Day October 9, 2006

CIA warned of Posada plane bomb plot

An anti-Castro militant now in a Texas jail warned the CIA months before the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that fellow exiles were planning such an attack, according to a newly released U.S. government document. And wouldn’t you know,…

NK nuke may have been a dud

There’s been no official confirmation from any source I’ve seen that the NK test was a nuke and successful. Some say it was a dud. So how it is that Pakistan can have nukes, the US wants India to have…

The Departed

Go see it. It’s bloody and violent, yet engrossing too. The plot is beyond noir. “No one here gets out alive.” Not sure what the point is, but it’s a movie that fits our bleak, savage times, that’s for sure.

NY Times on Posada Carriles

“Castro foe puts U.S. in an awkward spot”“Awkward?” Posada has boasted of blowing up a Cuban plane, killing 73 civilians. He has unquestioned CIA ties. The US is refusing to extradite him to Venezuela even though they are legally obligated…