Map for today
Today’s lunchtime situation map is here. Google Earth KMZ file. Please note that this one includes corrections and supersedes yesterday’s.
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Improved maps
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Google Erf users can be delighted by yet another updated situation map.
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Is here. Correct at 1200BST. Google Erf KMZ file.
Read More Today’s lunchtime mapGet your fresh overlays here
If you liked this post, you’ll love the Google Earth KMZ overlay. See where those places are on the satellite photos. Understand my nonsensical ravings. Details are accurate as of 1330 hours today.
Read More Get your fresh overlays hereHave you seen this aeroplane?
Associated Press reports on the arrival of only the second aircraft at Mogadishu since the civil war broke out, allegedly with a cargo of armaments for the new rulers, the Islamic Courts Union, to fight the Ethiopians. There’s a photo, too… The aircraft is a no-title Ilyushin 76 which according to AP was registered in…
Read More Have you seen this aeroplane?Right flank
Jamie K thinks the UNTSO post was bombed to prevent them observing a possible Israeli flank movement from the northern tip of the country, around Kiryat Shmona, down the Litani valley to the sea, with hopes of cutting off the retreat, which means going further into Lebanon. He quotes me, in comments, suggesting that this…
Read More Right flankAnother dip in the quagmire
It seems that, after a week’s bombing to get in the mood, the Israeli army is going back into southern Lebanon. What are they trying to achieve? A question that could have been asked all week, but one that gains force with this escalation. Everyone’s talking about either “clearing a one-mile strip” along the border…
Read More Another dip in the quagmireRichards: “Accept more risk”
Asked about last week’s fuckup, General Richards says NATO drivers will “accept more risk” in order to avoid accidents like the one that set off a riot, and that he aims to be “a very people focused and a very people-friendly force,” and “use military power not necessarily just to defeat the Taleban but just…
Read More Richards: “Accept more risk”The black economy, yet again
Hugely detailed NYT report on the subversion of the Iraqi oil industry and the insurgent management of its production. Apparently, the supply of crude oil from the northern fields is permitted to reach precisely the capacity of the Baiji refinery, as any more would be exported. Exports are valuable to the government, and stolen crude…
Read More The black economy, yet again