Doug Farah reports on some developments regarding Viktor Bout in the Bosnian War. Now, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear he was involved – in fact, it would have been very strange if he wasn’t. And his ability to deal with all sides in a conflict is shown in Afghanistan and Angola. But…
Read More Farah Has Some Viktor Bout NewsTYR has covered several stories from the Ivory Coast’s conflict, really because it seems to me that it’s a kind of war that marks out our times. Remember the Ivorian air force and its drones and complete Israeli-run phonetapping centre? After the Ivorian leadership relaunched their war with an airstrike on inconvenient French peacekeepers (flown…
Read More Today’s Way of War: The Market in AbidjanIn a issue I’ve been meaning to bloggify, a Conservative councillor in Lyneham, Wiltshire, one Allison Bucknall, has been seeking an Anti-Social Behaviour Order against a web site on the grounds that “people looking for information might go there first”. Instead of what? I always thought Conservatives believed in free competition. It seems there is…
Read More More Asbo insanitySorry there’s been light blogging again. I’ve been in Globostan for the last couple of days, a land composed of airliners, airports, taxis, hotels where they show Bloomberg market reports in the bar-is nothing, nothing sacred?-and Scandinavian telecoms executives who look like Sven Goran Eriksson’s geeky older brother. Except for the guys from TELE-Greenland, who…
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