Bob Morris @ Sep 28th 2004 08:43 - Category: Unfiled ;
Nigerian rebels vow “all-out war” starting Friday
The Nigerian rebel group fighting government troops in the oil-rich Niger Delta said it would launch “all-out war on the Nigerian state” Friday and advised oil companies to shut down production by then.
The above was buried deep in the LA Times this morning, while their major story on soaring oil prices didn’t mention this threat at all, how odd.
Bob Morris @ Sep 28th 2004 08:42 - Category: Unfiled ;
Insurgents are killing and kidnapping government officials, police and Iraqi national guard members in an apparent campaign to destabilize this city, the capital of Sunni Muslim-dominated Al Anbar province west of Baghdad.
The apparent aim is to make Ramadi into an ungovernable area like neighboring Fallouja, where insurgents have free rein. Ramadi and Fallouja represent 70% of Al Anbar’s population, according to U.S. estimates.
“Ungovernable?” A better phrase would be, “out of US control”
And who are the insurgents?
Insurgents are mostly Iraqis, U.S. Military says
Gee, Didn’t Dubya and the Iraqi puppet government tell us the insurgents were outside agitators who had snuck across the border? The US military now says that just ain’t so.
“They say these guys are flowing across [the border] and fomenting all this violence. We don’t think so,” said a senior military official in Baghdad. “What’s the main threat? It’s internal.”
People whose country is invaded will fight like banshees to defend it, something that should come as absolutely no surprise at all to anyone.
Bob Morris @ Sep 28th 2004 08:39 - Category: Unfiled ;
His attorney is Bruce Cutler, who is so fearsome and relentless in court that prosecution lawyers, reeling from his attacks, have calling it being “Bruceified.”
Cutler got Mafia boss John Gotti off several serious charges. The government only managed a conviction against Gotti after forcing the removal of Cutler as Gotti’s lawyer.
Spector’s trial will be a knock-down drag-out, no-mercy affair.
Bob Morris @ Sep 28th 2004 00:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
From my friends at the excellent Crooks and Liars, comes the new Politnix single, “Shut Up!” You got it, it’s about Bill O’Reilly, and features lots of samples of him screaming “shut up.” When the Politnix aren’t blogging, they are pro musicians, and this is a great, catchy song. Randi Rhodes has already played it on Air America. Listen to it now!
Bob Morris @ Sep 28th 2004 00:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
Jimmy Carter predicts serious Florida vote problems
Voting arrangements in Florida do not meet “basic international requirements” and could undermine the US election, former US President Jimmy Carter says.
He said a repeat of the irregularities of the much-disputed 2000 election - which gave President George W Bush the narrowest of wins - “seems likely”.
Mr Carter, a veteran observer of polls worldwide, also accused Florida’s top election official of “bias”.
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