March 2006

No.3 official at the CIA under investigation over ties with Brent Wilkes and the Randall Cunningham corruption scandal. Laura Rozen hears from a “source”: And what were the forthcoming contracts for? According to a source, they were to create and run a secret plane network, for whatever needs the CIA has for secret fleets of…

Right, another go to get 3C-QRF seized… Soj is going for the Romanian Ministry of Transport. Post mirrored.. This is the text in Romanian language. If you want to participate, copy this: Domnul Ministru Gheorghe Dobru, Va scriem pentru a va informa cu respect despre existenta aeronavei model BAC-111, cu numarul de inregistrare 3C-QRF, cu…

This is a test. Note – this post was because Blogger/Blogspot had a serious serverfart all afternoon.

Since the night before Christmas, a huge container ship has been hard aground outside the Mexican port of Ensenada. The MV APL Panama, 52,000 tonnes plus an estimated 30,000 tonnes of cargo, drove at speed into a beach after the captain unwisely dispensed with the services of a harbour pilot. She is estimated to be…

Reuters DeathNet reports on the surging price of guns in Iraq. Apparently a Tariq (a locally made automatic pistol) used to go for $150 in 2003, now selling for $600. An AK-47, meanwhile, was yours for $50 in the good old days. Now you could shell out up to $350 for a Russian-made one (the…

Martin Geddes has a picture of a BT local telephone exchange (central office for yanks) in Cherry Hinton near Cambridge. His point is that all the kit that once went in the building is now in a small green metal box just outside it. My point is that the building is a fine example of…

From the Sharjah Airport online arrivals boards: 05-Mar 10:24 Kabul Flying Dolphin Airlines FDN 612 Estimated : 10:24 Flying Dolphin Airlines is an original-gangster Viktor Bout operation that officially doesn’t exist any more, having been reorganised into the supposedly legit “Dolphin Air”. FDN is on the UNSCR 1532 blacklist, unlike Dolphin Air, and here it…

TYR is the top result on MSNSearch for “leone the penis sucker”. Search request received at 0644Z, 05/03/06, from someone in Aussie ISP BigPond’s Victoria state ADSL pool.

..all events reported on this blog actually happened in reality. Not so on belarustoday.blogspot.com, which bears the enigmatic warning: This website is part of a foreign policy simulation. The events depicted are not actually taking place. It’s all the work of some bunch of political science wonks doing a scenario planning exercise. Apparently they wanted…

Enter the backup. The USAF is quietly deploying AC-130U gunships to Al-Udeid AFB in Iraq. Apparently it was a secret until an AP reporter spotted one of them on the ground and noticed it was no ordinary C130. This is a clear sign that someone’s expecting big trouble. Edit: Looking at the story again, I…