wind up with stumpy little fingers that bash the wrong key on this pathetically tiny and inadequate keyboard. Add to that the fact that I’d momentarily forgotten that the software […]
I blogged briefly about the demonstration held to protest the abduction of the national junior Taekwondo team back on May 25th. It’s hard to explain to people the tremendous courage showing up for that demonstration took. Look at the photo, these are kids, look at the determination on their faces. That’s courage.
There’s been rumour […]
There’s often a lot of confusion about whether something is or is not permitted under the laws of war. During any war the terms “war crime” and “attrocity” are flung around with abandon by all concerned. Often the answer to whether a particular incident was or was not legal under the laws of war is […]
Al-Mahmudiyah has been subjected to numerous attacks. in particular attacks upon its busy market, which generates much of the town’s income. In this photo a civilian injured in today’s attack on Al-Mahmudiyah market is seen arriving for treatment at the local hospital. Al-Mahmudiyah is a large agricultural village (or small town depending on who you’re […]
Major hat tip and thanks to commenter Floda at Today in Iraq for jogging my memory she linked to this story from the UK “Times” about the new counterinsurgency manual being prepared by the US army, a leaked copy of which you can get here. I’ve no idea why one or other of us hasn’t […]
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