The NY Times has just discovered that brutal, homicidal dictators have a lot to fear from the people they oppress: The episode was just one of many incidents, described in a classified United States military report, other documents and in interviews, that demonstrate how Mr. Hussein was so preoccupied about the threat from within his […]

** Major Update Below ** In a clearly one sided piece today the Washington Post runs an article by Charles Babington that decries the tensions in the Senate Intelligence Committee and blames – republicans! How pathetic. Inter-party animosity has simmered since the 1990s, but it heated up when Republicans took steps to limit probes into […]

I wrote a post back in June, the first month of the Strata-Sphere, which predicted the outcome of the Plame Game. I had expressed the same prediction for years on my favorite political forum, The Opinion Forum at Delphi (this should be a ‘guest’ link – if you get an ad skip through to the […]

The wife and I took the six year old twins on a great hike today down a creek (Difficult Run for those who know the area) to the Potomac River below Great Falls and Mather Gorge.  Basically my back yard when I was growing up (and before it was the place for the obscenely wealthy […]

Given the events in Pakistan and Iraq and now Lebanon, it seems there is a push going on to round up a lot of the terrorist cells.  And maybe nab some big names finally. Lebanese security sources revealed Saturday that they discovered a terror network which was responsible for firing rockets at Israel, the Lebanese […]

While we in the US shudder at the thought of rubbing shoulders with Arab businesses, the war on terror is being won in the real danger zone by our military, intelligence, and Arab allies (old and brand spanking new): Insurgent groups in one of Iraq’s most violent provinces claim that they have purged the region […]

Well folks, yesterday was my birthday, but this weekend is the celebration so expect light blogging. It is too beautiful a spring day here in DC to hang around the keyboard. Hopefully everyone get’s a chance to get out, get some fresh air, and put politics away for a few hours (if not days). So […]

Something is definitely brewing in Pakistan it seems. More and more activity in the northern provinces: Karachi, 10 March (AKI) – US surveillance aircraft have begun flights across the tribal belt of North Waziristan which lies on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Tribal sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the flights have been taking place over the […]

Great news out of Iraq as the Sunni’s in there are chasing Al Qaeda out of their provinces: The people of Iraq are rising up against an insurgency bent on derailing democracy in the country, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said today. “The people of Iraq are uniting against the insurgency,” Army Maj. Gen. Rick […]

The Watcher’s Council selection of the best posts for the week are out and here are the results. In the council catefory first place easily went to The Bloody Borders Project by Gates of Vienna, with second place going to From Way Up Here by The Glittering Eye. In the non council category first place […]