Israel’s defense ministry is reporting that attacks on Israelis are way down since the irrelevant Yasser Arafat called for an end to violence on December 16.
Entries from December 2001
December 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
December 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
Here’s why nobody has any faith in the government’s ability to get anything done. Congress makes a big deal out of federalizing airport security and upping the job requirements for screeners at security checks in airports, and the first thing the commission created to take on the task does is axe those higher requirements. [...]
December 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
You know what I’d like to see in Afghanistan instead of peacekeeping forces of the traditional kind? A massive liaison effort between civilian and military police officers and the new government and military in Afghanistan. Let’s send a few thousand cops and MPs over to Afghanistan and provide training on how to set [...]
December 30th, 2001 · Comments Off
Remember Special Forces Captain Jason Amerine, who was interviewed for a Washington Post article earlier this month? He also has some quotes in a New York Times article from yesterday. The article discusses the ups and downs of using the Northern Alliance troops as a proxy force on the ground. It also has a [...]
December 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
Not to be outdone by the Washington Post, the New York Times has published its own long story documenting the steps taken to counter terrorism over the past 8 years or so. One of the more interesting things that becomes clear when reading the article is that the Monica Lewinsky scandal was a huge distraction [...]
December 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
Kuro5hin: Two Islamic Soldiers
December 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
Phrack 58 is out. How weird is that?
December 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
CRPM one year later.
December 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
NY Times: The Year in Internet Law
December 29th, 2001 · Comments Off
A quick note on the most recent Osama bin Laden video: in it, bin Laden states that the attacks were intended to force the United States to end its support for Israel. To me, this seems like the most craven sort of political rhetoric there is. As the intensity of the conflict between [...]