[Iraqi Information Minister] Al-Sahhaf suggested that any captured U.S. and British soldiers may not be treated as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. Al-Sahhaf said Iraq was considering how to treat them. ``Those are mercenaries. Most probably they will be treated as mercenaries, hirelings and as war criminals. ... For sure, international law does not apply to those,'' he said.I haven't yet heard people suggest that is our own fault for detaining illegal combatants.
posted by Biggie
at 2:50 PM
More Ad Theory:
Huh?
posted by Biggie
at 1:58 PM
I saw this advertisement on
DEBKAfile. It is NOT funny, right?
posted by K-Dawg
at 12:03 PM
From the Israeli news site, DEBKAfile:
Kurdish sources confirm that Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz is in their hands and is being questioned by US intelligence officials.
Earlier, as American and British forces began invasion of Iraq, DEBKAfile’s military sources reported persistent rumor that two leading powerbrokers of Saddam’s regime had fled Baghdad: deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, who is thought to be hiding in Kurdistan in northern Iraq, and vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan who has not been seen for three days.
Reuters refutes this convincingly.
posted by Biggie
at 8:06 AM
Christopher Hitchens says
Bush is bored.
THE attitude, body-language and tone of the President last Thursday night managed to convey in a passive form what many of his aides are thinking in an active fashion.
He looked - to the evident alarm of the TV critics - as if he was becoming dangerously bored with the whole argument about Iraq.
How tedious it is to have to say all of this, in ABC fashion, again. How dull to be compelled to act polite, to reiterate the obvious, and to remember that he is speaking to a global audience as well as a local one.
And yet how satisfying, if one has so often been teased for being stupid, to state a case that has been learned by heart and that hasn't yet been mastered even by one's most show-off fellow pupils.
(Yes teacher, Resolution 1441 means what it says and contains the clauses of its own enforcement. No teacher, we don't assume that we are dealing with Belgium or Luxembourg here. Some presumption of past and future guilt is pardonable when talking of Saddam Hussein)
A little something for the French-bashers. . .
That was when the suave Dominique de Villepin said that France's real worry was that "American boys" would get killed in Iraq. There is, after all, a limit to the amount of condescension that can be borne.
President Bush has seen American GIRLS fly tough combat missions over Afghanistan with great success (and what woman would want to parachute down among the Taliban in case of a mishap?) and he's had enough of this hogwash.
Christopher Hitchens is dreamy.
posted by K-Dawg
at 7:58 AM
What happens when you combine Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe?
The Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral. At Grameen Bank, credit is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the overall development of socio-economic.
As of September, 2002, it has 2.4 million borrowers, 95 percent of whom are women. With 1,175 branches, GB provides services in 41,000 villages, covering more than 60 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh.
posted by Biggie
at 10:45 AM
Predicting the economy is difficult. That's why you've got to be a
total stud.
posted by Biggie
at 12:54 PM
A while back, they needed a logo for the Total Information Awareness System at DARPA. ("We created the Internet.") For three nanoseconds, this was there choice:
The government will claim this is merely based on the Great Seal and not totally creepy. However, despite what some might insist, rumors persist to the contrary. I'm just gald they didn't choose this design.
posted by Biggie
at 8:31 AM
