OK, so the Syrian air force drops these things – large, light alloy containers stuffed with shrapnel and low explosive, with a canister of much higher explosive in the middle, probably delivered from a helicopter or a tactical airlifter. Here’s an odd historical point. a two gallon drum with a cylinder containing about two pounds…
Read More Hello to all that – Syria, Sudan, and his LordshipI briefly touched on South Sudan’s new instant brewery yesterday. A associated, rather than strictly related, development is this startlingly weird Reuters AlertNet story; OK, so there’s been a riot in a refugee camp in Darfur. Right. People have been killed. Not good. But a riot by people who lost money in an investment fraud?…
Read More Pyramid schemes in DarfurI briefly touched on South Sudan’s new instant brewery yesterday. A associated, rather than strictly related, development is this startlingly weird Reuters AlertNet story; OK, so there’s been a riot in a refugee camp in Darfur. Right. People have been killed. Not good. But a riot by people who lost money in an investment fraud?…
Read More Pyramid schemes in DarfurViktor Bout arrested in Thai hotel room on charges of arming FARC. And I didn’t even know he *was* doing. More, as they say, as we get it. Update: Here’s the pic – it’s obviously him.
Read More We Must Ask You, Please, To Come Quietly, For this Is the Cadogan Hotel…