IRA poised to ‘end operations’

One of the longest, deadliest, bloodiest guerilla operations on the planet may soon be ending peacefully.

Have they been fighting for 80 years? Or for 300 years? Depends how you count it. The IRA invented urban terrorism. If you can’t fight them head on, then blow them up and assassinate them. No one until the IRA in 1917 had done that on an organized basis in an urban setting, and it was a devastatingly successful tactic. So much so that their tactics were studied and adopted by many other liberation / terrorist groups.

Now, in a world about to go mad with war, the IRA appears ready to disarm completely.

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I am NOT making this up…

“Regent U. Settles with “Demonic” Student.

In what is sure to be a first for an ABA-accredited law school, Regent University has settled a lawsuit over wrongful suspension for demonic possession.” [Political State Report]

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Hip hop: The Iron Sheik sez “Don’t bomb Iraq”

Listen to it.

Then check out Israeli Palestinian rap from MWR

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Talking Turkey

Drat those uppity Turks. How dare their parliament vote against King George the Mad’s desire to station hundreds of thousands of troops in their country simply because 90% of Turkish citizens oppose an Iraq war.

The Brits say the answer is simple, raise the amounts of the bribes. What a refreshingly straightforward approach.

“But Britain remains confident that Turkey will eventually come on board. “I suppose there will have to be a few more noughts added to the cheque,” one Whitehall source said. “Every man has his price.”

Lest any think this setback will slow down King George’s mad dash to war, fear not, he will not be letting reality intrude.

“But no one at the White House suggests — either on the record or off — that Mr. Bush will be deterred for a moment by the prospect that the military will not be able to divide Mr. Hussein’s forces along two borders, north and south.

“There is apprehension but no panic,” one senior official said today.

“There’s a Plan B,” the official said. “It’s messier. It’s more complicated. But it’s not likely to slow the president.”

As for those blasted French who are threatening to veto a UN resolution of war.

“Even if France vetoes a new United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq, America would still wage war against Saddam Hussein, <Richard Perle> a top Pentagon adviser was quoted as saying Sunday.”

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The just captured al Qaeda leader was killed last year!

Huh, you say?

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Most ignored news story last week

“Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein’s inner circle, told CIA and British intelligence officers and U.N. inspectors in the summer of 1995 that after the gulf war, Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them.”

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