Daily Archives: March 18th, 2006 «

 

Hooded Iraqi in photo: the NYT got it wrong

Posted by: ST on March 18, 2006 at 11:41 pm » 17 Comments

Earlier this week I blogged about the speculation that the Iraqi featured in this NYTimes story (using the CommonDreams reprint link because the direct link to the NYT story is no longer free to access) who identified himself as the man who was photographed hooded and standing atop the box during the Abu Ghraib prisoner [...]

 

Saddam’s Philippines terror connection

Posted by: ST on March 18, 2006 at 11:13 pm » 9 Comments

Via Stephen Hayes: SADDAM HUSSEIN’S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry [...]

 

AP dropping any pretense of objectivity

Posted by: ST on March 18, 2006 at 10:52 pm » 15 Comments

Did you happen to catch this AP headline and story earlier today? Bush Using Straw-Man Arguments in Speeches Story: WASHINGTON – “Some look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that the war is lost and not worth another dime or another day,” President Bush said recently. Another time he said, “Some say that if [...]

 

College basketball tourney fever

Posted by: ST on March 18, 2006 at 3:35 pm » 1 Comment

Catchin’ some tourney action today … be back later tonight to catch up on some blogging

 

Have a blog on Blogger/Blogspot?

Posted by: ST on March 18, 2006 at 8:19 am » 6 Comments

After reading the experience Betsy Newmark went through after her blog went down for four days, and after reading that something similar happened to Jason at Generation Why? (who has his own domain now), I encourage anyone with a blog at Blogger/Blogspot to do a backup of their site and get a domain with hosting [...]